I've surely done something wrong. I just don't know what.
I'm using vmware-player-1.0.1.19317-r7, and I have run the configuration script to enable all forms of networking. Further, I'm running the Minix virtual machine from the web page. At school where I teach, this VM works fine under Fedora Core 5. Here, I cannot get a floppy to work either as /dev/fd0 nor as a file. I also cannot get internet stuff to work. Floppy always reports I/O errors: an interrupt times out. The floppy is /dev/fd0 and works under Gentoo. Internet fails to get a host IP. Gentoo reports vmnet1 and vmnet8 are up. "Here" is a dual-Xeon running Gentoo, all stable packages. SO: Minix cannot contact the outside world by floppy or by internet. Not helpful. I get this message every time I start VMplayer: /opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer: /opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) Here's the current dos.vmx from my Minix VM: #!/usr/bin/vmware config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "4" scsi0.present = "TRUE" memsize = "256" ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "MS-DOS.vmdk" ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect" ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" floppy0.present = "TRUE" floppy0.filename="/dev/fd0" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "es1371" displayName = "minix311_256MB" guestOS = "dos" nvram = "dos.nvram" ide0:0.redo = "" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" uuid.location = "56 4d 3c 4b 84 8a 77 ec-f5 77 6f 48 1e df 00 ba" uuid.bios = "56 4d 40 49 f2 95 6a cc-99 15 43 3f c6 d5 f3 35" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d5:f3:35" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE" ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" checkpoint.vmState = "" tools.remindInstall = "TRUE" -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
