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VMware Status 21 July 2007: Consider getting Intel VT hardware for the next server: "With Intel VT, Xen can also use HVM to virtualize Windows guests". Could we even run all three OSes on an XServe? (Likely not.) See also An Introduction to Custom Xen Networking -- each virtual machine can have its own public IP address!!. On
9 January 2006, I got the shared folder function working, so that I can
access /mnt/storage from both OSes. I also made a samba connection to spello, installed anti-virus, and made a clone. On
18 October 2005, I purchased VMware 5 Workstation from 04/07/05, build
13124, conf. #661927, for $99 and installed successfully on trevi; the
WinXP I
had installed with the 5-rc2 beta still works. I can connect to spello
using samba -- I don't have a host-only connection working yet. In December 2004, I installed VMware 4.5 on Trevi and in February 2005 I installed 5 beta. In December 2003, I re-installed VMware on Spello. It's working great. Also check out Using Windows Terminal Services with Linux To do To be able to use the local printer from both Linux and Win at the
same time, you need to share the printer in Samba and then map the printer
in Windows. However, you're currently running two Samba servers -- vmware's
own for spellowin, and spello's own for merton, nicco, etc. To sort this
out could be some work -- cf. Samba. Run regular defragmentations (though VMware will warn you). Guides and information
Here's a list of installed vmware executables:
Installation history 9 January 2006 -- antivirus and shared foldersThe WinXP-64 stopped working long ago, but the old WinXP is fine. I reverted to an older version to ensure viruses hadn't accumulated and then cloned it for backup. In addition, I installed sophos antivirus, configured it, and added the types jpg, wmf, and jpeg, due to the latest vulnerability; the check shows no viruses. I turned it off and ran defragmentation. I then took a snapshot and made a clone. The OS is still leaky, but if you have problems you can revert. For some reason, under user Steen in XP, "Administrative tools" doesn't show up in the menu, even though Sophos detected its presence. This is likely a setting somewhere and might be useful. If you run the Gnome system monitor while you start XP, you see it takes up a lot of CPU power. To define shared folders -- it looks like I can share folders from the host to the guest -- in the main menu of VMware, select VM and Settings, then the Options tab and Shared folders. I defined /mnt/storage. In Windows Explorer | Tools | Map network drive | Folder, I got this as a default: \\.host\Shared FoldersThat worked! And I don't need to have the network enabled. This is really what I wanted. I can now access this directory without turning on the network, and thus share files both ways. The folder likely needs to be on a mounted drive, meaning I can access a file from both OSes at the same time. To install VMware tools, you need a CD device defined; just use an iso image. Connecting from XP in VMware to spello works -- just use the IP number and not the name. The connecting machine's IP number is that of clitunno, not the IP address shown within VMware, so no need to change permissons. The connection log is in /var/log/samba/log.smbd. 25 February 2005: VMware 5 beta I couldn't figure out why vmware wouldn't install in normal root, but finally realized that /etc/ld.so.conf has to include these libraries: /var/chroot/sid-ia32/libI ran ldconfig (will it mess up other programs?) and tried again So that was quite simple in the end, and you didn't need the any-any-update this time. VMware 5 is running. 24 November 2004 update: VMware with libraries in chroot instead of emul I followed the instructions for 31 October and quickly installed VMware under the new setup, where 32-bit libraries are in a chroot rather than in emul as below. No complications so far. Now what would be nice is running the same WinXP installation from boot and from Linux... I guess Wine might do that one day. Still -- recall that this version of XP was installed by gubbio or some other machine, and simply moved to clitunno, where it's working great. Now that Gubbio is more or less out of commission -- running a MythTV demo, and demoted to its original 300MHz CPU -- I'm using Spello as the samba server and port to my other resources (hopefully this is safe!). It looks like clitunno will run VMware reliably and I can expect to remove VMware from spello. 31 October update: VMware on the Opteron storage server I located the 4.0 license (with some difficulty) and downloaded the
4.5.2 tarball to clitunno:/share/software/binary/vmware (you also have
a version in /vc/software/binary/VMware), plus the XP image in
/mnt/cl32/data/vmware/XP. I untarred it to
clitunno:/share/software/binary/vmware/vmware-distrib and ran
./vmware-install.pl. I installed to /usr/bin and /usr/lib/vmware, with
manual pages in /usr/share/man and documentation in
/usr/share/doc/vmware. It needs to run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl the
first time. It needed to build kernel modules, so is using the default
/usr/bin/gcc and /lib/modules/2.6.9rc2/build/include. The build failed
