[IAmNotAUser]

I've just spent the last couple of hours getting the official beta iso booting and installing correctly on VMware Workstation 9.0.1. Unsure if this will affect previous versions but as it's a missing display driver, it may well do. It didn't seem to affect installing XBMC in Virtualbox. Posting here in case anyone else comes across this, I couldn't find any hits with my search terms.

After downloading the iso, I modified the iso to rename "/casper/initrd.img-3.2.0-33-generic-pae" to "initrd.lz" to solve the "/casper/initrd.lz: file not found" error. This let me boot as far as some upstart messages finally pausing at "Stopping XBMCbuntu job starter" for an infinite amount of time.

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To solve this:

• Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a prompt showing
  
  Code:

  xbmc@live:~$
• Type
  
  Code:

  sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-vmware
sudo xinit /usr/bin/ubiquity
• Install as normal and reboot when asked (don't forget to press Enter during shutdown)
  

It's going to freeze again after the reboot, as the driver isn't installed to the vmdk during installation. This time it boots to a login prompt.

• Log in using the credentials set during install
  
• Type
  
  Code:

  sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-vmware
sudo reboot

And enjoy XBMC running in VMware (and if it's the same version as me - all the graphical improvements in Linux that VMware have achieved in the latest versions!)

[lcapriotti]

we just included the driver for next release

[un1versal]

@lcapriotti

Quite a few intel GPUS are installing the vmware driver instead of the proper driver. (when not running/installing on vmware)

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ht=gallium

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ht=gallium

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ht=gallium

those are just some of them. In all instances this is what log shows

Code:

12:29:57 T:3038218816  NOTICE: GL_VENDOR = VMware, Inc.
12:29:57 T:3038218816  NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)

Which is at best incorrect for intel GPU's

idk if this change affects it but this is what ppl report and after log examination the wrong driver is installed for intel gpus in above cases. A issue of incorrect detection maybe idk.

thank you.

uNi

[lcapriotti]

It seems xorg autoconfigure fails at identifying the Intel card. We'll have to provide a fix.

[un1versal]

Thanks, would help on the support part. (as I dont use intel anyway)

uNi

[goslo]

I'm using VMware Server 2.0 and the RC2 Frodo installed well but only goes to the XBMCUbuntu desktop, XBMC will not start, the main menu flickers a couple of times and reverts back to desktop. Seems like this might be a video driver issue, but I think it's running the the VMware driver already. Eden worked well

[nickr]

@goslo This is the same or similar issue as I get on virtualbox I believe. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1282548

[mark4russell]

Thank you so much for posting this worked great for me