[Grml] Using VMware Workstation on GRML Linux

[Keith Hinton]

I was wondering, how difficult it is to install the Gnome environment
inside the GRML environment when installed onto a hard-disk drive?
Probably an aptitude-install Gnome does it.
However, Hear is what I was wanting to know.
I have purchased the VMWare Workstation package, and have a registered
serial number for it.
It's a standard tar formatted file, with a Tar.GZ extention added onto
the end of it.
Extracting it isn't my problem.
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?
I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have
gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation.
Could anyone contact me with instructions on this process? Thanks.
Regards, --Keith

[Johannes Kastl]

Post by Keith Hinton
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?

You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl,
which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/,
/etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).

So basically I would say the procedure is the same as with any other
linux distribution.

Post by Keith Hinton
I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have
gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation.

Gnome should have any kind of autostart.

Regards,
OJ
--
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners.
(unknown)

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Post by Johannes Kastl

Post by Keith Hinton
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?

You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl,
which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/,
/etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).

AFAIK, grml uses file-rc instead of sys-rc, so better use update-rc.d to
make sure that it can launch at boot.

check the steps at
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/virtual/vmware/vm03-VmwareInstallation/ar01s02.html#grml_speicific_configuration

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Post by Johannes Kastl

Post by Keith Hinton
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?

You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl,
which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/,
/etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).

AFAIK, grml uses file-rc instead of sys-rc, so better use update-rc.d to
make sure that it can launch at boot.

check the steps at
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/virtual/vmware/vm03-VmwareInstallation/ar01s02.html#grml_speicific_configuration

[T o n g]

Post by Johannes Kastl

Post by Keith Hinton
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?

You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl,
which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/,
/etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).

AFAIK, grml uses file-rc instead of sys-rc, so better use update-rc.d to
make sure that it can launch at boot.

check the steps at
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/virtual/vmware/vm03-VmwareInstallation/ar01s02.html#grml_speicific_configuration

[Johannes Kastl]

Post by Keith Hinton
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?

You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl,
which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/,
/etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).

So basically I would say the procedure is the same as with any other
linux distribution.

Post by Keith Hinton
I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have
gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation.

Gnome should have any kind of autostart.

Regards,
OJ
--
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners.
(unknown)

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[Johannes Kastl]

Post by Keith Hinton
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware
services on boot of GRML itself?

You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl,
which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/,
/etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).

So basically I would say the procedure is the same as with any other
linux distribution.

Post by Keith Hinton
I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have
gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation.

Gnome should have any kind of autostart.

Regards,
OJ
--
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners.
(unknown)

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