Kernel crashes on VMWare Server 1.0.10

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Hello!

I am currently trying to install openSuSE 12.2 on a VMWare Server 1.0.10 System. Directly after kernel boot, the kernel crashes with following call stack

Call Trace:
panic+0x8b/0x16a
do_exit+0x776/0x7b0
oops_end+0x85/0xc0
do_invalid_op+0x8f/0xa0
error_code+0x5a/0x60
cpumask_weight+0x2/0x8
alternative_instructions+0x25/0x106
check_bugs+0xf9/0xfd
start_kernel+0x315/0x324
Code: …
EIP: native_nmi_stop_other_cpus+0x29/0xe0

Installation medium is MD5 checked, all different kernel possibilities have been tested out, always the same…

Any ideas?

Regards
D. Hummel

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-=WELCOME=- new poster who asks:

> Any ideas?

i have no idea what the kernel mumbles about, and no idea how to learn
what any of that means–but, i do have some ideas (with no answers):

is the openSUSE you are trying to install 64 bit? and, can the VMWare
you are using host a 64 bit OS (not all VMs can)?

what host OS is the VM running in (not all OS can host a 64 capable VM)?

try installing that media on real metal…
if you can then you know the VM is screwed, and you need to ask about
that on the VMWare forum

if you can’t install to real metal, you know your install media is
screwed… (did you do this first: http://tinyurl.com/cj94x8d ?)
OR your hardware is not suitable for Linux…what is it?
OR you need to look at the BIOS…maybe update the bios…

–
dd http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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On 2012-12-04 13:06, dietmarhummel wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I am currently trying to install openSuSE 12.2 on a VMWare Server
> 1.0.10 System. Directly after kernel boot, the kernel crashes with
> following call stack

Notice that there is a virtualization forum here. You should have posted
there, and now you should ask a moderator to move your post there.

However.

It is impossible to use WVware server, it is old and not maintained.
There are incompatibilities that no one has solved. I have links to some
hacks to install it on Linux, but your case is different, you are
installing Linux in it.

Use VMware player instead, it is also free.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)