On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> I'm now officially into #6 above and I don't have a clue where to go. >>> ;-) (Of course, anyone here who has good info I'm up for receiving >>> it. Drop me a note privately or post back on this list as long as >>> folks subscribed here have an interest in watching me struggle a bit!) >>> ;-) >> >> I was having issues with vmware a while ago (I forget the details), and I >> ended up switching to v2 of vmware-server, which is in the vmware overlay >> (available via layman). This version eliminates the need to have >> vmware-server-console as it has a web-based management system with a plugin >> for console access (works fine on firefox). >> >> Vmware uses a kernel module, so you need to be root to get it started up >> (you can put it in your init.d). Once you set everything up you can log in >> as an ordinary user via the management console. >> >> I agree with your points on antivirus/etc. I just run avast so licensing >> isn't an issue - just set it up on each VM. I don't think you'll find any >> virus solutions that will work through the virtualization layer, but you >> might find some whose license agreement permits installation on multiple VMs >> with a single license (probably on the honor system). >> >> > > Hi Richard, > I reinstalled vmware and in doing so saw that there were additional > requirements that I hadn't noticed yesterday: > > 1) Add users to the vmware group > 2) Start the vmware process using the normal setup (rc-update vmware > add default) > > Having done that I can now run as root the VM I built yesterday as > root so that's good news. > > I'm now puzzling through how this is all supposed to done from a > security point of view: > > 1) I must run vmware as root to do overall settings. How much memory > to use overall, how much to swap, other global things like that. When > in the console as root I can see the machines users in the group have > set up. > > 2) As a user I run vmware and should (I think) be able to create my > VMs. I do that preallocating my hard drive space and assigning two CDs > to the XP and ME iso file. So far however when XP actually tries to > install (as a user) it says it cannot find a hard drive on the system. > The files are there where they are supposed to be so possibly I have > some permissions problem? I guess it's trying to use SCSI emulation to > make the file look like the virtual hard drive but it's not working as > a user. > > Anyway, I am making some headway. > > One question - is there a way for me to simply copy the > installation root did yesterday and use it today as a user? That would > be very cool and would save hours of install time. Seems like a > natural so I'm sure there's some way to do it. > > Thanks, > Mark
Should be as simple as copying the data files over to wherever they are stored for your user account, changing owner, and then opening it with the vmware GUI.
