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Ärende: Installing OpenBSD on VMware Server
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From: /m <mike@barkto.com>


http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/08/24/1828235.shtml?tid=8


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Many people collect things as a hobby. I collect computers. Over the years, as
my collection grew, my living room began to look like a data center. As soon as
VMware Server became freely (as in beer) available I knew I had to migrate my
servers and development boxes to virtual machines (VM). The problem is that
most of my servers run OpenBSD, which is not officially supported by VMware.
Out of the box, VMware can't properly shut down OpenBSD VMs; it just powers VMs
off, causing data corruption. With a little bit of hacking, I managed to
eliminate this issue. Here's how you can install OpenBSD as a guest OS under
VMware Server, and possibly other VMware products.


VMware Server supports FreeBSD as a guest OS and offers vmware-tools built for
it. You can fool VMware Server into thinking that an OpenBSD VM is FreeBSD, and
use OpenBSD's FreeBSD emulation to run vmware-tools.

Create a new VM and select Other/FreeBSD as the guest operating system.
Configure the rest to your liking. Power on the VM you've just created and
install OpenBSD as usual; if you've never installed OpenBSD before have a look
at the Installation Guide. After the installation finishes, reboot into OpenBSD
and enable FreeBSD emulation by issuing sysctl -w kern.emul.freebsd=1. Make
this setting permanent by uncommenting the appropriate line in
/etc/sysctl.conf.

Select Install VMware Tools... on the VM menu; this creates a virtual CD-ROM
image which is accessible from the VM and includes a tarball with vmware-tools
for FreeBSD. From that tarball we need to install the vmware-guestd daemon,
which triggers events sent for the host computer and runs commands accordingly
-- such as halt and reboot -- on the guest OS. So, run the following commands
to mount that image and install the daemon and its configuration:

mount /dev/cd0c /mnt
tar -zxvpf /mnt/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz -C /tmp mkdir -p /emul/freebsd/sbin
install -m 555 -o root -g wheel
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/sbin32/vmware-guestd /emul/freebsd/sbin
cp -r /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/etc /etc/vmware-tools rm -rf
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
umount /mnt

Start the daemon with

/emul/freebsd/sbin/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
--halt-command "/sbin/shutdown -p -h now".

To have it started on boot add the following lines to your /etc/rc.local file
just before the echo '.' line:

if [ -x /emul/freebsd/sbin/vmware-guestd ]; then
        echo -n ' vmware-tools'
        /emul/freebsd/sbin/vmware-guestd --background
/var/run/vmware-guestd.pid \
                --halt-command "/sbin/shutdown -p -h now"
fi


Now you can shut down the VM and check its status from the VMware Web-based
management interface or console and have it halt and power off properly.
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 /m

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