[ncolug] Re: diary of VM progress
- From: larry <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:44:46 -0400
There is no 64-bit.
M. Knisely wrote:
Larry, check the vmware site. There are some Ubuntu 6.06 machines
that are pre-built. I'd give one of them a shot as I believe that
they have been optimized for vmware.
I think that there is some sort of display driver specifically for
vmware linux installs.
Mike K.
larry wrote:
Tuesday
Finished installing Ubuntu host, was waiting for a choice of "server
install" which never came, I guess 64-bit doesn't have it. No package
selection either. About the only thing it asks you is the username. I
kept it down to 40GB + 1GB swap, as all it will be doing is running
VMWare.
I got started with VMWare, and saw that I needed kernel headers for
the running kernel, (and a compiler,) which is when I noticed that
the kernel was just "AMD64-generic." I also figured out that Opterons
are still considered K8.
I looked at what else was available, and upgraded it to
2.6.15-24-K8-smp, and got the headers for that, as well as GCC.
Oddly, when I boot, I don't see a kernel choice in grub, but the new
one is running. Kernel log shows both CPU's humming away. (4268
BogoMIPS)
VMWare installed "perfectly." I created a 60GB virtual machine for
another Ubuntu-64, the one I will "really" use. I also just learned
that I am not limited to "64-bit machines." (I only have a 32-bit
Vista.)
I gave Ubuntu both processors and a gigabyte of RAM.
Wednesday
Had a problem running the vm console - could not run it unless root,
but then it couldn't find it's settings. One quick trip to the
knowledge base solved it, by running a chown on the stuff in my
normal user's home. Disabled the floppy in the vm to get rid of
errors, as there is no actual floppy.
Installing Ubuntu in the vm took almost an hour, compared to 10
minutes normally. Something is wrong. The finished install is also
running in slow motion. I was able to install the tools, but that
didn't make any difference. I will try dropping it down to 1
processor/512 like it defaulted to.
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