-- hostif.c:566: error: `PAGE_KERNEL_EXECUTABLE' undeclared (first use in this function)From the vmware forum, I see Petr Vandrovec's reply that I need "vmware-any-any-update. PAGE_KERNEL_EXECUTABLE was renamed to PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC somewhere between 2.6.5 and 2.6.7." I get vmware-any-any-update84.tar.gz from his patch directory with wget and find the instructions: After downloading unpack file into some directory, enter that directory and run "./runme.pl".I untar it to clitunno:/share/software/binary/vmware/vmware-distrib/vmware-any-any-update84, issue ./runme.pl and get this: VMware Workstation 4.5.2 (build-8848) or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0 (build-9089), now patchedThe script then picks up on the normal install script and tries to build the modules -- and the vmmon module builds, then the vmnet module, and I get "The module loads perfectly in the running kernel." Yay! I say yes to networking of course, and get "Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0". I opt to bridge eth0 to vmnet0. I could define another bridged network but decline (these are all the default values). I do "want to be able to use NAT networking" and it finds the "unused private subnet" 192.168.236.0/255.255.255.0. Then it asks about "host-only networking -- here, as below, I now say "yes" instead of the default no. The script then configures a host-only network for vmnet1 on private subnet 172.16.91.0. I do "want this program to automatically configure your system to allow your virtual machines to access the host's filesystem", and it installs Samba to do so, saying to make sure the samba config file contains a "socket address" line with your real host IP address only. I edit clitunno:/etc/samba/smb.conf by adding this line, as in spello: socket address 128.97.186.215OK, that's enough to start VMware, and it runs fine. It now asks for user names and passwords, which I also add -- but then fails: /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryI ask Petr. libpopt0 is a library for parsing commandline parameters, so it's likely trivial. You can also add more usernames at a later time by invoking the following command as root: /usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd vmnet1 -a <username>So I exit the script. The first time I start vmware I issue this from sigillo: ssh trevi vmware. I get a window saying "Press Ctrl-Alt-Enter to enter full screen mode". To fix this problem install libpopt in /emul, as follows:
/usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd vmnet1 -a steenTo make the networking function correctly, I had to configure and start samba on clitunno -- I borrowed the working Spello configuration, and it worked on the first try. I issue this from sigillo: "ssh trevi vmware", I browse for a virtual machine and I find it at /mnt/cl32/data/vmware/XP/winXPPro.cfg -- it comes right up. I have to discard the suspended state, and define the memory as 1012MB and defined images for the floppy and CD. Everything runs fine -- I install Firefox and Acrobat, and update VMware Tools. So VMware is now running on Clitunno. There are no stability issues. 5 February 2004 update After trying and failing to install the Sims Online, I
upgraded VMware to 4.0. Make sure to call your workgroup WORKGROUP --
otherwise the setup won't find the host and spello/steen. I figured out
how to change the host name (in My Compuer | Properties) and didn't
have to reinstall. However, Sims Online is still not installing. 12 January 2004 update I found the VMware tarball in /vc/software/VMware and copied
it to spello:/usr/src/tarballs. I untarred it to
/usr/src/tarballs/vmware-distrib and ran ./vmware-install.pl, getting
this subnet: The subnet 192.168.218.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. I used defaults for all except this one:
Do you want this script to automatically configure your system to allow your I set up username steen with same password as on sigillo main -- this is for the samba connection. The installation came through as fully successful. Note that you need to use gcc-2.95; VMware 3.0 won't compile with gcc 3.x. For installing Windows XP Pro, I had to use /dev/sr0 as the
CDROM device. I put the OS on /vh/vmware, from which it could in
principle be accessed by VMware running on other nodes. One file
(I386/NEWSTRYS.WM_) was unreadable on the installation CD -- I made a
new CD that may have the problem fixed (burned more slowly). I can also ssh to all machines, including spello (the host) and sigillo (the machine I'm on). On top of it all I can suspend the whole thing to disk and resume instantaneously. This stuff is pretty incredible. Installed eFax reader, crt, Firebird, and MyTrader, and even found the old portfolio pages (not that I need them). Configuration files can be kept on networked drives even in XP -- in fact programs can be run from networked drives, located on other file systems. The whole thing is completely transparent. I also tested that I can copy the files in /vh/vmware/ to another location and have them work fine, so the OS is movable! VMware produces a lot of noise in the error logs. You should try to redirect that noise to dedicated log files. One item that in particular generates messages is the floppy drive. I turned mine off like this:
