Vmware for Slackware 11
Hi all before i start i want to point out that i have visited both of these sites and carreid out all the suggested methods for installing vmware on slackware 11.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...install+vmware http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4265 none of them work! When i try to configure vmware i get the following error: Quote:
Thanks The Yikes |
So you want a virtual machine. The only one I succeeded in installing was virtualbox.
You can install either the binary or from source. |
Look's Promising!
Hey H_TeXMeX_h!
Sweet! just looked at the site looks promising, i'll give it a whirl and see what i think! Oh mna i've been tearing what litle hair i have left out over this! It's not that it's a life or death thing it's just that once i get an idea in my head i NEVER let go! Well i'm finished downloading so chat to you soon! Thanks Again! :) |
What the !!!!????!!!!
Okay i just downloaded the package for All Distros, but it saved off witht the extenstion ".run" ? I thought okay I'll try renaming it...Didnt work....Maye i'll try the rpm package and rpm2tgz it....no joy!
What the fudging brownie is a ".run" file? Oh Man! i'm getting old! Hahahaha is it like an sh filename.run thing? |
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You run the .run just like a script or executable. Like
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Install complete....however!
Well as i had anticipated there was a hitch! and here it is in all it's glory!
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Hmmm ... I guess check the users manual or their forums. I haven't done anything extensive with it ... so I wouldn't know too much on how to troubleshoot it.
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Well you live and learn!
Well the best thing about being a complete halfwit is the fact thgat you learn new things everyday! I was running Virtualbox as root! and well aparently it has some issue with that?
So i logged onto my girlfriends account which i setup as just a standard account, now it's telling me there are no read or write privs for /dev/vboxdrv I'm goona have a swing at setting up a new account. Have to say though i'm not all that clued in as far as that goes! |
you have to change the permissions of '/dev/vboxdrv'
see my post here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...76#post2598076 Code:
# now you should give yourself read/write access to /dev/vboxdrv, I think the best way to do this is to chown it, but you can also chmod it, so you can do either or both: |
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vmware.SlackBuild
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I ran VirtualBox as root (in order to make it work under a user account more configuration is needed). Just configure the network as Host Interface Networking, not NAT (for NAT more configuration is needed too - TUN, ...,see 5.3.2 from User Manual)
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VirtualBox running but no net?!?
Well as usual i have followed TO THE LETTER! the advice in this forum and it comes as no great surprise that i got VirtualBox running as a result! Sweet! Now in relation to zaert's comments i have set the network connections to Host Interface....just on problem.. what the heck does the following mean?
--------------------------------------------------------------- Host Interface Settings Interface Name (i'm assuming it's ra0 like it is in slackware) Setup Application (? what the !"£$ is this) Terminate Application (Again huh!?!) --------------------------------------------------------------- oh man i think i should take up something easier like knitting!!! EDIT: maybe i should make my question a little clearer, isit possible to connect to the web or a network from within a virtual box? Thanks The Yikes ADDENDUM: ok so i've just read up about parprouted and apparently i need i it!?! see: http://www.hazard.maks.net/blog/inde...d=163&blogId=1 so i have it installed, so how now do i setup ip fprwoarding?? Thanks again the yikes |
Tunctl
Hey All,
Okay the whole networking thing on VirtualBox seems pretty straight forward enough execpt when it comes down to tunctl and setting up the virtual device "tap0". Iv'e installed Tunctl from a tgz package i rooted out on the web but it's failing to setup the device in /dev/net/ or in /dev/misc/net! anyone have any clues as to what the problem might be? Thanks The Yikes |
VirtualBox Success
Woohoo! finally have it all working!
In my haste to install tunctl, which i was only doing after countless google searches informed me i need it. I neglected to even consider that tunctl might actually be part of a larger program.... well now i know it is! It's a part of a collection called UML or user mode linux. Anyway after installing that i was able to get the network connectin up and running by applying the NAT otion in VirtualBox in the network settings section. Now i have the comfort of designing site's in linux and being able to test them in win...... you get the point! Thanks ppz for all the info! The Yikes! |
Hi,
I am currently evaluating virtualbox and have a similar problem to your initial one: I can not access internet from a guest machine where the (virtual) interface is configured for NAT. Can you precisely describe how you solved this?? Thanks a lot, Regards, Vincent |
I use vmware server on my desktop and it runs great except for the fact I have to run vmware-configure at every reboot(which thankfully is not often), if I dont the vmmon module is not built and loaded...just haven't had time to try and figure out why. By the way, why does every one always use petri's any-anywhere patch? I run a 2.6 kernel and never had to run that??
Anyways glad to see you got it sorted out. |
Networking is a breeze!
Hi Vincent B,
i'm not actually at my pc at the moment, but rest assured it's a total breeze to get it setup and running like a watch. I should be home in about 2 hours and i'll post the instructions then. Sorry i cant be more help right now, but as i mentioned 2 hours from now and you'll be running virtualbox without any hassles! The Yikes |
Here's the soloution!
