VMWARE

[Doogee]

okay lets rephrase it.

Will i be able to use any Mac emulator without having a mac rom card?

[voidmain]

Yes, but you may need a ROM image from a Mac (a file containing an exact image of the ROM chip in a Mac). You may be referring to this:

http://www.vmac.org/

Which appears to only be able to boot up to MacOS v7.7.5.

[voidmain]

It actually does run ok on 192MB, a lot better than it does with 128MB. I have run it on 128 and it will run but it's certainly not going to be like running it on 256-512MB.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b 2.1:
I have the mac, the system software, but i want to be able to emulate one as well.

What emulator are you planning on running? If you are planning on running vMac it would appear you need a ROM image specifically from a MacPlus. Know anyone with one of those? There surely are simple programs out there to dump the ROM to a file. That part is fine. Transferring the image from a friend to you would not be legal.

[ November 16, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Master of Reality]

Vmware is pretty slow on 96MB of RAM.

[Doogee]

k ive downloaded vmware and installed it, how do i get it going?

[voidmain]

What operating system are you running (distro/version)? What file did you download (RPM)? The installation instructions are on VMware's web site, but it's very simple, and if you give me the answers to my two questions I might be able to answer some questions before you ask them:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_install3.html#1007151

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

Mandrake 9, i downloaded the RPM version and i am currently running the config perl script.

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: -=Doogee=- ]

[voidmain]

You need to have your compiler installed and the kernel headers I am pretty sure. Damn, I was hoping you were going to say you had RedHat and I could have had you going in a couple of minutes. I usually run the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script and just press ENTER all the way through the module questions, and then when it comes to the networking questions I use the defaults except I select "bridged" and I don't install the Samba local networking.

You should be able to just ENTER through the defaults except those two if you have everything you need installed. If not you'll have to find your kernel-headers RPM and install it from your CD. Do you have your compiler installed? You should be able to type "gcc --version" and get something other than "command not found".

When the script finishes it should successfully load the VMware kernel modules. Then just type "vmware" on the command line and it will bring up the GUI.

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

gcc is installed i got the version info and all that. is it against red hats policy to burn a red hat boxed set and give it away, cos if it isnt i might be able to get my mate to burn me red hat 8.0 which he bought. i think that would would make lots of things easier. not just vmware.

[voidmain]

It should not be against RedHat's policy if it is a boxed set of the personal edition (which is freely downloadable). And I don't want to say that RedHat is any better than Mandrake, but it is for me. And I am obviously in a better position to help people who have RedHat because that is what I have used most since like version 2. Install your kernel headers if you are getting errors about files not found. It's normal for it to prompt you for the location of your include files (/usr/src/linux/include) etc. Just press enter. If after going through all of the prompts the modules do not load in the end then you probably do not have your kernel headers installed. You should have an RPM on one of your CDs that start with "kernel-headers*". Install that. Should be under a directory called /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS (or something close).

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

red hat 8 it is then, but if u can help with mandrake that would be nice too  

[voidmain]

I edited my post read that last one again...

[Doogee]

cpp0: warning: changing search order for system directory "/usr/include"
cpp0: warning:   as it has already been specified as a non-system directory
The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.18) does not match your running
kernel (version 2.4.19-16mdk).  Even if the module were to compile successfully,
it would not load into the running kernel.

theres my error i get when i tell it to use /usr/include cos the one it suggests doesnt work i dont know what it meant but i think it might have some relevance.

[voidmain]

Looks like you upgraded your kernel since you first installed it, then installed the older kernel headers. You need the kernel headers that match exactly the version of the kernel you are currently running. If you downloaded the new kernel from Mandrake, go there and get the headers from the same place and do an rpm upgrade on that file.