Logs floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation Losing my floppy isn't a big price to pay in my case, but if
there's another solution that would be great. I also get oodles of
these: vmnet-dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.171.130 to 12:08:97:00:84:00 via vmnet1 I asked on the vmware newsgroup, vmware.for-linux.configuration, and got the response that the messages can be filtered out: Re: Log filesI found these files: /etc/syslog.confHowever, there's no initlog.conf and no /etc/sysconfig/init. The daemons run like this according to ps: /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0I wrote back and Robert responded again: Re: Log filesThe syslog.conf change doesn't really address the issue -- I can ignore logfiles 24 June 2003 update I put a second OS on Spello and reran root@spello:/home/steen# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
I edited spello:/etc/samba/smb.conf -- socket address =
128.97.184.94 and removed hosts allow -- not sure about the syntax
here. At the moment, this samba server is not actually running; the
vmware one is the only one running on spello. I created a user and
password for vmware's samba server and was done. In WinXP, I then opened Windows Explorer and selected Tools | Map network drive and entered \\SPELLO\HOSTFS; this worked -- I got prompted for user and password and the drive was mapped to E:\. Since Spello's main file system is networked, I now have access to the whole network. 24 November 2002 update I decided that I don't need to run a separate Samba server on Spello. What I have to do is simply share the HL-1450 printer to CUPS, which I've not succeeded in doing so far. In the meantime, VMware's samba server is already picking up samba-shared printers, so that system is already working. However, Tim's printers are not yet working in Linux (they're shows as located on /dev/null), and my printer is not yet exported to samba. Anyway, I stopped the Samba server on Spello with a samba stop from root.
Merton remains mounted and I don't think it needs the local server --
/sbin/mount.smbfs //merton/steen /mnt/merton -o rw noexec nosuid nodev
user username steen password uid 500. This, incidentally, appears to be
where the noexec comes from that generates an error on boot. I'll have
to reboot to test this but guess that the samba client doesn't require
a local samba server, except for loopback mounting, which is what I fail
in establishing. Tweaks
Tweak on 22 November 2002 I ran /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl again because Samba wasn't letting me access Spello. I still have no clue how the VMware samba server interfaces with the Spello default Samba server (which you may not need at all if you move the printer to gubbio!! So get rid of the Spello samba server.
That sounds simple enough, but I'm not sure I need Samba on Spello at
all. I should ask the VMware people for advice for the least problematic
setup for my situation -- now I sort of understand what it means to export
a printer to Samba. However, for the moment I'll glory in all the things
that are already working. First installation on spello, 18 November 2002 I got the Workstation for Linux 3.2 tarball and untarred it on spello (it can now be removed), and then ran the perl script (don't try to run this as a bash script!!):
I said yes to all defaults, including invoking /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
(That's the 2.95.4 gcc.)
(The script successfully builds the module.)
(The script successfully builds the module.)
(The instructions say you need to answer no here if you're already running samba, but I couldn't make it work on my own, and vmware runs its own samba server in parallel with the main one -- they don't seem to mind each other. This could be a problem if I want to share a printer, however.)
The second one should be removed [done on 23 Nov 02]. Here are the resulting details obtained from winipconfig.exe:
The configuration file is /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -- note that it's called dhcpd/dhcpd.conf, while the instructions say it's called dhcp/dhcp.conf. The instructions at http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_network10.html#1032424 recommend chosing a static ip address, for instance 192.168.120.127. I couldn't make it work, and let the automated install handle everything. That gave a working system, where I can access the Linux system from the guest OS. I may not be able to set up a shared printer in Samba without sorting out the two Sambas currently running. See Samba. In the end, I stopped samba on spello and installed vmware with all the defaults -- and it worked! In addition, I can still reach merton from spello. I don't really have any use for setting up a samba server -- all I need is the client -- since all the other machines are Linux systems. So I set spellowin up with Dreamweaver -- root on spello:winD and remote on merton. Down the line, I may convert spello:winD to an ext3 directory and remove the fat32 file systems altogether. For the moment, this is all working. |
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