Re: Building LFS in VMware Workstation

Il giorno 1 feb 2026, alle ore 23:37, Steve Thomas <[email protected]> ha scritto:



On
30/01/2026 19:28, Pocket ([email protected] via lfs-support
Mailing List) wrote:

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.

Can you tell us more about both approaches? How do you use overlay to build LFS?

Michele

Thankyou to everyone who replied both on and off list regarding
this. Its given me a few more points and ideas to consider.

Steve

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