Virtual Server R2 Additions for Linux... anyluck on VPC2004?

I've just spotted that Microsoft are free releasing Virtual Server R2, and
beta testing the Linux Additions.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Thought I would send up a quick ask to the group to see if any testers have
tried the additions against VPC2004 yet?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...t/default.mspx

Cheers,

Chris Tilley
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:58:13 +0100, "Chris Tilley - HPC:Factor"
<> wrote:

>I've just spotted that Microsoft are free releasing Virtual Server R2, and
>beta testing the Linux Additions.
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
>Thought I would send up a quick ask to the group to see if any testers have
>tried the additions against VPC2004 yet?
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...t/default.mspx
>

Various reports are that they work.

But are officially untested and unsupported by MS.

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Unofficially, it would seem that there has been success:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...1a6f8922c12b50

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"Chris Tilley - HPC:Factor" <> wrote in
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> I've just spotted that Microsoft are free releasing Virtual Server R2, and
> beta testing the Linux Additions.
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> Thought I would send up a quick ask to the group to see if any testers
> have tried the additions against VPC2004 yet?
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...t/default.mspx
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Tilley
> Editor-in-Chief
> __________________________________________________ _________________________
> HPC:Factor http://www.hpcfactor.com/
> HPC:Factor HPC Forums http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/
>
>
>

"Chris Tilley - HPC:Factor" <> wrote in
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> Thought I would send up a quick ask to the group to see if any testers
> have tried the additions against VPC2004 yet?

I'm having trouble getting them to work in SuSE 10. The accompanying readme
is in two parts - the first to actually do the installation, and the second
to switch them on. The first part works perfectly (as far as I can see) but
the second part fails. The readme is fairly basic, as it tries to be the
lowest common denominator for all the flavours of Linux supported when
running under Virtual Server. For SuSE 10, I did the following:

1) Capture the VMAdditions iso (obviously!)

2) Open up Konqueror, change directory to the folder containing the rpm
files

3) Run the vmadd-full-0.0.1-1.i386.rpm file - this installs all the
individual components of the Additions.

4) Open the YaST Control Center and click the System Services (Runlevel)
icon - this shows that the five Additions services have been installed but
not running (as expected))

5) Flip into Expert mode, scroll down to the vmadd service, drop the
Start/Stop/Refresh combo and click Start now...

This gives the following error:

/etc/init.d/vmadd start returned 1 (unspecified error):
(kernel module not found)..failed

As I said, I have no expertise whatsoever with Linux, and there's almost
nothing on Google for this error...

I'll have a go with Virtual Server this evening and see how I get on with
that. If I get the same problem there, I'll post a message in the Virtual
Server forum.

I had to install GCC and the kernel sources before the kernel module would
install, that might be your problem.

"Mark Rae" <> wrote in message
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> "Chris Tilley - HPC:Factor" <> wrote in
> message news:...
>
> This gives the following error:
>
> /etc/init.d/vmadd start returned 1 (unspecified error):
> (kernel module not found)..failed
>

"MattBrink" <> wrote in message
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>I had to install GCC and the kernel sources before the kernel module would
>install, that might be your problem.

Are you able to give me any pointers on how to do that - I'm a total Linux
novice...

>>I had to install GCC and the kernel sources before the kernel module would
>>install, that might be your problem.
>
> Are you able to give me any pointers on how to do that - I'm a total Linux
> novice...

I'm a total SuSE novice so this may not be the most efficient way to do it,
but here's how I accomplished it...

1. Go to the Applications -> System menu and start YAST.

2. Enter your root password and when the next screen comes up click on
"Software Management."

3. After it is done reading the package information click the drop-down at
the top of the dialog just to the right of "Filter" and select "Package
Groups."

4. In the window just under where you made the selection in #3 select
"Languages" under "Development" and make sure "gcc" is checked on the right
hand side of the dialog.

5. Same drill as #4 but go to "Sources" under "Development" and pick
"kernel-source" on the right hand side of the dialog.

6. Click the "Accept" button and it should install everything you need to
add the kernel module from there. It may prompt you about installing other
required packages, just tell it that's OK.

"MattBrink" <> wrote in message
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> I'm a total SuSE novice so this may not be the most efficient way to do
> it, but here's how I accomplished it...

Followed your instructions and, as far as I can tell, everything worked
fine.

However, when I try to start the vmadd service, I still get the following
error:

/etc/init.d/vmadd start returned 1 (unspecified error):
(kernel module not found)..failed

Sorry if I wasn't clear on this - you will need to reinstall the RPM for the
kernel module after you put gcc and the kernel-source package on there. In
my case I had to add the --force parameter at the end of the line because it
complained about the kernel module already being installed.

Terrific, thanks guys.

I shall endeavour to get my hands dirty then!

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"Steve Jain" <noreply.-at-.essjae.com@> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:58:13 +0100, "Chris Tilley - HPC:Factor"
> <> wrote:
>
>>I've just spotted that Microsoft are free releasing Virtual Server R2, and
>>beta testing the Linux Additions.
>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>>
>>Thought I would send up a quick ask to the group to see if any testers
>>have
>>tried the additions against VPC2004 yet?
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...t/default.mspx
>>
>
> Various reports are that they work.
>
> But are officially untested and unsupported by MS.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I am not employed of Microsoft.