Installing SUSE Linux 9.0 as a VMware guest
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Introduction
This page deals with SUSE 9.3 as the host operating system with VMware 5.5 RC1 installed and shows the hints for a proper installation of SUSE 9.0 as a guest operating system.
Software Selection
First of all you need to be sure, that some software requirements are met. The screenshot shows the additional software groups you should install in addition to the base installation software selection done by YaST.
No YAST after installation
It does not matter when and how: Do not run the YaST Online Update (YOU) during the base installation of the operating system.
Base installation finished
If you have done a default installation, you have now a login screen with 640 x 480 resolution.
Things to do prior to a YOU run
Now type STRG+ALT+F1 to enter a console in the VMware-Session, log in as root and first do a "init 3" and then install the Vmware Tools package.
Run YOU
Reach for YOU and do a complete YOU.
Reboot
Then reboot the virtual machine.
Configure VMware Tools
After the reboot go to a console again, log in as root and type in
cd /usr/src/linux && make cloneconfig && make dep && vmware-config-tools.pl
Answering the first two questions
The first answers to the questions of the VMware Tools script should be "yes", as you need to tell the script where the configured kernel source tree is and if VMWare should compile the necessary modules for you.
Configuring the resolution
Now you may enter a number to describe which resolution you want to use.
Installing the vmnet module
The vmnet module within the VMware session replaces the emulated AMD pcnet32 100 Megabit network interface card with a 1 Gigabit ethernet card thus improving the speed. The vmware-config-tools.pl script says how to enable at the end of proper compiling.
/etc/init.d/network stop rmmod pcnet32 rmmod vmxnet depmod -a modprobe vmxnet /etc/init.d/network start
In this case I have written all of the lines into a little shell script ;-)
VMware Configuration ready
That's all folks - All done.
VMware-Documentation: Setting up VMware on SUSE Linux | Uninstalling VMware from SUSE Linux | Recovering VMware Workstation After a Kernel Update | Installing SUSE Linux 9.0 as a VMware guest | Installing SUSE Linux 9.1 as a VMware guest |