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VMware Player will not load in Fedora 11 beta or Fedora Preview loaded with shell command; One gets "Unable to modify kernel" error and quits.

VMware Player will not load in Fedora 11 beta or Fedora Preview loaded with shell command; One gets "Unable to modify kernel" error and quits.

====Soas2 .iso installed to VM Hard Disk====

====Soas2 .iso installed to VM Hard Disk====

adapted from:

adapted from:

http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_en_CM

http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_en_CM

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMWare/Preparing_a_disk_image

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMWare/Preparing_a_disk_image

*VMware Workstation 6.5.2

*VMware Workstation 6.5.2

*Linux Redhat 5

*Linux Redhat 5

*Log in and select color

*Log in and select color

*start terminal  

*start terminal  

su -

su -

yum install anaconda

yum install anaconda

enter command:liveinst

enter command:liveinst

/dev/sda1

/dev/sda1

custom  

custom  

to Max Size

to Max Size

/boot  

/boot  

ext3 (no swap)      {Installer will reformat drive}

ext3 (no swap)      {Installer will reformat drive}

(Do normal Installation, shutdown and change VM CD to use physical drive-autoselect.

(Do normal Installation, shutdown and change VM CD to use physical drive-autoselect.

*Power On Virtual Machine

*Power On Virtual Machine

*log in as root (with password entered in installation)

*log in as root (with password entered in installation)

  yum install @gnome-desktop gdm (172 files 232MB)

yum install @gnome-desktop gdm (172 files 232MB)

  yum install sugar-emulator  

yum install sugar-emulator  

*StartX

*StartX

*Go to User manager and enter new user

*Go to User manager and enter new user

*startx

*startx

*In gnome-terminal enter sugar-emulator.

*In gnome-terminal enter sugar-emulator.

I was unable to install system-switch-displaymanager due to plymouth dependency errors thus it will not go into init level 5 and gdm

I was unable to install system-switch-displaymanager due to plymouth dependency errors thus it will not go into init level 5 and gdm

SUGAR Installed this way in a VM Appliance Works in this initial attempt but needs some more work- Please add to this if you have a better solution.

SUGAR Installed this way in a VM Appliance Works in this initial attempt but needs some more work- Please add to this if you have a better solution.

This VM Application can be cloned in VMWorkstation and copied to a USB stick and run with VMPlayer.

This VM Application can be cloned in VMWorkstation and copied to a USB stick and run with VMPlayer.