This is my first experience with VMware.
I recently built a new machine and installed SuSE 10.1 -- twice. The first time I installed VMware Server from the tarball. For a variety of reasons, within a couple of weeks I re-did the SuSE installation. The second time, I installed VMware using the rpm in YaST.
The first time I was able to successfully install a guest OS from a .iso file. This time, when I power on the virtual machine, I get an error message that says:
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Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key
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I created the ISO using dd if=/dev/hdc of=Win98SE.iso, and pointed the virtual CD drive at that file with the Browse button.
I tried this again with a second CD (both from now defunct machines that I own). I get the same results with each.
I also tried re-ordering the boot order in the virtual machine BIOS. It didn't matter.
Back at a shell window, I tried mounting the .iso file just to make sure I could read it. I got an error message that said that only root could do that (mount). I su'd to root and successfully mounted the ISO.
Is there some setting I need to change somewhere to allow the rpm version of VMware Server to have the authority to mount ISO images? Or is there something else I should look at to solve this problem?
Thanks.