[RndTbl] VMware Appliance Distro

Montana Quiring montanaq at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 09:35:43 CDT 2008


No, I just want to run a single VM on bootup

The idea is that I would like my staff to have their workstation on a
USB drive and they could plug into any machine turn it on and
automagically boot into their VM. I guess the PC would become a thin
client of sorts.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Brian Doob <bdoob at acm.org> wrote:
> You should run VMWare Player on top of a small customizable distro.  You
> need X, but you might not need a window manager at all.  If you do need a
> Window manager (to move and resize the VMWare window), use the smallest one
> available.  Do you want to run multiple VMs at the same time?  Do you want
> to create VMs on this system?  Which VMWare features do you need?
>
>                         -Brian
>
>
>
>  On 2008-April-10, at 10:42 AM, tim at fractaldragon.net wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:09:50AM -0500, Montana Quiring wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I would like to know if there is a super thin Linux distro that's
> > > single purpose is to fire up a VMware image when the computer boots
> > > up.
> > >
> > > I would like to try doing something similar to the Cirtix Xen Desktop
> > > stuff that they showed off at Epic, but I would like the users Virtual
> > > Image to be on a USB flash or hard drive and the PC to have a very
> > > simple linux install that just loads the VMWare image when the machine
> > > is started up.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of going the "Linux From Scratch" route if there isn't
> > > anything already out there.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi Montana,
> >
> > What about some of the CD or USB-based distros, such as Damn Small Linux
> > or Puppy Linux? Either should be easily customizable.
> >
> > Puppy will load entirely into a ramdisk, dropping you directly into a
> > lightweight desktop. It also can be set to save changed or new files to
> > another session on a CD, or onto DVD; when rebooting, all the new bits
> > are loaded on startup. I've used this for a simple firewall setup where
> > I didn't want to write to the hard drive at all.
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >  Tim
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