Greg Troxel writes:
>I made a /tmp in /emul/linux to avoid the ram file being in /, which
>isn't that big.  vmware3 doesn't seem to respect TMPDIR or the
>tmpDirectory config file statement.

It does for me.

>I can't boot my old win2k image (plain disk: mbr in file, and most in
>/dev/rwd0j) under vmware3.  It starts to boot and then hangs, and
>sometimes I get a 'guest has disabled the cpu' message.

Maybe this is the ACPI HAL issue that is described in the VM Ware docs.

I've booted and installed W2K in an 128M virtual machine.  But the disk was
just a file.

>I was unable to get to the BIOS setup screen.

This could be the X11 issue.  Try DISPLAY=localhost:0.

I'm using 1.6.x, though.

--chris