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Feb
7
And now for some entertainment
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http://www.ultimateshowdown.org/
It’s a mix of very funny and a bit juvenile. Enjoy!
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Feb
7
Fedora on VMware Player Part 2
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The important thing about installing a multi-disc distro with VMware Player is that it will create a lock on the disc so that it will tell you to change discs, yet when you do, it says the same disc is still in there. The way to counter this is to hit the CD-ROM button at the top of the VMware player window. This toggle button controls whether the CD is mounted or not. The first time you will get some warnings, but by clicking cancel you can tell it to ignore the lock the emulator has on the drive. From then on, changing discs during installation is as simple as toggling the button off and on, to let it know a new CD is in.
Overall, the installation has taken about an hour. It may have gone faster if I had given the virtual machine more RAM, but by the time I thought of that, I didn’t want to have to restart the installation. Having used QEMU with DSL, which was extremely slow and non-responsive, I find this to be an adequate solution so far. Given, I haven’t tried anything crazy like trying to play a movie or song, but so far it seems to be just as good as a dual boot without all the crap. On cool thing you can do with the VMware player that you can’t do with dual booting is suspend the sucker. As long as you have as much disc space on your computer as there is RAM allocated to the virtual machine, you can save the state of the machine as opposed to logging out and shutting down completely. Then when you restart, it loads up your computer as it was. This is similar to hibernate, except that you are hibernating one OS to go to another!
Rebooted into Fedora Core 5 test 2. The GRUB image is a lighter blue color as I described was the theme before when I was trying to install it on my laptop. The boot time is comparable to my dedicated Linux machine. Strangely enough, it never prompted me for setting up a user, so I’m forced to login as root. Is this a bug in the installer or a consequence of VMware?
I’ll be exploring some more - probably this weekend, and I’ll post some screenshots.
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Feb
7
Linux on Windows without the Dual-Boot
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VMware has relased their VMware Player player for free. This product acts as a virtual machine (as opposed to an emulator) and is, therefore, supposed to give you much faster speeds than a program like QEMU. You could use it to run Windows on Linux or Linux on Windows. I will go over putting Linux on Windows. First go to http://www.vmware.com/products/player and download the player. Then download the Browser-Appliance. Of course, the easiest way is to download a Linux image which has already been created for you. They have Debian, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, and a few others. However, as I already have CDs of Fedora Core 5 test 2 downloaded, I don’t want to waste bandwidth (and time) downloaded the vmx image. Therefore, I will go over a slightly harder way, but, according to the PDF at this site, it doesn’t appear to be that hard.
So I downloaded VMware Player and the Browser Image file (which I have read is a stripped down ubuntu) and rebooted. I then extracted the zip file for the Browser-Application. (The extraction seemed to take forever and choke up my computer a bit, but it finally happened) I then made a copy of this folder. I then renamed all the files to fedora.
I opened the VMware Configuration File in notpage and changed
ide1:0.fileName = “cdrom-raw”
scsi0.0.fileName=”fedora.vmdk”
uncommented ethernet0.connectionType = “bridged”
comment ethernet0.connectionType = “nat”
nvram = “fedora.nvram”
I double-clicked my fedora file and ubuntu loaded. I didn’t get to tell it to boot from the CD-ROM fast enough, so I told it to reboot. The computer was VERY responsive! I see what happened, I had to click into the virtual machine first, it wasn’t recognizing my F2 presses!
I change ide1:0.startconnected = “TRUE” (it was false before)
That didn’t work so I change deviceType to “auto detect”
success!!!
This must be how they get screenshots of the installation and grub images!
It’s 10:39 as I begin my installation…
I’ve only given the virtual machine 264 MB of ram, but it runs amazingly fast - can’t even tell it’s emulated! I pick my applications for installation. I decide not to go crazy this time and install everything. I just want to get the darned thing working so that I can have the coolness of a working VMWare install.
So why would you want to do this? There are a few reasons.
1) Dual booting can fsck up computers. That is true! It happened to my brother’s brand new Alienware computer when I tried to dual boot Fedora Core 2 for him. The boot tables got all messed up and we had to reformat and reinstall everything!
2) Dual booting requires me exiting my current OS! This can also be annoying! Of course, how feasible it is to run both a VMware emulated Linux boot and a Windows boot depends upon how much memory you have. The more memory you allocate to Linux, the less you have for Windows. Still, I like the idea of being able to run them boot without so much as a reboot.
3) You test Linux distributions for fun or for work. (Although, if you do it for work, you probably already use VMware, QEMU, Zen, or one of the other options) If you are constantly going to be installing different flavors of Linux on your computer, it can become extremely annoying. Each time you install a new OS, some configuration could render your computer useless. With VMware, none of your other OS installations have to know about each other! They are all each contained in their own little world. Another advantage is that you can use the stable version of an OS in one virtual machine while testing the unstable version in another. In fact, you could COPY all of your virtual files from your stable OS into another folder and voila! you can upgrade to the testing version while still keeping your working stable version! It’s like magic!
I’m sure there are other reasons, although I can’t think of them right now. Aha! If you have your children run Windows in a Virtual Machine (or Linux or BSD), then any mistakes they make won’t mess up your real installation. If the “computer” becomes infested with viruses, just delete the virtual image and start again!
About 30 minutes left for the installation to complete, I’ll see you on the other side.
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