Since the VMware install under Fedora 9 was problematic and since there are other kernel related problems (random seg-faults with Fedora 9) I decided to try VMware under Fedora 8 (2.6.26.5-28.fc8.) The now familiar install process went smoothly. In less than 10 minutes the install was completed, and the VMs created under Vista were installed and ready for use.
It should be noted that VMware Server 2.0 does NOT explicitly list Fedora as a supported OS for VMware Server 2.0; while the install seemed to be ‘normal’, I could not get all of the required processes to run and I could not logon to the web console. I also could not locate any error messages pointing me to a solution.
This seems to be a topic of interest so here is a bit more information about using Cobbler to provision Linux systems under VirtualBox. The steps are fairly simple and allow you to use virtual NICS to reach your Cobbler server. To use this information you need: a) a system with an operating Cobbler install and b) Linux VMs configured within VirtualBox.
