VMWare

[ruben12345]

Downloaded VMware, and other assoc. z files from rockbox site. Installed. When asked for configuration file, I click on unzipped rockbox file-it gives a message, running low on physical memory. If you reboot vmplayer could try making more space and though I reboot I keep getting the same message, though there's about 5 GB sitting on my Hard drive. Could some one help me Out ? I tried reinstalling the entire package again, but of no avail. Please help !!

[Febs]

Memory and hard drive space are two completely different things.

Look at this post:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=4689.msg50874#msg50874

Be sure to read the entire post as the bit about changing memory is at the end.

[Arni]

i installed VMWare yesterday and the thing is running,ok.
BUT how do I get the rockbox files into this virtual environment so I can edit them and develope myself?
thx for any info
arni

[Febs]

Follow the instructions here for checking out a copy of CVS:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=UsingCVS

[ruben12345]

Well at this point I'm down in my boots. I'd really like to start some serious compiling but for some reason I cannot get my cygwin or VMPlayer installed. I would be really grateful if someone could help me out.

I tried cygwin initially, but It wouldn't install past the 50% mark. It kept giving me some close down error on unisimulator and the next window would be a Dr. Watson debugger...... error. I tried cygwin using minimum installation but of no avail. So I decided to switch to vmplayer 'cause there are files out on the net to setup a virtual env.

VMplayer gives me the following error ...

Not enough physical memory to setup virtual env. Please try rebooting and vmplayer could try making additional space......

I tried following a another document on this post a couple of days back memory=256 in the config file but that doesn't work. And I tried installing the same software on another friend's machine and I get exactly the same problem. Please .....some tech please help me out. I need this so bad.

Thanks....

[scorche]

You can set the memsize to even lower if you wanted...but did you also reboot and load it on a fresh boot?

[ruben12345]

yes, of course. I did reboot and also tried installing the entire software on another machine with the same results.

Is there any other source from where I can download and what files do I need to download.

[DanManners]

I know this is just SLIGHTLY noobish, but could someone direct me to a page to help set up samba in VMware? I can NOT figure it out for the life of me :-( thanks

-Dan

[scorche]

As I told you in the PM, the rockbox VMware image has the samba share already set up.

To access it, open up any windows explorer window, type "\\debian\user" in the address bar, then when the authentication window pops up, type "user" as the username and "rockbox" as the password.  You should now be in your VMware home dir.

[bascule]

...the rockbox VMware image has the samba share already set up.

To access it, open up any windows explorer window, type "\\debian\user" in the address bar, then when the authentication window pops up, type "user" as the username and "rockbox" as the password.  You should now be in your VMware home dir.

Well, I've tried setting up VMware tonight (Windows XP, VMware player in C:/Program files/..., VMware image in M:/VMware), and it has not set up the virtual drive path for me. Error message: 'Windows cannot find '\\debian\user''

I had checked out CVS OK, did 'configure', 'make' and 'make zip' OK. I can see the zip file has been created in my 'user@debian\rockbox-devel\build' folder, so I'm happy that the whole process works, it's just that I cannot see it from Windows.

The \\debian\user path just does not exist. I've used IE, Start>Run..., and Network Neighborhood and it's not there

I managed to get the zip file in my posession by FTPing it from VMware to my webspace and then FTPing it back into Windows and it works fine, but that's a really long-winded way to work, especially once I start applying patches.

I also asked in IRC, but nothing suggested there worked.

Can I either get the path set up manually, or mount the windows drive within VMware somehow just to give me that link from VMware to Windows to allow me to start working?

[iPodFoo]

Might be an idea to check the vmware processes are running ok while youre running it. Press ctrl+shft+esc to show the processes. There should be:

vmnat.exe
vmnetdhcp.exe
vmount2.exe
vmplayer.exe
vmware-authd.exe
vmware-vmx.exe

One (or more) of them allows communication between vmware and xp, Im not sure which, could be the vmware-authd.exe.

Anyway, when vmware is not running at all, theres 3 processes that should still be running, they should be started up by windows when you boot windows up, I think theyre, vmware, vmnat and vmware-authd. If theyre not running, run the services.msc and check all related vmware services are set to automatic.

Might not work, but it did for me.

[scorche]

I have had this issue before.

Make sure that both VMnet1 and VMnet8 both show up and are active in Network Connections.  Also make sure that in VMware, the Ethernet button at the top is active.

Typically, I just reboot the virtual machine to get it working again.  Player > Troubleshoot > Reset

[bascule]

Thanks for your help, I''ll try them tonight when I get home...

Not sure about the rebooting one, however, as it has never worked and I've run the .vmx setup twice from scratch and rebooted both the virtual machine and Windows in between...

I'll see how it goes.

[pabouk]

Typically, I just reboot the virtual machine to get it working again.  Player > Troubleshoot > Reset

I would not recommend using hard reset without shutting down the system because it can corrupt the file system.

Instead run "shutdown -h now" as root and then Player > Troubleshoot > Reset. If you just want to reboot the Linux run "shutdown -r now" or press Ctrl-Alt-Insert.

[Multiplex]

I have also had trouble with VMWare player and samba, it seems to be related to sleeping the virtual machine. Reboot cures it.

But now I know I'll try shutdown ...