debian 9.3 as guest on vmware workstation 14, win10 host
Hello, I'm attempting to do an install of debian 9.3 x64 as a guest in workstation 14. The host OS is win10 v1709. I've read compatibility issues and have confirmed I am not using accelerated 3d graphics in the vm, and am using the LSI virtual scsi adapter in the vm. I'm using orca software speech for the install. At different points during the install speech stops and I'm assuming the vm has frozen. This does not happen at the same point of the install. The vm has 16GB of ram and a quad core processor for hardware. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.
I've run Debian successfully over many years, on hardware directly and in a KVM virtual machine. So I think you're right that the problem relates to your VM, with which I've had no experience. My only suggestion is to find out whether you can enable logging of the VM system that might generate useful error messages on the host OS. If you haven't already looked for errors in Windows Event Viewer, then it's time to do that, as a first step. You could always repartition the drive and just install directly to the hardware. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 1:07 AM To: blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] debian 9.3 as guest on vmware workstation 14, win10 host Hello, I'm attempting to do an install of debian 9.3 x64 as a guest in workstation 14. The host OS is win10 v1709. I've read compatibility issues and have confirmed I am not using accelerated 3d graphics in the vm, and am using the LSI virtual scsi adapter in the vm. I'm using orca software speech for the install. At different points during the install speech stops and I'm assuming the vm has frozen. This does not happen at the same point of the install. The vm has 16GB of ram and a quad core processor for hardware. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
I haven't installed debian 9/stretch in a few months but I don't think it has a graphical install, does it? I think it uses speakup, not orca. Anyway, I think you should do a screen cap and then run an ocr program on it. I am a virtualBox user but I am fairly certain VMware has a screen cap feature. I am not sure about OCR programs for Windows but in linux, there is tesseract. The text recognition is far from perfect but between the virtualBox screen cap feature and tesseract, I can usually figure out why my virtual machines won't boot. I think that technique would be worth a try for you. If you write a shell/batch script to do it, it becomes routine and it can bail you out of trouble quite often. On 02/02/2018 12:06 AM, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,
I'm attempting to do an install of debian 9.3 x64 as a guest in workstation 14. The host OS is win10 v1709.
I've read compatibility issues and have confirmed I am not using accelerated 3d graphics in the vm, and am using the LSI virtual scsi adapter in the vm. I'm using orca software speech for the install. At different points during the install speech stops and I'm assuming the vm has frozen. This does not happen at the same point of the install. The vm has 16GB of ram and a quad core processor for hardware.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks. Dave.
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I'm reasonably confident that there are tools which can automate the entire installation process for you: you specify what operating system you want to install, and it builds the virtual machine image. You never interact with the installation process.
Hi, I've tried on two separate computers, whenever debian 9.3 meets VMware workstation it randomly locks the vm. This is even from an 8.7 to 9.3 update. Dave. On 2/2/18, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
I'm reasonably confident that there are tools which can automate the entire installation process for you: you specify what operating system you want to install, and it builds the virtual machine image. You never interact with the installation process.
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Hi, I've tried on two separate computers, whenever debian 9.3 meets VMware workstation it randomly locks the vm. This is even from an 8.7 to 9.3 update. Dave. On 2/2/18, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
I'm reasonably confident that there are tools which can automate the entire installation process for you: you specify what operating system you want to install, and it builds the virtual machine image. You never interact with the installation process.
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Can you try VirtualBox instead? I've read positive reports about it, but I haven't used it. I have used KVM, which requires a Linux host. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2018 1:23 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] debian 9.3 as guest on vmware workstation 14, win10 host Hi, I've tried on two separate computers, whenever debian 9.3 meets VMware workstation it randomly locks the vm. This is even from an 8.7 to 9.3 update. Dave. On 2/2/18, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
I'm reasonably confident that there are tools which can automate the entire installation process for you: you specify what operating system you want to install, and it builds the virtual machine image. You never interact with the installation process.
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I have debian 9 working in a virtualbox vm in linux. I really like virtualbox. As far as I can tell, you can do all configuration via the command line interface. If a vm fails too boot, I can do a screencap and run an OCR program on it. It's bailed me out many times. On 02/03/2018 02:25 PM, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Can you try VirtualBox instead? I've read positive reports about it, but I haven't used it. I have used KVM, which requires a Linux host.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2018 1:23 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] debian 9.3 as guest on vmware workstation 14, win10 host
Hi,
I've tried on two separate computers, whenever debian 9.3 meets VMware workstation it randomly locks the vm. This is even from an 8.7 to 9.3 update.
Dave.
On 2/2/18, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
I'm reasonably confident that there are tools which can automate the entire installation process for you: you specify what operating system you want to install, and it builds the virtual machine image. You never interact with the installation process.
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Hi. Just as another data point. I've today upgraded a jessie ssystem to stretch in VMWare Workstation 12 Pro, on a Win 7 Pro host. Not seen any problems yet. Regards Chris Turner On 03/02/2018 18:23, David Mehler wrote:
Hi,
I've tried on two separate computers, whenever debian 9.3 meets VMware workstation it randomly locks the vm. This is even from an 8.7 to 9.3 update.
Dave.
On 2/2/18, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
I'm reasonably confident that there are tools which can automate the entire installation process for you: you specify what operating system you want to install, and it builds the virtual machine image. You never interact with the installation process.
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