[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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
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