On 27/05/2009, at 8:10 AM, Jon Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > We have a researcher who would like to have AG installed in > a VMWare virtual machine for distribution. > I've done a quick test with a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.04 (32-bit) > and AG 3.2 beta on VMWare workstation 6.5. > > The venue client can connect to our venueserver but complains > about bridges being disabled in preferences, but I don't see > where to enable the bridges in any of the preference pages. > > Xawtv grabs the Logitech camera and shows video just fine, but > vic chokes and dies with either v4l or v4l2 as a source. > > Before I get any further into this, are there any reasons why > adding this extra layer of complexity will clearly not work? > Or, would it be expected to work for some reason(s)?
Jon, A while back we used Xen to run a "multi machine" AG node - with display in dom0 and video capture (3x) in a guest. It worked fine and, although a bit messy to initially set up, I think its actually a great way to have the benefits of a multi machine node all in a single box. We had that system running here for about a year so there's no reason, in principle, why a VMWare shouldn't work too. There's some info at: http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/xenag/ although its a bit old now (xen-2.0 and kernel 2.6.18) chris Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
