Bug 104671

Summary:	no installation possible in vmware on Windows XP
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Frank Rennemann <frank>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Frank Rennemann 2005-08-15 12:57:13 UTC

I tried to install beta1 as guest in vmware 4 on a Windows XP host. #None of the
installation modes worked, all ended with the message "An error occured during
installation".
There is additional text starting at the lower right end of the error message box:
"Seems we are on a running system; activating testmode"
This is where the systems hangs :(

Software: Windows XP Service Pack 2 and VMware Workstation 4.0.5 build-6030
Hardware: Pentium 4 3.066 GHz with Hyperthreading enabled, 512 MB RAM

Comment 1 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-16 10:21:51 UTC

y2logs? You know the drill...

Comment 2 Frank Rennemann 2005-08-16 16:42:32 UTC

unfortunatelly the virtual system crashes before anything is written to the
virtual disk.
BTW, I tried SUSE Linux 9.2 afterwards and it was also impossible to install
inside VMware 4 on the Windows XP host
Next thing I try is to "upgrade" to VMware 4.5 :)

Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-16 16:46:10 UTC

As long as the red popup "an error occured during installation" is still open, 
you should still be able to retrieve the y2logs on console 2: 
 
http://www.suse.de/~sh/Bugreporting-faq/index.html#y2faq_linuxrc_error_popup

Comment 4 Frank Rennemann 2005-08-19 11:24:33 UTC

after updating the outdated VMware version on my Windows XP host to Version
4.5.2 build-8848 the problem is solved. Installation worked more or less without
problems