I recently found this OS: http://www.kaios.org/. I was wondering how I can install it on VMWare Fusion. There is no .iso or .vmx that it comes with.
Please understand, I'm still learning about Linux and how it works. I'm using Mac if it makes any difference. Thank you!
KaiOS is a small operating system which isn't typically like a Linux distro which you are probably more familiar with. As a result it won't come with an installer or come on an .iso which you could load as an image into VMWare.
The KaiOS site documentation shows you how to boot the OS via PXE, which you could do with VMWare although would need to set up a PXE server VM as well as another VM which you would boot via PXE from the server you set up.
You won't be able to traditionally install this OS via loading an image unfortunately.
There is some documentation on PXE with VMWare here.
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We have a machine running Windows Server 2008 for Running virtual machines. We want to move this machine to the Linux environment. We will also install VMWare on the new operating system. We are considering using CentOS. Is there someone on CentOS using VMWare? On which operating system would it be advantageous to use VMWare?
Please read supported OP Systems, by VM.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCenter-Converter-Standalone/6.2/com.vmware.convsa.guide/GUID-088E735A-CB88-4790-9BF2-EA0B9E34867F.html
A lot of people or company just using Windows.
The question is not answered by forum, but helpful to decide: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/512089
Hope it helps!
Long story short, I bought a pre-installed linux laptop and would like to be able to run other linux distros, but use the same linux drivers w/ other distro so as to have all my hardware work flawlessly as it does with the custom linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
If I could save or copy all of my hardware drivers someplace to reinstall once I've got a new linux distro installed.
So far I think the answer lays in compiling a linux kernel and modules from my running linux laptop, and try to get flashed in my new linux distro that I'm installing. Not sure if that will work? or is the easiest method.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
i just want my linux workstation hardware to work as good as it does w/ Ubuntu 14.04, with any linux distro I choose to try.
Thanks in advance
A bit weired, but, as far as I gnow:
you can do the thing you ask for to customize the same distribution.
"Compiling a linux kernel and modules from my running linux laptop": You said the running one, so You can pick it instead directly from "/boot/vmlinuz-KERNEL_VERSION
"If I could save or copy all of my hardware driver": You can copy the content of "/lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION" folder in the same emplacement in the target. This folder contains kernel modules, among others, device drivers.
After having these in place, you can make the drivers working with "modprobe", you should have a list for all modules (you might use "lsmod" in the original system) and load them one by one or find a way that manage to load them all at once for you; in CentOS, there is a scrpit "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" that can among other stuffs, do that for you.
I really wonder why you are worried about drivers on Linux distributions, coz, as far as I know, they are really good when it comes to device drivers.
I am currently trying to download a few server versions of Linux operating systems in order to compare which is best in terms of memory usage etc. I am running these off of the vmware program and have managed to download the ubuntu server and desktop ok. However, I cannot seem to find any version of red hat that isn't free, or indeed the server versions of Mint and Fedora. I have managed to download Fedora only to discover it was the desktop version which doesn't have a terminal and any time I have downloaded a version of Mint(any version at all), when I run it on vmware player, it tells me that vmware player does not recognise the operating system and then nothing else happens. I have been sure to download the iso file for these as well but with no success.
Does anyone know then any links where I can download the servers for Mint, Fedora and Red Hat that actually work? it is very frustrating that it hasn't worked so far.
Most available ISO images will fit into Vmware. However, you can find some of the images below
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/
Can anyone point me into the right direction to use a VMWare installation of Ubuntu or another Linux distro as a development server on my local machine?
I'm on a Windows 7 32bit machine and currently using WAMP.
I'm noticing some differences between developing on a windows machine and my deployment server and additionaly I'd like to expand my knowledge on working on linux using the command line.
Follow-up question, what would be the best way to develop on my local installation and push that development to my VPS that I'm renting?
I'd suggesting downloading a LAMP appliance from http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/cat/0?k=lamp if you don't want to get into building your own, and running that on VMWare Player.
If you want to build your own, you could use VMWare Server, Oracle VirtualBox or any other Virtualization software. Create a New VM, with 512MB or RAM, and 4GB (+ the requirements of your tools + a buffer of 2GB) of disk. I recommend 10GB, or you could set it up for maybe 50GB and let the virtual disk grow as needed rather than allocating all the space up front.
Then, download the Ubuntu Server 12.04 ISO file from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server , and use it as the CD Drive to boot your VM. Follow the on-screen instructions to install. And at the end, select the options to install the LAMP configuration.
Note: Using Ubuntu's server edition means you don't get any GUI.
I've an linux image(debian) running on VMWare ESX 3.1.
Is it possible to copy that image and run it locally on my local VMWare workstation?
how?
Just open up the VI client, shut down the VM, browse to the datastore and then download the image. Pretty straightforward really, I do it from ESXi 3.5 -> Workstation 6.5 all the time.
I believe that while ESX (commercial) is reverse-compatible to Server (free), Server is NOT forward-compatible to ESX.
Therefore, you can import Server images to ESX, but not the other way around.
You may be able to go from an ESX host to an ESXi (free) host, however.
As far as I remember that was exactly what I did a few weeks ago. I exported the image (export facility is included in the ESX, but you'll have to power off the image while you export it). Once the image was exported I ran it through the VMware converter (free tool) and converted it to run on a workstationr/player.
However my laptop always crashes when I install VMWorkstation so I run it om a VMPlayer.
We also have such an environment and are working on it since past 5 years. We have ESXi 3.5 virtualized environment running Centos OS virtual machines amongst others. To use the virtual machine from ESXi on our local machine, we have installed VMWare Workstation (also VMWare Player). We take a complete mondo backup using mondoarchive. We then transfer these images on our local machine. From these images, we restore the ESXi based virtual machine in our local VMWare Workstation environment. It has been a great success for last five years and we have never faced any problem with it.
Kasper, what version of ESX are you running? Trying to export an image from our ESX server always ends in a I/O error (don't have access to the server right now so I cannot remember the exact error message).
Would love to get this feature working but I not found anything on the web that might help with this specific error.
You can also user Vizioncore vConverter or FastSCP for your migration.
This is a nice article describes how to convert different images: Please go throught it.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/vmware-converter.html