Fedora 7 has been released. The release features GNOME 2.18, KDE 3.5.6, fast user switching, hotplugging of display devices, a new theme, kvm, the exprimental Nouveau driver, and much more. Read the release notes, and download or view screenshots.
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Member since:2005-07-06
" I know that the latest kernel makes IDE disks appear as they were SCSI disks but maybe this is unrelated. "
It is very much related. VMWare just needs to adopt. There isn't much Fedora can do about this. Every distribution which is going to libata following Fedora is going to run into the same issue.
Member since:2005-07-06
Actually the problem is referring to is not related to libata switch.
Seems that new(er) kernel, running as guests under VMWare do not detect the VMWare-emulated LSI SCSI disks due to breakage in the LSI-emulation->mptbase driver.
According to a number of threads I saw in LKML, this is a VMWare issue.
In general, someone @VMWare forgot to wake up. A lot of people (including myself) are getting numerous crashes (both host and guest) when using newer (>= 2.6.19) kernels.
- Gilboa "waiting for VT/SVN-less KVM to be released" Davara.
Edited 2007-06-02 07:11 UTC
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2005-07-08
Hmm. Before installing a new distribution on my laptop, I always test it in VMware to spot major issues.
Unfortunately, Fedora 7 won't find the VMware SCSI HDD during the installation. You have to use the old IDE HDD. This is a serious lack of testing. I know that the latest kernel makes IDE disks appear as they were SCSI disks but maybe this is unrelated.
I think I will wait a few weeks and get a respin...