[ale] CentOS virtual appliance in Fusion

[Asher Vilensky]

Execute the .vmx file and you're done.

But, you're not really done, yet.  :-|
It turns out that the appliance's publisher provided a user name/password,
which is not a power user.  So you have to boot into single user mode to
change the password for root.  Why do I mention it (beside the intention to
make life easy for the next guy)?  Because by the time you download the
appliance and go through all the hoopla, you might as well download the iso
image and install the standard way.  The appliance hardly saves you any time
and you depend on somebody else's installation-plus-packaging.  Just my
take.


-- Asher


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> Do share.
>
> On 8/24/09, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Got [most of] my questions answered from the VMWare community.  No need
> to
> > reply.
> >
> > -- Asher
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Asher Vilensky
> > <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Of course, this is more of a Fusion question than Linux, so half-OT.
> >> Sorry.
> >>
> >> -- Asher
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Asher Vilensky
> >> <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> I'm a Mac user with Fusion. I downloaded the CentOS 5.2 (Desktop, not
> >>> server) virtual appliance. I expanded the 7z file. Now I have a
> directory
> >>> that contains
> >>>
> >>> CentOS5-f001.vmdk CentOS5-f005.vmdk CentOS5.vmx
> >>> CentOS5-f002.vmdk CentOS5.nvram CentOS5.vmxf
> >>> CentOS5-f003.vmdk CentOS5.vmdk users.txt
> >>> CentOS5-f004.vmdk CentOS5.vmsd users.txt~
> >>>
> >>>  What's the next step? I tried "Import", but all files are grayed out.
> I
> >>> tried "new VM" and then pointing to the vmdk file. That continued
> >>> "successfully', but the system panic'd when booting, complaining that
> >>> VolGroup00 doesn't exist. What's the secret?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I installed many flavors of Linux in VM's in the past, but it was
> always
> >>> from scratch - either from DVD/CD, the network, or an iso image.  Never
> >>> done
> >>> the appliance thingy.  Any idea anybody?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> -- Asher
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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