jeos won't run in vmware player

[Dan Kegel]

This is really just a more specific case of Bug #151942.
That bug was closed with "Eh, we don't care too much,
just let Debian fix it". Fine perhaps for ubuntu in general,
but I suspect the jeos team is aiming higher, and wants
to run easily on all virtual machines (including vmware player),
not just those with PAE support.

To reproduce:

Download hardy-jeos-i386.iso (alpha 3) or ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386.iso,
install inside vmware player without LVM (to avoid bug 163195)
but otherwise choosing all defaults.
(See http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/11/07/vmware-player-ubuntu-installation.html
for a nice tutorial of how to install with vmware player.)
Reboot as normal after installation.

Observe:
"PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel."

As described in bug #151942.
jeos should notice that it's installing in a virtual machine
that doesn't support PAE, and install a kernel that doesn't need it.
Or at least give a warning, or something.

Here's a somewhat more detailed workaround than given in that bug report,
for somebody installing ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386:
After installing but before rebooting out of the installer,
replace the linux-virtual kernel with the linux-generic kernel
roughly as described here:
http://paul.annesley.cc/articles/2007/05/01/ubuntu-704-feisty-server-parallels-cdromkernel-workaround
e.g.
  choose "Start a shell"
  chroot /target /bin/bash
  mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom
  aptitude install linux-generic
  aptitude remove linux-virtual linux-image-virtual linux-image-2.6.22-14-virtual linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-virtual
  umount /media/cdrom
  exit
  shutdown -h now

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug. Unfortunately Ubuntu JeOS has not been design to run with VMWare player, so I'm marking this bug invalid.