Fedora Core 5 on VMWare 5.5

Fedora Core 5 was released yesterday, I attempted to upgrade my existing Fedora Core 4 installation in VMWare Workstation 5.5.0 and encountered a problem.
Fedora isn’t automatically detecting the VMWare SCSI device, it presents a warning that there were no hard drives were detected. I found you can resolve this by manually adding the BusLogic device during setup.
See the following sequence of screenshots.
1. Default Boot Screen

2. Warning Message “No hard drives have been found.”

3. List of Automatically Detected Devices

4. Manually Selecting the “BusLogic MultiMaster SCSI” Driver

5. List of Detected Devices now including the BusLogic Driver

After doing this everything installed normally, Good Luck!!

Comments

68 responses to “Fedora Core 5 on VMWare 5.5”

Planet Malaysia

2006-03-21

why my fc5 download so slow? TOO BAD!

Michael Cutler

2006-03-21

Try downloading it using BitTorrent, the torrents for it are at http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/. There are more than 200 seeders for each of the DVD ISO’s … I am one of them at the moment.
😉

Critter

2006-03-21

Funny you just posted this. I have been attempting all morning to get it installed on my copy of VMWare. It was a no go everytime, until I “built” the machine using using custom settings. I must have chosen the buslogic (lucky guess), and it is installing fine as I type. Good to know why.
Thanks

Chris

2006-03-29

I’ve also been working all morning trying to figure out why my VM hardware was not working for Fedora. Thanks a lot. Good Luck.

Andrea

2006-03-30

Thank you very much for your solution, i had the same problem but now work it !!
chers !

Ally

2006-04-01

Cheers, much appreciated that you put this solution up. Likely saved me hours of work, found your article straight away.

John

2006-04-03

Thank You very much. Help me out alot. 🙂

Tony Antonucci

2006-04-04

Your the man. I was just about to resort to Core 4, when I found your solution. I am in the middle of Core 5 install as we speak.

Dag

2006-04-09

Have you been able to install vmware tools on fc5?

Andrew

2006-04-10

I had a problem installing Fedora 5 on VMWare, found this site, problem gone – thankyou 🙂

Alejandro

2006-04-11

Hi, I was also trying to install Fedora C5 in VMWare5, but no success, until I found this – Thanks for the information.

FIlip

2006-04-14

Thanx a lot. It hepled!

Paul C

2006-04-15

ditto. thanks ^_^

tomling

2006-04-17

Thanks, helped a lot.

Grant

2006-04-21

Thanks for the info!!

BMAN

2006-04-21

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for.

denis

2006-04-22

FC5 Install OK, But cannot boot
VMware 4.5, upgrading FC3 to FC5
With is procedure the Fc5 installation goees fine. But then FC5 does boot:
No volume groups found
Unable to find volume group “VolGroup00”
unable to access sesume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mont: could not find filesystem ‘/dev/root’
….
Kernel panic – not syncing: ….
what I did:
1) use linux rescue, again select buslogic, it mounts properly my system on /mnt/sysimage
chroot /mnt/sysimage
add in /etc/modprobe.conf
alias scsi-hostadapter1 mptspi
alias scsi-hostadapter mptsi
rebuild kernel
modify grub.conf
#boot=/dev/sda
…
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title fedora Core (2.6.15-prep)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-prep ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb hdc=ide-scsi quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-prep.img
2) I also added in the vmware configuration file
scsi.0.virtualDev = “buslogic”
no success yet …
thank’s for your help

denis

2006-04-23

Finally …
I recompiled the kernel again, but moving the buslogic and a few other modules to the kernel core … and it boot now
Is it that I upgraded 3-> 5, but many applications are now correctely installed:
up2date, package updater package installer even nedit does not find a library …. well i’ll solve these issues, but
FC5 is not up to the level of previous releases

denis

2006-04-23

in my previous comment you should read “NOT correctly installed” .. Sorry

apex

2006-04-23

I was having this problem as well. I selected the buslogic scsidriver and it’s working great now. thanks.

IPV6

2006-04-24

Your suggestion to get around the harddrive issue worked flawlessly. Very helpful! Thank you!

Liam

2006-04-28

Why do you imagine this isn’t in the release notes for VMWare server?

Brian’s Weblog » Fedora Core 5 Install

2006-05-03

Simone

2006-05-04

Thank you very much for this hint!