Hi Vincent B,
Sory for the delay in getting back to you but i'm here now! Okay in order to get the virtual box connected to the net your going to have to bridge your connections. To do this you need the following packages (I've taken the liberty of supplying the links) First package is: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/u...040406.tar.bz2 This is "user mode linux" and it has a number of network tools in it, the one your going to be using is "TUNCTL" Second package is: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/b...irror=optusnet This allows you to create the bridge between the card on your linux box and the virtual card in virtualbox. The main prog in this is "BRCTL" Download the above files and install them. Having done this enter the following commands in a konsole window! Quote:
Start you Virtual MAchine and all going well you should be up and running. PLEASE let me know how you get on with this! Thanks The Yikes |
Hey the-yikes!
Whats up! Are you feeling better? I heard a while back that you got into a bad car crash. Okey back to subject. I installed virtualbox with no problems but can I use this program to start windows from slack? Since I'm still dual-booting window$ / slack can I start the windows image from the windows partition in slackware? I don't want to create a different image on my slack because I want to be able to use my windows install on the HD from slackware so I can use some programs and stuff without having to reboot into windows. Thanks |
Hi Nem!
Hey NEM!
Yeah getting better still stuck in physio though, thanks for asking! Well the setup i have is this: Slackware installed as the only OS on a 200GB drive I have installed VirtualBox and then installed window$ as a dynamic vdi image file meaning it will gor or shrink accordingly. You dont need to setup and window$ based partitions, as VirtualBox Reads the VDI it emulates a window$ file system and loads it. It actually see the VDI as a Standalone drive so you dont have to play with partitions. I hope this is what your looking for? or maybe i misunderstood your question....it happens ALOT with me! hahaha! I can give you a more detailed set of install instructions if you like? Thanks The Yikes |
No no,
What I meant is I have windows and slackware installed on my HD.Is it possible to start windows from slackware? I want to start the windows that is installed on the HD. Is that possible? Or I have to make a image on slackware then I can start windows? |
Booting within a boot!
Alas NEM in my experience this is to the best of MY knowledge not possible, or at least not with any Virtual Machine apps that i have seen. This is a down side and it's remarkable to say the least that nobody has yet come up with a sort KVM switch for operating systems!
I'm going to have a look around the net to see what if any soloutions there are to your question.... which i have to point out is a peach of a question and one i'm surprised i have not yet seen asked. Anyay i'm off to accumulate some knowledge on the matter so chat to you soon! Thanks The Yikes Quote:
Thanks (Again The Yikes |
Well okey that answered my questions,
thanks.I don't really any big reasons to dual boot and switch at runtime but thought it be cool to do it. But I still will make a windows image and the virtualbox program when I got some free time. Thanks, Nem P.S. But if you ever hear of someone coming up with a program that will let you boot another os as a virtual machine send me a pm! |
Well, I guess the thing is there is no real need for such a program. I mean, you do it one way or the other ... why would you want both ways ?
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Quick boot (load), print the doc, exit. :)
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Man, vmware is insanely difficult to setup right. I know I've tried before ... but it's such a pain, and it doesn't have to be. I dunno, I prefer virtualbox ... at least it's easier to setup.
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Yeh the first time I did it, it was kinda rough, but the second time was way easy and been running ever since, I run Fedora(for Nagios) and FreeBSD(DNS, MySQL replication etc) within it.
Back to the question(sorry OP not trying to steal thread) I asked at the beggining of this thread, why the any to any patch... I run a very new kernel > 2.6.15 usually and never had issues. Just asking...don't know if there is someting I am missing err. @Chuck56 When you reboot, do you have to rerun vmware-config.pl or? I can't seem to have vmmon and the devices load, although they are present... just asking. |
You need an any-any update if your running a new kernel. 2.6.15 is hardly new. vmware craps out when trying to build the modules if your running 2.6.20 or 2.6.21... Thus the any-any update fixes this.
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Shows how in tune I stay with kernel series. Been on 2.6.15 for about a year on my desktop. I do have 2.6.21 on my laptop....woohoo!
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I've gotten VMWare to work... I had to do a:
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# mkdir /etc/pam.d the above script looks promising too. (I think I have all my steps documented if interested.) |
@Micah If you want to post your steps that would be cool, I have vmware working just have to rerun configure after every reboot(which thankfully is not often), but I think with what you and Chuck56 have said it is a pam issue, I can figure it out over the long weekend.
I followed this guide the last time I set it up. Thank you. |
On the Slackware newsgroup I saw a very good and clear tutorial about setting up VMWare Server on Slackware 11: http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/vmware.html
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Hello,
Sorry to repost to a couple week old thread. I had a chance to reconfigure vmware server on my desktop and this time, did everything under /etc/rc.d and this fixed the problem of needing to recompile after reboot. I also had a chance to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21 and indeed needed to run the any-to-any patch. Just wanted to update, thanks all. |
For vmware, you need vmware-any-any-updateX
Google that or try this link http://www.vmware.com/community/thre...threadID=26693 |
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We've already covered this, to both of you... He is talking about the any-any update you already aplied. In this case, X = 110
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I know we did, thats why I asked why it was being covered again.
I simply added to the post what I did to fix recompiles after reboots, and reiterated what you said about the any to any patch. |
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