[ale] VMWare and LILO configuration

[Kent Pirkle]

I'm curious as to why you are using LILO with VMWare? 

I have my Win98 guest installed as a virtual disk. I created a menu
item in my GNOME favorites menu with the following startup 
command:

/usr/local/bin/vmware -x -q /home/kmp/vmware/win98/win98.cfg 

This automatically starts up my Win98 virtual machine. 

-x = power-on vmware machine on startup
-q = exit vmware on power off

Unless you have a particular need for the guest OSs to reside
in a real partition, you'd probably be better off formatting
those partitions as ext2 and using vmware virtual disks.


On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:28:40AM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> Hello                                                                           
>                                                                                 
> I have installed VMWare on my Linux (host). There are 2 seprate HDs on this
> system. I have created raw disks to install the guest OSs. Win98 is installed
> as a guest OS on one raw disk (/dev/hda5).
> 
> The problem now is with LILO. I have installed LILO on my /dev/hda MBR. Each
> time I power on the VMWare, it goes to the LILO prompt. So I modified the
> lilo.conf to provide Win98 as an option. At the VMWare LILO prompt I select
> Win98 and then Win98 starts fine.
> 
> In the current LILO configuration, I have:
> 	boot=/dev/hda
>  
> Can anyone recommend a better LILO and/or VMWare configuration? I prefer that
> VMWare not to prompt me for the guest OS. I plan to install other Guest OSs on
> other HD (/dev/hdb). How will the "boot" directive in lilo.conf, direct to the
> other guest OSs on /dev/hdb1 or /dev/hdb2 etc?
> 
> Thank you in advance.                                                           
>                                                                                 
> Subba Rao                                                                       
> subb3 at attglobal.net                                                             
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