I have installed a virtualized LAMP-system based on openSuse 11 in VMWare Workstation 6.0.5. The VMware has been installed on a Vista Business Workstation at my office. As I decided to play around with TYPO3 during the weekend I burned the virtual machine on DVD to take it home.
Now I installed VMWare on my notebook (running under XP Home) but when I try to run the virtual machine (copied to hdd) I only get the following error message:
This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU
I think the problem is, that my workstation at the office is based on any kind of an Intel Dualcore CPU while my Notebooks run with an old Centrino CPU (Dothan). Unfortunately my desktops at home running under AMD Athlon 1200 and AMD Athlon XP 3000+ - not very up to date but meet my requirements normally
Is there any chance to get the virtual machine running although? My idea is to work on it until the webproject I am working on is ready to launch and then I will move the machine on an Intel Xeon based server at work.
I don’t know about vmware, but virtualbox has an emulator setting that enables PAE on the virtual CPU. It may be present regardless of the capabilities of the host CPU. Have a look in the vmware settings.
PAE has been in Intel CPUs for a while, it seems. I noted that even an old Celeron 400MHz I rescued from discards had support for PAE. You can check this on your CPU, if running Linux:
In the meantime I have tried to get the machine running on my AMD XP but Suse fails to boot due to the pae thing.
I examined the settings that VMWare offers, but I couldn’t find something like this in VMWare Workstation. I checked the manual, the menus and had a look in the ini-files. Maybe someone here has good knowledge in VMWare and can help?
Or is there an easy way to get another kernel available in the bootmenu that can be choosed when running the virtual machine on CPU that do not support that pae thing?
Maybe it is a question of the host’s operating system as Wikipedia holds the information that Athlons and Pentiums since Pro does have the the PAE Feature.
At work I am using Vista BE while I have XP Home at Home.
There seems to be a incompatibility with the VMWare ESX (old version) and openSUSE11. I created a new machine directly on the ESX but the Setup of openSUSE fails as it does not find the virtual harddisks. WARNING: I had two server-crashs (of the ESX-Server) when trying to setup openSUSE11.
Therefor I decided to go back to openSUSE 10.3 which seems to work but is much efford to install as a server then 11.0 - laughed loud as the box did not found vi or less after setup
