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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 December 2005 at 11:28, Gary wrote:
| 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"

Wrong path to quantian.iso in the .vmx file ?

It worked for others on Windows so maybe someone else can help you here.  

| 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. 

Just delete the files created by the player and start again from the intial
.vmx. 
 
| Does this approach offer the possibility of installing Quantian on a VM, 
| giving the option of installing or updating software (persistantly)?

I don't think so as you cannot write to a compressed iso file.

That said, you cam boot Quantian and run the install-to-hd script at which
point it becomes an almost normal Linux distro (module the Knoppix mods). I
ran one of those but I haven't upgraded them.  This isn't 100% Debian, so
point blank updating risk trampling over some files.  It may be possible, of
course. Google for 'Knoppix Debian upgrade' or similar keywords.

| 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.  :)

If all else fails read the manual :)

Dirk

| 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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