Need to add line 'ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"' to vmware config to get network ?

[Rudolf Kutina (VirtGuru)]

Hi All,

I am trying to review a current steps to generate and use Chromium OS images:

Chromium OS FAQ: Evaluating in Virtualization QEMU/KVM, VMware and Virtualbox
http://virtguru.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/12minutes-chromium-os-faq-evaluating-in-virtualization-qemukvm-vmware-and-virtualbox/

I found this actual issues:

Running Virtual Image in VMware Player on Fedora 13

Running it on Quad-Core AMD machine with 4GB am on Fedora 13 64bit in Vmware Player 3.1.2

Starting vmplayer and opening chromiumos.vmx

Status FAIL: Start OK, X OK, Net FAIL = No Ethernet

Reason is then VMware is selecting e1000 by default only for 64bit guests, so I need to add manually to chromiumos.vmx line

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

Nice day
Rudolf

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[Olof Johansson]

This might be because some of the configuration changes that were made this week. What is the default ethernet used by vmware if you don't select e1000?

-Olof

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[Rudolf Kutina (VirtGuru)]

Hi Olof,

Well, I understand need to minimize drives, this is never ending fight in ebmeded like systems without initrd (experience from OpenWRT).

Default network card in 32bit VMware guests is "AMD PCnet32", see all needed drivers in nice Gentoo guide.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Guest

Builds now don't include SCSI driver, so current support of VMware ESX is limited.
http://virtguru.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/12minutes-chromium-os-faq-vmware-esx-is-not-supported-by-default-kernel/

Current builds don't use for QEMU default non e1000 either (ne2000 or RTL), so instead of default "-net nic" a "-net nic,model=e1000" need to be used. It's fixed in script hint at the end, but not in docs yet at:

So just adding 'ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"' to chromiumos.vmx pregenerated from image_to_vm script will follow same logic.

Nice day
Rudolf

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> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Olof Johansson <ol...@chromium.org>
> Předmět: Re: [cros-dev] Need to add line 'ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"' to
> vmware config to get network ?
> Datum: 17.10.2010 22:34:44
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[Rudolf Kutina (VirtGuru)]

Reported as:

7854 Need to add line 'ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"' to vmware config to get network ?
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=7854

Rudolf

12 Minutes with Chromium OS http://wp.me/PLojB-id

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Rudolf Kutina (VirtGuru) <em...@post.cz>

> Předmět: Re: [cros-dev] Need to add line 'ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"' to
> vmware config to get network ?

> Datum: 18.10.2010 16:24:37
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