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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: chubbs on June 01, 2007, 05:42:42 PM

Title: Installing SME in VMware
Post by: chubbs on June 01, 2007, 05:42:42 PM

Hey,

I am having no luck installing SME on my XP machine with VMworkstation 5.5 and 6.0, both versions have same problem.  The installation of SME gets to the cd check and then after that says "No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose drivers for the installation to succeed".

Then i press NO and then it posts an error
"NameError: global name 'dispatch' is not defined"

I am not a guru by any means at linux but i figured that the SME would not need my computers chipset drivers as its in a VM, and would just detect the VMware partition.

Any ideas how to could fix this ?

chubbs

Title: Installing SME in VMware
Post by: byte on June 01, 2007, 06:47:10 PM

What "Guest OS" have you chosen ? you will need the Red Hat Enterprise 4.x for it too work

Title: Re: Installing SME in VMware
Post by: Stefano on June 01, 2007, 06:50:23 PM

Quote from: "chubbs"

Hey,

I am having no luck installing SME on my XP machine with VMworkstation 5.5 and 6.0, both versions have same problem.  The installation of SME gets to the cd check and then after that says "No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose drivers for the installation to succeed".

Then i press NO and then it posts an error
"NameError: global name 'dispatch' is not defined"

I am not a guru by any means at linux but i figured that the SME would not need my computers chipset drivers as its in a VM, and would just detect the VMware partition.

Any ideas how to could fix this ?

chubbs

be sure to use ide as type of hd

HTH

ciao
Stefano

Title: Re: Installing SME in VMware
Post by: byte on June 01, 2007, 11:09:08 PM

Quote from: "nenonano"

be sure to use ide as type of hd

You could do but there's nothing wrong with using SCSI, I use this all the time in my testing without any problems, you problem is likey to be wrong guest OS within VM

Title: Re: Installing SME in VMware
Post by: william_syd on June 03, 2007, 04:08:37 AM

Quote from: "chubbs"

Any ideas how to could fix this ?

chubbs

How big are your hard drives in your image?

4G and up should work.

Title: Installing SME in VMware
Post by: SoftDux on June 03, 2007, 05:25:03 PM

Won't this cause with hardware which VMware doesn't "share" properly?