[syslinux] vesamenu causing screen lock-up

Ram Yalamanchili ramyinc at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 10:10:21 PST 2007


They are different in the sense one is capable of hosting multiple headless
VMs (Server), while the other isn't. But, the monitor code is the same. So
are the BIOS and vmware-tools packages.

Teun, can you post the menu config you are using to test?

--
Ram

On 1/26/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Teun wrote:
> > Quoting Ram Yalamanchili <ramyinc at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> I'm assuming you guys are talking about VMware Workstation? The ESX
> code
> >> base when you boot is the same as linux 2.4.21.
> >
> > I was actually using VMWare Server (because it's free). However, if
> > it's a video BIOS bug as hpa suggested it would surprise me if that
> > would make a difference. I would assume all VMWare products use pretty
> > much the same (video) BIOS, right?
> > I'm not quite sure how to interpret your comment on the ESX code.
> >
>
> I have been told that the Server and Workstation products work very
> differently.  The only one I have any experience with is Server.
>
>         -hpa
>
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