Comments on: Slackware Virtual Machine

By: jay

jay — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:04:35 +0000

try creating a new vmx file and point it to the slack11.vmdk and see if it helps.

By: Jeff N.

Jeff N. — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:48:51 +0000

I used the new Slack10.2vmx, and added the path to my slack11.vmdk to it. It starts not but just sits at a black screen. Any hints?

By: jay

jay — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:28:51 +0000

Thanks for the information Chris. Glad that you found it useful.

Cheers!
-jay

By: Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:14:07 +0000

Just wanted to say that I had the same problem with the scsi0 entry so I downloaded Slack10.2.vmx, updated the scsi0:0.fileName value and the whole thing works perfectly fine now. It’s probably worth mentioning the virtual machine runs on a Mac with VMware Fusion (beta) installed.

Thanks for the Slack VM!

By: Live

Live — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:43:43 +0000

Thanks for the new .vmx as VMPlayer complained about the back dated version in the .rar archive.

By: no WINner!?

no WINner!? — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:54:26 +0000

What about a http/ftp link?

By: matt

matt — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:19:03 +0000

hey the link to the torrent is dead

By: tomaz

tomaz — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:02:04 +0000

hey, it works! thanks a lot

By: jay

jay — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:17:55 +0000

Hi,

Here is the vmx files created in WS 5.5.1 and it seems to work fine.

http://download.vmwhere.net/Slack10.2.vmx

Just edit the line
scsi0:0.fileName = “D:\Slackware\Slack.vmdk

and replace it with the path to your vmdk.

Reply back if it works for you.

And BTW sorry for the extra hassle

By: tomaz

tomaz — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:35:55 +0000

Hi, I have the same problem.. I deleted the slackware-10.2.vmx file, created a new VM, modified the new slackware-10.2.vmx file suitably and nothing better.
It still says:
—
Failed to retrieve disk information for “D:\…\VMW_slackware-10.2\Slack-s001.vmdk”:
The file specified is not a virtual disk
—

I also tried to modify the vmx file from Ubuntu VM i have that works.. same error.
I tried scsi0:0.fileName = “Slack-s001.vmdk” , ide0:0.fileName = “Slack-s001.vmdk” .