RIS building VMware machines

[ianfitzgibbon]

Firstly this is my first on the for the forum so apologies if this has already been answered

but...

I have 5 VMware virtual machines setup to recieve PXEboot requests from the RIS server at my workplace.

All machines are have IDE drives with 1 machine with SCSI drive as a test.

All machines can get the F12 prompt and I can connect to the server, I choose the RIS image but the image starts to load but hangs at Setup is starting windows.

I have added the VMscsi drivers and video drivers to the global image

Anything else I am missing cos I am completely stumped

thanks in advance

Ian

[cluberti]

Does this work with non-VM machines? I ask because if you set NTLMv2 to level 5 on the DCs, the DCs will refuse the LM or NTLM authentication of a RIS client and you'll hang at this point. If a non-VM machine works, then this isn't the issue.

Also, is this a flat image or a riprep image?

[ianfitzgibbon]

Hi there

many thanks for the reply - Ris does work on non vm machines ...

All standard machines build fine

The image is a riprep image

Thanks again

Ian

[cluberti]

If it hangs at that point, then, it's usually network drivers. Have you integrated any network drivers? I've never seen this problem on flat images, but I have seen this problem (on real hardware too) due to network card driver issues.

[ianfitzgibbon]

Thanks for the reply,

I did think I did include the NIC Drivers but I wil check again tomorrow when I get to work

I will let you know if that was it

Thanks for the fantastic help sofar

Ian

[ianfitzgibbon]

Hi there

Good morning from a snowy uk

anyways the network drivers are in the global image and it still hangs - the drivers I'm using are the w2k versions that included in the I386 folder. Reason for this I can't find any XP versions

The files are as follows ... ( this is a copy of my notes I create when updating the I386 folder)

19-01-07 - Added for Vmware version

09/08/2006 15:02 7,900 Vmware-nic.cat

09/08/2006 15:02 3,561 Vmware-nic.inf

09/08/2006 15:02 7,860 vmxnet.cat

09/08/2006 15:02 3,567 vmxnet.inf

09/08/2006 15:02 22,528 vmxnet.sys

09/08/2006 15:02 3,584 vmx_mode.dll

09/08/2006 15:02 9,052 vmx_svga.cat

09/08/2006 15:02 2,970 vmx_svga.inf

09/08/2006 15:02 15,744 vmx_svga.sys

09/08/2006 15:02 84,608 vmx_fb.dll

21-01-07 - Added for VMware version

30/11/05 18:30 1,621 VMSCSI.INF

30/11/05 18:30 7,868 VMSCSI.cat

30/11/05 18:30 10,880 VMSCSI.SYS

I am assuming you don't need to list any NIC files in the TXTSETUP.SIF

help

Thanks

ian

[cluberti]

Are they also in the flat-file image's i386 folder, the one that was used to build that riprep image?

[ianfitzgibbon]

Hi there

Many thanks for the reply

Yes the files are in the I386 folder which all the images use after I have ripreped them

Thanks

Ian