Scott

2006-05-05

Great suggestions – it worked flawlessly for me as well. Thanks, Scott

2006-05-05

Just attempted the install as well. I googled Fedora Core 5 on Vmware and it brought me to your site. Thanks for the help.
Ed.

SP:-)

2006-05-07

Thanks for the workaround!

Rob Owen

2006-05-09

Thanks a lot.
I was having same problem.
Works perfectly with this workaround.

ubergoober

2006-05-11

Fixed it, awesome. Funny how this was a top match on google, but VMWare didn’t rank (or even have a solution for all I know).
Good job and thanks.

DaveP

2006-05-13

YES! Buslogic is the answer! Thanks for the tip. You ROCK!

benhadad

2006-05-17

Has anyone loaded the VMTOOLs under FC5? I have been hitting my head against the wall trying to get the source downloaded and reconized by vmware-config-tools.pl I loaded the compiler and downloaded the source but don’t know which directory to give it.

Souch From Paris – France

2006-05-18

Well done, thanks for this Help for vmware users 🙂

Curt L

2006-05-21

Thank you very much for this info. Fixed me right up. I really do appreciate it.

anthony

2006-05-22

Thanks Michael, problem sorted!

jason

2006-05-24

hahha exactly same problem 😀 i figured it out and saw this post so i was liek hey lets try but i was treying to install win server 2003 so now i tryed fedora again on the guest win srvr 2003 and it worked without had to choose for an driver 😀

Davide Grossato

2006-05-31

I’ve writed an equivalent how-to in Italian and I’ve linked you at
http://dgrossato.blogspot.com/2006/05/fedora-core-5-host-e-guest_114829355595883518.html
Thnx
DvD

dante

2006-06-03

Thanks a lot!
Should have looked it up earlier instead of messing around…
I thought it’s my bloody Dell…;-)

Nelson Alvarez

2006-06-05

Hola!
Esto es justamente lo que me pasaba con mi Dell Inspiron 6400 y por m�s que buscaba en google no encontraba la respuesta.
Muchas gracias por la soluci�n, me est� funcionando a la perfecci�n.
Saludos desde Chile.

张理

2006-06-11

Thank you very much !
非常感谢！！

Dreamer

2006-06-19

Thank’s a lot man!

Paul Lukas

2006-06-27

The links below contain the Fedora Core 5 2.6.17 VMWare image.
[editorial snip, the VMWare Player images can be downloaded directly from thoughtpolice.co.uk]
This VMWare image was originally downloaded from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk and was patched with the latest updates.
VMWare tools are installed.

steve

2006-07-04

thanks for posting this- red hat work great now

Amir

2006-07-05

I also want to join the cangratulaters – you also saved me ALOT of time. thanks you!!!!!

2006-07-14

Thank you I will try it today but it looks like it will work right away.

turlach

2006-07-18

Re-install from the beginning and choose IDE instead of SCSI in the initial configuration and it should work fine.

Ivan

2006-07-22

Thanks for your help! You saved me hours of tests!

2006-07-30

Finally! Thanks…

TnT

2006-08-02

so good ,I just do it . Thanks

Jan

2006-08-05

“5. List of Detected Devices now including the BusLogic Driver”
It did not work with me. Is that because I have a SATA drive installed?
Please help me. I cannot get Fedora 5 installed as a virtual Linux computer.

jay

2006-08-10

u save me some time troubleshooting. im glad i googled it before install to see if there are known issues. owe you a beer in 2nd life.
jay

Jim

2006-08-14

Thanks a lot, worked like a charm and saved me a lot of time. Still behaves that way in 5.5.2 VMWare.

kieran moore

2006-08-23

I tested syllable on vmware which worked, where did you get .vmx file of fedora 5

Tory

2006-08-25

Thanks for this fix! It worked perfectly!

mcope

2006-08-28

this was great advice, just what i needed. gracias

Fabrice

2006-08-29

Work well for a new install,
Thanks a lot.
I just wonder what where the install options for a upgrade FC4 to FC5.
Anyone knows ?

Syed

2006-08-31

HI, can ny1 help me here ,my fedora core-5 is installed in the computer but i’m unable to access it.when i start my computer and start fedora core -5 operating system it goes u p to 30% and then stuck every time.
is this problem related to my Windiws XP because similar problem is coming with MATLAB too(i.e MATLAB too is installed like fedora core-5 but i’m unable to access it.)