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Originally Posted by bendsley
It does have to be installed on your harddrive!!! You are able to run the OS in conjunction with windows, but they both must reside on the system in order to take advantage of the system resources (ie. mouse, keyboard, NIC, etc.). The only cd's that will run correctly without being installed are the "Live" cds like Knoppix, MandrakeMove, SuSE live, etc.
BUT YOU MUST HAVE FEDORA INSTALLED FOR VMWARE TO WORK CORRECTLY. Then you just tell VMWare to look at the boot record and boot into linux (ie. you run windows natively and then run linux in the window of VMWare)
VMWare was designed so that you could run multiple OS's on one machine at the same time, but, like above, they must be installed on the HDD.
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I think you're starting to confuse people hehe..
Yeah. They have to be installed on a hard drive, but it's not like you install them on the same hard drive you have windows on, and the files just coincide. In VMWare, you generally create a file (or series of files) that represent the hard drive. Windows doesn't know what's in them, nor does it care. VMWare reads them to create the virutal "hard drive" it uses for Linux. The virtual disk has it's own Master Boot Record, and that's that. Yes, there are other modes where you can actually use a physical disk as the vmware disk, but that's not what Slavakion is doing.
Now, Slavakion....
I see two errors on that screenshot. One is concerning the SecurityPolicy file missing, one is concerning the mouse not being found. I don't think they're related.. but hey.. the could be hehe. I don't believe either of them related to VMWare Tools not being installed on the machine (as it doesn't seem to be a graphics display problem).
Could you post another screenshot or whatever of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
I'm looking for this part (yours will vary from mine):
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Also, could you please do an "ls -al /dev/input/mice" or "ls -al (whatever it says for "Device" in the xorg.conf code)", and see if it actually lists a file or says "No such file or directory"?