Deryk,
Yes, using VMWare to run the workstation is absolutely possible.
In fact, that is how I developed 2.09pre2.
I did this on my laptop, which is running Redhat 7.0.
I saved the etherboot driver as 'pcnet32.rom', and told VMware that was
my floppy drive.
In the dhcpd.conf file, I used 'NIC=pcnet32' to pass to the kernel.
My vmware networking is set at "bridged", and it seems fine.
Once you get it booting, then you need to setup the lts.conf file properly.
If you look at the lts.conf file that I supplied in the 2.09pre2 release,
the ws004 entry is setup for VMware. the X4_BUSID line is real important.
Then, I set X_MODE_0 = 800x600, so it wouldn't take up my whole laptop
screen.
This works great, by the way.
If you get this far, then you will probably notice how the network
interface seems
really slow. Especially downloading the kernel image.
I fixed that by setting up the dummy0 interface, instead of eth0. This
required a bit of
hacking though. dhcpd didn't want to listen on the dummy0 interface.
Luckily, it was
a simple change to the dhcpd source code ( I LOVE HAVING SOURCE CODE ! ).
Then, VMware wouldn't work with dummy0, so I found the vmware-config.pl
script
and modified it to allow dummy0 as an interface.
I really should write this stuff up and post it on the ltsp site, but I
just haven't had the time.
One more thing. Ethereal is a great packet analyzing tool. But, it
doesn't like dummy0
either. Once again, having the source code took care of that little issue.
It was really cool, having a virtual workstation booting up, then
running a local app, like
Netscape on the workstation, all on the same laptop. Which will kind of
warp your mind,
if you think about it too much.
Hope that helps you,
Jim McQuillan
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Deryk Robosson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> I tried LTSP about a year and a half ago with success and thought that I would give
>it a
>try again earlier this week. Not having a spare machine any longer to use for a
>guinnea
>pig I decided to try using vmware instead. I downloaded all the necessary ltsp 2.2
>tarballs, installed (after removing checks for my current distro which is a mix of
>Mandrake 8.0 and Cooker releases) with no problems, figured out which NIC vmware
>emulated (lancepci), manually fixed the MAC in the vmware configuration, setup ltsp
>per
>the installation guide. I cranked up vmware with the boot floppy rom image I
>created, it
>detected the dhcp server and attempted to begin to download the kernel but stopped at
>that point as the current vmware network setup I am using is bridged (same IP for
>both
>host and guest) which I think is the problem. Has anyone else been successful in
>this
>area of using vmware as a test bed?
>
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