Using CAELinux with VMWare Player
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18 years 5 months ago #424
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Hi there all,
Really impressed with the CAELinux project. I have downloaded the VMWare version but can't find a .vmx to allow it to run in VMWare Player as your site suggests I can.
Am I doing something silly wrong?
Thanks for your help
Dave D
Really impressed with the CAELinux project. I have downloaded the VMWare version but can't find a .vmx to allow it to run in VMWare Player as your site suggests I can.
Am I doing something silly wrong?
Thanks for your help
Dave D
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18 years 5 months ago #425
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Replied by Joël Cugnoni on topic Re:Using CAELinux with VMWare Player
Hi,
VMWare version of CAELinux is provided in a RAR archive format (with a really high compression of data), so you need to decompress it first with a recent version of WinRAR before you can use it.
If the archive is \"only\" 1.5Gb, the uncompressed \"Virtual Machine\" should use much more space (approx 5-7Gb if I remember well).
Then you can run VMPlayer with the uncompressed .vmx file
VMWare version of CAELinux is provided in a RAR archive format (with a really high compression of data), so you need to decompress it first with a recent version of WinRAR before you can use it.
If the archive is \"only\" 1.5Gb, the uncompressed \"Virtual Machine\" should use much more space (approx 5-7Gb if I remember well).
Then you can run VMPlayer with the uncompressed .vmx file
Joël Cugnoni - a.k.a admin
www.caelinux.com
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18 years 5 months ago #427
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Replied by David Drury on topic Re:Using CAELinux with VMWare Player
Hi there again,
Sorry I didn't state the problem clearly enough. When I decompressed the .rar archive I only had two files
1. The disk image (a .vmdk file)
2. An .nvram file
Neither of these can be launched from VMWare player as it requires a .vmx (vmware virtual machine configuration) file so I can't run it.
Any ideas?
Sorry for the confusion.
Regards
Dave Drury
Sorry I didn't state the problem clearly enough. When I decompressed the .rar archive I only had two files
1. The disk image (a .vmdk file)
2. An .nvram file
Neither of these can be launched from VMWare player as it requires a .vmx (vmware virtual machine configuration) file so I can't run it.
Any ideas?
Sorry for the confusion.
Regards
Dave Drury
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18 years 5 months ago #428
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Replied by Joël Cugnoni on topic Re:Using CAELinux with VMWare Player
Ok now it's clear:
there should have been a problem during the download of the file or decompression, because in the original archive, you shouild have:
Mandrake Linux.nvram
Mandrake Linux.vmdk
Mandrake Linux.vmsd
Mandrake Linux.vmx
and two log files.
In order to make sure that your downloaded file is correct, try to check the MD5sum of the archive:
Utility for windows: www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/
Reference MD5sum: 79f725a2ddae85c0f8e5d6b4c129e2cb
Then please also check that you are using a recent version of Winrar and also that you are decompressing the file to a NTFS partition (4Gb file size limit on fat32).
there should have been a problem during the download of the file or decompression, because in the original archive, you shouild have:
Mandrake Linux.nvram
Mandrake Linux.vmdk
Mandrake Linux.vmsd
Mandrake Linux.vmx
and two log files.
In order to make sure that your downloaded file is correct, try to check the MD5sum of the archive:
Utility for windows: www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/
Reference MD5sum: 79f725a2ddae85c0f8e5d6b4c129e2cb
Then please also check that you are using a recent version of Winrar and also that you are decompressing the file to a NTFS partition (4Gb file size limit on fat32).
Joël Cugnoni - a.k.a admin
www.caelinux.com
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18 years 5 months ago #433
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Replied by David Drury on topic Re:Using CAELinux with VMWare Player
Hi there again,
Thanks for your help. I checked the MD5 sum you sent and the archive is correct so I checked the software that I used to decompress the archive and found the problem. TUGZip apparently doesn't display all of the files in the archive.
Used WinRAR and all the files are there as you said.
Thanks for your help.
Once again, I am well impressed with the CAELinux project, it has helped me a great deal, thanks
Dave Drury
Thanks for your help. I checked the MD5 sum you sent and the archive is correct so I checked the software that I used to decompress the archive and found the problem. TUGZip apparently doesn't display all of the files in the archive.
Used WinRAR and all the files are there as you said.
Thanks for your help.
Once again, I am well impressed with the CAELinux project, it has helped me a great deal, thanks
Dave Drury
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