#13068: The VirtualBox image does not work on VMWare.
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Reporter: ronanpaixao | Owner: jason
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-5.1
Component: misc | Keywords: virtualbox, vmware, vm
Work issues: | Report Upstream: N/A
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The Virtualbox appliance does not work right away with VMWare.
When loading the .OVA into VMWare, it allows loading the appliance when
relaxing the OVF specifications. However, when booting the machine, it
gives an error and shuts itself down.
This is due to the Virtualbox Guest Additions coming preinstalled on the
appliance image. This probably prevents the X server from loading and thus
continues on the boot sequence, shutting down.
To work around this issue, one must, after installing the appliance, boot
into recovery mode. On the prompt, one must execute the
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions<version>/uninstall.sh.
If you want to install VMWare Tools, shutdown the machine. Go to the VM's
settings. On the Options tab, select General on the left list. On the
right list, Guest operating system, select Linux and on the version,
select Fedora. Click OK and power on the machine. On the boot menu, select
the recovery option. On VMWare's menu (at least in case of VMWare
Workstation), select VM->Install VMWare Tools. On the command prompt,
execute the following commands:
{{{
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom
cd ~
tar zxvf /mnt/cdrom/VMWareTools-<version>.tar.gz
vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
}}}
Follow the instructions (usually means just hitting a lot of ENTER keys).
Reboot and enjoy.
* This might be related to bug #11330, if one considers to also
automatically build a VMWare appliance.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13068>
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