[RndTbl] VMware Appliance Distro

[Brian Doob]

You can probably start VMWare Player (in full screen mode) out of  
xinit, and not use a window manager at all.

On 2008-April-11, at 9:35 AM, Montana Quiring wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
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