Can someone please clarify the status of minimal install images of Centos 5 for VMware? I see the work that 'tru' did, but it is still at 5 (not 5.1). Is that the best image available (just run yum update), or what about the minimal image listed on the VMware Virtual Appliance site?
Ted Miller Indiana, USA
Ted Miller wrote:
Can someone please clarify the status of minimal install images of Centos 5 for VMware? I see the work that 'tru' did, but it is still at
The images that Tru did are the only official ones...
5 (not 5.1). Is that the best image available (just run yum update), or what about the minimal image listed on the VMware Virtual Appliance site?
If you dont download the image from .centos.org - its not a CentOS image.
Also, you might want to read up on the relationship between CentOS-5 and CentOS-5.1
Can someone please clarify the status of minimal install images of Centos 5 for VMware? I see the work that 'tru' did, but it is still at
The images that Tru did are the only official ones...
5 (not 5.1). Is that the best image available (just run yum update), or what about the minimal image listed on the VMware Virtual Appliance site?
If you dont download the image from .centos.org - its not a CentOS image.
OK, so I downloaded the image and unzipped it. (The first time I tried to unzip it from Konqueror, it installed the little files, but left all the .vmdk files as 0 byte files).
I changed the root password.
1. The first think I get is an error message saying that it can't find vmnet(8), so the network card will start disconnected.
Shut it down, changed configuration to connect network card to bridged network connection.
2. I reboot, I can see my network (including my firewall with dns service), but cannot ping the Internet.
Is there any documentation for this image? If it is this hard to live with, no one is going to be interested in using it. It needs to be either more user friendly, or it needs documentation.
What do I do to let it see the Internet? At the moment it is pretty useless to me. I can't use yum, because it can't see anything.
Disappointed, Ted Miller
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:27:12PM -0500, Ted Miller wrote:
OK, so I downloaded the image and unzipped it. (The first time I tried to unzip it from Konqueror, it installed the little files, but left all the .vmdk files as 0 byte files).
I changed the root password.
- The first think I get is an error message saying that it can't find
vmnet(8), so the network card will start disconnected.
which guest did you try?
There should not be any vmnet driver used unless you installed the vmware tools which are not installed by default (on purpose).
The default kernel is the kernel-vm (CentOS specific) but the pristine kernel (and kernel-smp for CentOS-4) are also there.
My TODO list for 2008 contains the "howto" the guest images are generated.
The 4.6 and 5.1 are being built, and will be uploaded this week.
Cheers,
Tru
Tru Huynh wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:27:12PM -0500, Ted Miller wrote:
OK, so I downloaded the image and unzipped it. (The first time I tried to unzip it from Konqueror, it installed the little files, but left all the .vmdk files as 0 byte files).
I changed the root password.
- The first think I get is an error message saying that it can't find
vmnet(8), so the network card will start disconnected.
which guest did you try?
There should not be any vmnet driver used unless you installed the vmware tools which are not installed by default (on purpose).
You can try my open-vm-tools if you want (there are some for 4 and 5)
The default kernel is the kernel-vm (CentOS specific) but the pristine kernel (and kernel-smp for CentOS-4) are also there.
My TODO list for 2008 contains the "howto" the guest images are generated.
The 4.6 and 5.1 are being built, and will be uploaded this week.
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