VMware Player 3.0 allows you to create and modify VMs, download the
vmware tools .iso, and uses the Workstation 7 engine. Also, you get
USB device support as well. If you also download the VMware VIX API
package you can use vmrun to script VM startups and shutdowns.
Shrinking the vmdk can be accomplished from the vmware-toolbox once
the tools are installed or by the hard disk properties in the VM
configuration.
Since Player doesn't allow snapshots, I create an updated VM, copy the
vmdk, and then create binary diffs between the 'current' vmdk and the
copy. Cloning is obviously just copying the VM elsewhere.
I've had no problems running Factor under VMware in similar Host/Guest
configurations to yours.
-Adam
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Samuel Tardieu <s...@rfc1149.net> wrote:
> Jon and I have encountered a strange issue when using VirtualBox with 64
> bits Linux hosts: the monotonic counter is not monotonic, with both 32 and
> 64 bits Linux guest systems.
>
> The attached program (compile with "gcc -O2 -o t t.c -lrt") gives an error
> when executed onto the guest system with the following configurations:
>
> Host: 64 bits Linux 2.6.29 x86_64 + VirtualBox 3.0.2, Guest: 32 bits Linux
> 2.6.32 i686
> Host: 64 bits Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 + VirtualBox 3.1.4, Guest: 32 bits Linux
> 2.6.32 x86_64
>
> The monotonic timer jumps backwards in time, causing a critical error in
> Factor.
>
> I've implemented the following stupid hack that can be pulled from
> "git://git.rfc1149.net/factor.git for-slava":
>
> --- a/vm/run.cpp
> +++ b/vm/run.cpp
> @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ void factor_vm::primitive_system_micros()
> void factor_vm::primitive_nano_count()
> {
> u64 nanos = nano_count();
> - if(nanos < last_nano_count) critical_error("Monotonic counter
> decreased",0);
> + if(nanos < last_nano_count)
> + nanos = last_nano_count + 1;
> last_nano_count = nanos;
> ctx->push(from_unsigned_8(nanos));
> }
>
> This does not seem to cause any trouble for Factor itself as the correction
> is a one-time shot every time the problem occurs, and lets us use Factor in
> VirtualBox with a 64 bits host. This should not change anything for systems
> functioning correctly (the test program does not exhibit the bogus behaviour
> when executed directly onto the host system).
>
> Sam
>
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