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SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9

Support

32-Bit Version

This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:

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VMware Workstation 5.0, 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 Service Pack 1 supported on Workstation 5.0, 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 Service Pack 2 supported on Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 Experimental support for Service Pack 3 beta on Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1 Service Pack 3 supported on Workstation 5.5.2 Novell Open Enterprise Server services supported on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 1 and higher Experimental support for 2-way Virtual SMP on Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1

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VMware ACE 1.0.1, 1.0.2-Service Pack 1

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VMware GSX Server 3.2, 3.2.1 Service Pack 1 also supported

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VMware Server 1.0 Service Pack 1, 2, 3 supported on VMware Server 1.0 Experimental support for 2-way Virtual SMP on VMware Server 1.0

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VMware ESX Server 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 3.0 Service Pack 1 supported on ESX Server 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 3.0 Service Pack 2 supported on ESX Server 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 3.0 Service Pack 3 supported on ESX Server 2.5.3, 3.0 Virtual SMP supported (For host machines that use the AMD Opteron processor, see the known issue SLES 9 SP3 Guest Experiences Monitor Panic in SMP Mode on Host with AMD Opteron Processor.)

64-Bit Version

This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:

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VMware Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 Service Pack 1 supported on Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 Service Pack 2 supported on Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 Experimental support for Service Pack 3 beta on Workstation 5.5, 5.5.1 Service Pack 3 supported on Workstation 5.5.2 Experimental support for 2-way Virtual SMP on Workstation 5.5.2

This guest operating system has experimental support on the following VMware products:

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ESX Server 3.0 Experimental support for Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2, Service Pack 3

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VMware Server 1.0 Service Pack 1, 2, 3 supported on VMware Server 1.0 Experimental support for 2-way Virtual SMP on VMware Server 1.0

General Installation Notes

Be sure to read General Guidelines for All VMware Products as well as this guide to installing your specific guest operating system.

The easiest method of installing SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) in a virtual machine is to use the standard SUSE distribution CDs. The notes below describe an installation using the standard distribution CD; however, installing SLES 9 via the boot floppy/network method is supported as well. If your VMware product supports it, you can also install from a PXE server.

Note: With many Linux guest operating systems, various problems have been observed when the BusLogic virtual SCSI adapter is used with VMware virtual machines. Unless you are using ESX Server 2.5.x, VMware recommends that you use the LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter with this guest operating system.

ESX Server: Only the BusLogic virtual SCSI adapter is supported in a SLES 9 virtual machine on ESX Server 2.5.x. The LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter is supported for SLES9 virtual machines on ESX Server 3.0. Only the LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter is supported in a SLES 9 virtual machine with more than 4GB of memory on ESX Server 3.0.

Before installing the operating system, be sure that you have already created and configured a new virtual machine.

Installation Steps

1 Insert the SLES 9 installation CD in the CD-ROM drive.

2 Power on the virtual machine to start installing SLES 9.

3 Install using the text mode installer. In the first installation screen, use the arrow keys to select Installation, press the F2 key, use the arrow keys to choose text mode, and then press Enter to select the text mode installer.

4 At the Installation Settings screen, go to the Change menu and choose Booting.

5 The Boot Loader Setup screen appears. Set the Boot Loader Type to LILO instead of the default GRUB.

6 The installer displays a warning that indicates you might lose some settings and prompts you to select a course of action. Select Convert current configuration and continue.

7 Select Finish to return to the Installation Settings screen.

8 Follow the remaining installation steps as you would for a physical machine.

This completes basic installation of the SLES 9 guest operating system.

VMware Tools

Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the manual for your VMware product or follow the appropriate link in the knowledge base article at www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=340.

Enabling Sound After Installing SLES 9

VMware GSX Server: The sound device is disabled by default and must be enabled with the virtual machine settings editor (VM > Settings) after the operating system has been installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in the GSX Server documentation.

Known Issues

Do Not Use 4-Bit Color

If you change the screen resolution in the SLES 9 guest operating system, be sure you also set a color bit depth greater than 16 colors (4 bit). If you attempt to use a setting of 16 colors (4 bit), it can cause a fatal error in the X server.

Manual Changes Might Be Needed to Use Networking in Copied Virtual Machine

In some cases, networking does not work properly in a copied or cloned virtual machine or a virtual machine deployed to end users as part of a VMware ACE package. If you copy a virtual machine and specify that the copy should have a unique identifier, the MAC addresses for any virtual Ethernet adapters attached to the virtual machine change. When a SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 guest operating system is installed, it includes the MAC address as part of a key configuration filename. When the virtual machine's MAC address changes, the guest operating system might fail to associate this configuration file with the virtual Ethernet adapter. If you experience this problem, you can work around it by copying or renaming the file. For eth0, for example, make the following change:

Old name:
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0-id-<MAC_address>

New name:
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0

Clock in Guest Operating System Might Run Too Quickly or Too Slowly

If the clock in your guest operating system runs too quickly or too slowly, use one of the workarounds described in the knowledge base article at www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1420.

Guest Screen Saver

VMware Workstation or VMware GSX Server: On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver in the guest operating system. Guest screen savers that demand a lot of processing power can cause the X server on the host to freeze.

SLES 9 SP3 Guest Experiences Monitor Panic in SMP Mode on Host with AMD Opteron Processor

VMware Workstation or VMware ESX Server: On a host machine with an AMD Opteron processor, a virtual machine running SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP3 in SMP mode (that is, with more than one virtual processor) fails to boot, with the monitor error BUG F(140):1913 bugNr-18415. The error is caused by specific CPU instructions executed by the guest kernel on AMD platforms.

To work around this problem, you can set the virtual machine to use only one virtual processor. For instructions, see your VMware product documentation. This problem has been fixed in Workstation 5.5 and ESX Server 3.0.

Disable PAE in ESX Server Virtual Machines

EXS Server 2.5.x: Although ESX Server 2.5.x virtual machines are compatible with Physical Address Extension (PAE), they are not optimized for it. As a result, guest operating systems with PAE enabled might experience poor performance. For best performance, VMware recommends that you disable PAE in guest operating systems. For more information and instructions on disabling PAE, see the knowledge base article at
www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2020.

EXS Server 3.0: Note that disabling PAE also disables NX (no execute) and ED (execute disabled) features found in recent AMD and Intel processors. These features are not supported by ESX Server versions before ESX Server 3.0.