Virtualisation and networking

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:11 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >
> > That NIC requires a very recent 2.6.24.x kernel.  The original
> > SUSE-10.3 kernel is definitely not new enough, but I have no clue
> > whether they've released an updated kernel.  The latest (not the
> > original) Fedora8 kernel definitely supports that NIC as I'm using it
> > quite happily at home.
> >   
> I have found it difficult to locate a kernel rpm of 2.6.24.xx that I can 
> use with yast to install. Has
> anyone got a URL for one. The other point is that opensuse 11.00 beta 1 
> is released on the 17th
> the 3 more in may. These releases will surely have a kernel suitable, I 
> hope :)

Teaching to fish:

For a general (and very short) list of update sources, look here:

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories

If you want to explore all that SUS have (this is not only for SUSE, but
also provides Red Hat and other distro packages), look here:

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service

You can search for packages here:

http://software.opensuse.org/search

I typed 'kernel' and hit the search button. There were results.

Serving catfish:

You can also just go direct to where the kernels are stored:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/SL103_BRANCH/openSUSE_10.3/

You can add that link as a YasT install source. It will find what it
wants below it for your processor type. You can browse is as well.

If you are feeling lucky and want the latest, go to:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/


It is whatever is being positioned as the next stable kernel that suse
will deliver. Hence the name 'factory'.


Hope sone of this is useful. SUSE really do have tons of things in this
area.


> One other thing I wanted to raise was as I have windows install running 
> will it be possible to recognise
> this with say VMware or some other virtualisation program can access and 
> save installing again to a file
> system as the old VMware did.
> 
> There appears to be many programs of the photographic genre that are 
> being ported to linux these days.
> 
-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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