emerging vmware-workstation-tools on Gentoo
Submitted by Mike Slinn on November 22, 2006 - 1:27pm.
My version of the Gentoo 2006.1 LivePC does not have X installed (it is a virtual server.) When I attempt to emerge world, I get:
$ sudo emerge -DuNav world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-5.5.1 [5.5.2] USE="-X*" 0 kB
Is VMware Tools strictly for X? If so, I should remove it from the installed packages. Here is what I get when I attempt to emerge it:
>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-5.5.1 to /
* checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
* You will need VMwareTools-5.5.1-19175.tar.gz from the VMware installation.
* Select VM->Install VMware Tools from VMware Workstation's menu.
* This ebuild will need the cdrom for vmware-workstation-tools
* If you do not have the CD, but have the data files
* mounted somewhere on your filesystem, just export
* the variable CD_ROOT so that it points to the
* directory containing the files.
* For example:
* export CD_ROOT=/mnt/cdrom
* Please insert+mount the cdrom for vmware-workstation-tools now !
* Press return to scan for the cd again
* or hit CTRL+C to abort the emerge.
* If you are having trouble with the detection
* of your CD, it is possible that you do not have
* Joliet support enabled in your kernel. Please
* check that CONFIG_JOLIET is enabled in your kernel.
Mike
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Can't post new issue
Submitted by Mike Slinn on December 14, 2006 - 2:06am.
I would create a new topic, but for some reason I just get prompted to log in over and over. Apologies for replying off topic.
I want to mount the third partition of a physical IDE drive, formatted as Reiser3, from a Gentoo 2006.1 VM. Using YAReG (http://yareg.akucom.de) I can browse the drive contents from Windows XP; YAReG says the drive is "drive2part2".
I suppose I need to tell the VM that it's OK to access the drive somehow. Do I need to insert new information into the VMX file? If so, what should I add?
You can change the
Submitted by moka5 Demo Account on December 14, 2006 - 11:41am.
You can change the configuration and add the disk by clicking the Configure button. That will update the vmx file for you.
I just created a new topic
Submitted by Kelvin on December 14, 2006 - 11:46am.
I just created a new topic in the forum without any problem. Will debug some more.
More details would be helpful
Submitted by Mike Slinn on December 14, 2006 - 1:09pm.
I would like information on how to specify that Drive 2, partition 2 is to be addressed as a physical drive (both are origin 0). The configuration web page does not appear to allow that. Seems like I'll have to edit the VMX file myself, but I haven't found any documentation for the VMX file format.
Accessing a physical
Submitted by John Whaley on December 21, 2006 - 12:02pm.
Accessing a physical partition is a little bit complicated and not supported in the current version of the LivePC Engine. You could theoretically use the VMware Workstation trial version to generate a partition table file and a vmdk descriptor file, copy those files into the activation/ directory of your LivePC, and edit the vmx file to point to the vmdk descriptor, but I haven't tried it myself.
If you just want to read the files on that disk, you could try to mount your ReiserFS partition in Windows using CrossMeta or ReiserDriver. Once it is available on Windows you could set up the drive as a Windows share and mount it within the LivePC using smbmount. I don't have any experience with those tools so I can't say how well they will work.
-John
emerging world
because installing the vmware workstation tools requires you to download a special package, i already installed them in the base system that you initially subscribed too. this message can be avoided by adding a line
app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools
to /etc/portage/package.mask
the tools provide a vmware based driver for ethernet which should be more efficient than the emulated AMD PCnet32 card that is the default option.
i think if you unmerge the vmware-workstation-tools, it won't delete the kernel module for the network, so that would be ok. i'd recommend just masking the package so you dont install a new version.
hope that helps,
-tj