AROS on VMWare issue

[InTheSand]

Hi,

You have to go about it in a round-about way. The instructions here will help (though some of the wording has changed ever so slightly).

It does work though, with the exception of networking - though it hopefully won't be long (scroll down to the news article below the recent posts) before the relevant network device is part of the nightly builds...

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

It's a bit fiddly, but only takes about ten minutes!

Both UAE and E-UAE are present in the "Extras/Emu" directory (assuming you've grabbed a stable or nightly build) but I've not yet tried either.

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

TheMagicM wrote:
hmm.. since it has (E)UAE I'll spend the time to get it working..

Definitely worth it, especially as the VMWare Server beta is free.

Very impressed with how AROS keeps improving, and it'll be great once the required AMD PCNet device is included to allow networking from within the virtual machine (this'll save me from having to create ISO CD image files for anything additional I want to install into it!)

@kalamatee: keep up the good work!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Ah, but it's not yet in the nightly builds and I'm not registered for SVN access (my programming skills are not good enough to contribute anything to the AROS project!)

If you were feeling kind, perhaps you could make a compiled "pcnet32.device" file (or whatever it's been named) available for download? Or should I just be patient?!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Kalamatee wrote:
well the pcnet32 driver is my contribution aswell =/

Cool! This'll help lots of people get more out of AROS.

I will put a binary on AROS archives for those wanting/needing it

Fantastic! Presumably it'll appear here?

Cheers,

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Fantastic! Grabbing those now! Thanks!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Well... it worked!

I can now ping things, including those on my local network and those on the Internet at large...

But I unfortunately was unable to get AMosaic working - it stops with an error that would seem to indicate that a MUI component might be missing... However, the same AMosaic build launches fine under AROSMax, so I guess I need to do a bit of configuring...

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

The drivers seem fine - great work!

Grabbed AiRcOS and logged in happily to #AROS, so no problems there.

Tried wget and ftp (old versions from AROS-Max) but they don't seem to want to connect to anything. And still have no luck with AMosaic.

But it's getting there!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Hi,

I realise AMosaic is buggy, old and HTTP1.0 only! But thought I'd give it a go anyway.

As for ftp and wget, perhaps I'll try them on a newer nightly build (the one I'm using is a few days old).

Regards,

 - Ali