Bug 25740
| Summary: | installer fails under VMware | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-02-07 13:56:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Installation under VMware is not supported. It seems to me that this is a bug in anaconda and will show up with someone with a vga compatible card. The new anaconda does not allow selection of a generic card if it believes it knows the video type. Ok we can test that. Brent does this make sense? Another datapoint -- I was able to successfully install beta3 as a vmware guest by specifying "unlisted" adapter and then selecting vga-16. Install completed and system booted fine. |
I am attempting to install beta3 (fisher) under vmware. VMware has a special XF86 driver/config but does support basic VGA also. I selected a basic install and specified I had generic VGA. I got the following traceback/error: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 503, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1179, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda.py", line 529, in __call__ if server: NameError: server I can install RHL 7 with no problems.