First VM Created
Saturday 24 February, 2007 - 19:55
Because I was using VMWare Workstation 5.5.3, I varied the installation process from that of Vincent Chan:
- Set Access Rights - Not Applicable
- Startup / Shutdown Options - Not Applicable
- Virtual machine account - Not Applicable
- Memory for the Virtual Machine - Set to 192Mb
- Network connection: Host Only.
The reasons for the variance in procedure are that I have less than the recommended amount of RAM and I am paranoid about opening the VM image to the Internet.
When I tried setting up the ocfs2disk.vmdk drive on device node SCSI 1:0, I get the following message:
The node SCSI(0:7) is currently occupied by another device. Please select a different node.
When I changed the device node to SCSI 2:0, this was accepted and the file was created.
I used device node SCSI 2:1 for asmdisk1.vmdk just because I was not too sure about reusing SCSI 2:0. I used SCSI 2:2 and SCSI 2:3 for the other two (2) ASM disks.
I changed the original Ethernet adapter to Custom using VMNet 1, and added the second Ethernet adapter also as Custom but using VMNet 2.
Editing "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmx", I added the following lines:
disk.locking = "FALSE"diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"scsi2.sharedBus = "virtual"scsi2:0.deviceType = "disk"scsi2:1.deviceType = "disk"scsi2:2.deviceType = "disk"scsi2:3.deviceType = "disk"After examining the VMX file, I feel more comfortable about changing the device nodes because the nodes allocated in Vincent Chan's article match what I manually configured.
I will leave the Linux installation until later.