linux vmware player appliance

[David W. Allor]

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Today was my first attempt to run marketcetera.  I immediately ran into problems when loading the vmware appliance in Linux.  Here are the details:

Using:
marketcetera-appliance-0.5.0
VMware-player-2.0.5-109488.i386.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2009.0 Beta 2 (I won't be running it on a beta system after testing.  This should cause this problem.)

The appliance fails to load, giving the following kernel message:

This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
0:6
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

Everything I did followed the demo installation video (except for linux) until it spit out this message.
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[Toli Lerios]

Hi David ---

I am sorry to hear our appliance is causing you headaches.

The cause of your problem is probably the fact that your system has an
old (or possibly too new) CPU (or maybe you have an AMD instead of an
Intel). Our appliance is a VMWare image based on a very simple,
boiler-place Ubuntu Linux system. When you run that image on top of
VMware player on your machine, the VMware player delegates Ubuntu kernel
operations to your CPU. While almost any modern Intel CPU should be able
to execute our vanilla Ubuntu kernel, your CPU does not.

The only way around it is to either try our appliance on top of a recent
Intel CPU (and whatever OS you want); we use Intel CoreDuo/Quads, and
most recent Intel CPUs work for us.

On our end, we'll add to our to-do list reconfiguring our Ubuntu kernel
to be less CPU-specific; but that won't help you much in the meantime.

NB: Your machine's operating system (Mandriva) version is irrelevant.
The conflict occurs between the CPU and the Ubuntu embedded in our
appliance (not your own OS).

--
Toli Lerios <[hidden email]>

> Today was my first attempt to run marketcetera.  I immediately ran into
> problems when loading the vmware appliance in Linux.  Here are the
> details:
>
> Using:
> marketcetera-appliance-0.5.0
> VMware-player-2.0.5-109488.i386.rpm
> Mandriva Linux 2009.0 Beta 2 (I won't be running it on a beta system
> after testing.  This should cause this problem.)
>
> The appliance fails to load, giving the following kernel message:
>
>         This kernel requires the following features not present on the
>         CPU:
>         0:6
>         Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
>
>
> Everything I did followed the demo installation video (except for linux)
> until it spit out this message.

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