Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine

[John Abreau]

Mark Komarinski wrote:
> I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing
> installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort.
> I'm currently running FC4.
> 
> I know of the following:
> 
> VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk
> qemu:  Stuck trying to calculate dependencies
> Xen:  Never used it, but it looks like I need a custom kernel?
> 
> So those of you that test out the new FC, what do you do?  Just install
> it to the hard drive and have at it?
> 
> -Mark
> 

I haven't looked at fc5-test1 yet, but I have fc4 running great under 
VMware 5.5. As I recall, I had a similar problem when I tried the VMware 
install using the four fc4 cd iso images, but it installed without a 
problem when I used the fc4 dvd iso image.

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