Re: Building LFS in VMware Workstation

On 1/30/26 11:12 AM, Steve Thomas ([email protected] via lfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm just curious if anyone has experience of building LFS in a VMware 
> Workstation VM. My host for this is a 12th gen intel system (i5 12600) 
> with lots of ram.
> 
> VMware is the ideal way for me, but I do find the kernel config challenging.
> 
> I can get it booting on its own which is good start, and dmesg is mostly 
> clean but I've always had this feeling that the kernel config is still 
> less than optimal.
> 
> I also don't see open-vm-tools anywhere in the LFS subprojects, which 
> VMware supports; this would be a good tool for VMware users I think.
> 
> If anyone has knowledge or experience of this that they are willing to 
> share, or any kernel config tips, I would appreciate it a lot.
> 
> My current host is:
> 
> Z790 Chipset (Asrock Z790M ITX)
> i5 12600 CPU (6c/12t)
> 64Gb Ram
> Nvidia 4600Ti GPU
> 2 x nvme SSD's (Seagate FireCuda)
> 
> I usually set my VM's to have 4 or 6 cores, 16Gb ram and sata emulated 
> HDD's with UEFI boot; nothing exotic here. VMware emulates the 440BX/ 
> PIIX4E chipset.
> 
> Apologies in advance if this is posted in the wrong place. I will 
> happily post to a different list if requested.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I built lfs using overlay filesystem and later in a systemd-nspawn 
container.  Both work.

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