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Yes,<br>
As mentioned to Micha, at this late stage of the release cycle, I
think that we risk having docs which are not as good as they could
be due to being rushed through the review process, or if we do
allocate time to review, we may be drawing our developers away from
important bug fixing.<br>
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So I'd prefer to leave further vm docs till our 6.0 release. The one
concession I could be convinced to included, would be to add a "See
Also" heading at the end of the virtualbox quickstart, which could
have links to a wiki and/or vmware page.<br>
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On 14/02/2012 7:49 AM, Micha Silver wrote:
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Thanks for reviewing.<br>
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After a few quick emails with Cameron, It was decided at this late
stage to wait until 6.0 rather than include an incomplete page. My
idea was to have a link in the index (main help page), as you
mentioned, to a "vm-overview" document which will briefly explain
the advantages of running in a virtual machine, and will include
three (at least) links to other documents:<br>
* the vmware_quickstart<br>
* a virtualbox quickstart<br>
* how to create a vm from the iso (the existing virtual_box
quickstart)<br>
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On 13/02/2012 22:29, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi folks,
thanks for writing this quickstart guide! I picked up the origin
version and translated it to German. While I've done this I updated
the English version as well (minor changes to have a better copy and
paste user experience for the Terminal commands ;)).
The current state is, that there is a single page that isn't
references anywhere else. IMHO we should add a doc: reference within
one or all of the following pages:
* osgeolive_quickstart
* virtualbox_quickstart and
* index as well.
In addition the cross reference should be complete from the other side
too, means from the vmware_quickstart in a see also section back to
other documents, template can be copied from virtualbox_quickstart
(See also)
Any other suggestions where to add cross references?
The second I would like to mention is the creation process of the
configuration with the easyvmx service. I guess the description is
well done but in case of an "offline" host, this quickstart would'nt
work. I also work with vmware player and vmware fusion and please
correct me if I'm wrong, but its not necessary to use as service like
easyvmx.
I've done the following steps:
- download
- unzip
- open vmware fusion (mac) / vmware player (linux, windows)
- "New" without an ISO image
- use an existing virtual divice/hdd</pre>
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AFAIK, in VMWare Player this doesn't work. It only recognizes an
already configured *vmx*.<br>
<br>
The only way I've found to work around this is to create a VM with
no OS. THen after it's ready to use, add an additional HDD. Here
you can choose the existing vmdk for the additional disk. Now you
remove the original (empty) disk, and it should work. But this
seems more convoluted that just making a vmx. Perhaps we could add
this procedure as an additional quickstart for offline VM use?<br>
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<pre wrap="">- choose the vmdk file
- properly confirm to convert, if there is a version mismatch
- change configuration (RAM and CPU) which leads to a save dialog to
save the vmx file.
- done.
Could anybody confirm this with an VMWare Player installation on
Linux. I'll try this on windows tomorrow...
An other cool idea would be an enhanced build script that already
creates a vmx file where the filename and the references within
matching the vmdk file. This vmx file could be zipped as well with
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Yes, it would be nice, but disk size, and memory allocation would
make it hard to be really applicable everywhere. I guess you could
offer a minimal 1GB of RAM, 20GB HDD, no sound, and hope it
works...<br>
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Regards,<br>
Micha<br>
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Thanks
Frank
2012/2/6 Micha Silver <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:micha@arava.co.il"><micha@arava.co.il></a>:
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<pre wrap="">On 06/02/2012 07:41, Hamish wrote:
Micha wrote:
I've prepared and uploaded to the svn trunk/doc/en/quickstart
directory an explanation of setting up an OSGeo VM using the
VMWare Player.
(I made no changes to the existing main quickstart, nor the
osgeo_install files, so this new vmware quickstart won't appear
anywhere yet, until it has been reviewed and a link entered into
one of the main quickstarts)
Comments/criticism welcome...
rendered view:
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Thanks, anything that needs to be added?
Hamish
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