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

[Gary]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>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 ...
>  
>
No dice here.
I get two different messages ... not sure when I get one and when I get 
the other.
"No bootable CD ... found"
"file quantian.iso not found"

quantian.iso is in C:\ 
the spelling is  OK.

The ubuntu/firefox demo that VMware ships works great.  It's really cool.

I was given the offer to change the UID before I got your response.  I 
chose "keep".  I would try to change it, but it's not asking me again. 

Does this approach offer the possibility of installing Quantian on a VM, 
giving the option of installing or updating software (persistantly)?

I can't persue this right now ... more later.  I'm wondering if I have 
some kind of HD recognition problem.  I can't use bootfrom either, if 
you recall.  This is a Thinkpad, and it has that hidden partition ... 
but the previous Quantian had no problem.  Do you know anything about 
the syntax "ide0.1.fileName="  ?   OK... When I get back to this I'll 
start reading the VMware docs.  :)

later,
gary


>| 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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