[RndTbl] VMware Appliance Distro

[Montana Quiring]

great ideas. thanks guys!
-Montana

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Brian Doob <bdoob at acm.org> wrote:
> 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:
>
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> > 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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