[Quantian-general] Run Quantian iso via the free VMware Player on Windows or Linux

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 December 2005 at 10:35, Gary wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| >Tom Short had emailed me about his success in running the Quantian 0.7.9.1
| >iso alongside Windows XP on his laptop.  This uses the 'free as in beer'
| >VMware Player which is available for Windows and Linux "hosts". 
| >  
| >
| A question while downloading:  quantian.vmx has a lot of address info in 
| it.  Do these need to be customized to suit my machine?
| If so, which entries? and what are they asking for?

I didn't change anything. On startup at the first time, it complained about
the UID. I accepted a new UID with the "create" button in the bottom right.
It is quite possible that this "phones home" to vmware and hence notices that
it is no longer unique.

Other than that, the only change I made is to quantian_0.7.9.1.iso as my
local copy is lowercased ...

| I find the VMware site hard to navigate.  Couldn't even find a mention 
| of vmx files.
|
| (Maybe this will be obvious when I try it, but it's sure to be a FAQ  :)  )

Yes, so thanks for bringing it up here.
 
Dirk
 
| >So far, I only had time for a brief trial on my (Kubutu) Linux desktop which
| >I summarised in a short post at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/
| >
| >I had this set up in literally a few minutes, and ended up with 
| > - two emulated Quantian sessions, each at 256mb on a 1gb desktop 
| > - these suspend ram to a diskfile on exit and "rebooted" instantly to the
| >   exact same state -- very nice feature
| > - offer cdrom, soundcard, usb 2.0 and networking, I only tried networking
| >   which worked like a charm (fast webbrowsing etc)
| > - I tried openMosix between two instances but no real success there; this 
| >   may require some work on the networking configuration.
| >
| >I had one inquiry regarding Windows as a host, and I'd love to get feedback
| >on that. My goal is two new short Quantian HOWTOs for Linux and Windows, and
| >I will need help on the Windows part.
| >
| >Cheers, Dirk
| >
| >  
| >
| 
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