Day: July 30, 2008

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on VMware ESX (finished)

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As I pointed out in my past posts, I was having some weird errors with SLES10 regarding mounting CD images inside the guest (as well, as it turned out, on the physical hardware).

Now, finally, after about a week or so Novell finally released an updated kernel package today. So the error per se is fixed, I can use my CD drives again, as well as update my virtual machines by means of virtual center, without the trickery of copying the linux.iso from /vmimages/tools to the guest and mount it by means of mount -o loop.

Yet another VMware error

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Today I was moving a pretty standard SLES10 virtual machine to another host, when the migration dialog showed me this:

fault.MemorySizeNotRecommended
fault.MemorySizeNotRecommended

And if you now think, the virtual machine is something special take a look at those settings:

Virtual machine configuration
Virtual machine configuration

I don’t know what to think about that error message. Googling for it doesn’t reveal that much about it. If anyone out there got an idea, I’m open for suggestions.

Fixing vmkernel symlinks

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Since I do happen to be in the situation pretty often where the kernel inside a VM is newer than what VMware currently has in their tools (as in the SUSE kernel is newer than the binary modules built by VMware), here’s a quick reminder for myself on how to to fix the .ko symlinks.