Linux vm

When you are done, key things to remember:

• your host will be "lhost" to all the vms
• you will have mounted your /User directory from mac on all the VMs as /User,
• VMs will be called lsesa0, lsesa1, lsesa2...

Directions for getting a new machine:

• Go to VMware.com, download fusion vmware fusion, install, trial

• go to http://www.ubuntu.com/ latest amd64 server, (11.10)

• created new vm, point fusion to the ISO you just downloaded

  • to minimize memory, switch to 512MB of RAM, rest default (NAT, 20Gig disk)

• copy the VM using the file system

• on client, create user

  • user: sesa
  • password: sesa0000sesa

• on client, (note, for everything do as sudo): apt-get install openssh-server build-essential nfs-client

  • (I also installed emacs)

• set up fixed IP addresses everywhere:

  • For Fusion version 4, go to: /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/
  • modify vmnet8 which is the local natted network, in /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/dhcpd.conf
  • Note, in everything below, replace 172.16.XX with your isolated subnet

  Add the following:

  host lsesa0 { hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX; fixed-address 172.16.XX.10; }

• Where you can get the correct mac address for your client by doing an ifconfig on it or looking at the vmx file.

• if you quit and restat fusion, it will restart the dhcp service.

• add new client to your .ssh/config file,

  e.g.;

  Host lsesa0
  Hostname 172.16.XX.10 User sesa

• on client modify /etc/hosts, call host "lhost", and names for client, e.g., lsesa0, lsesa1...

  Add:

  172.16.XX.1 lhost lhost.local 172.16.XX.10 lsesa0 lsesa0.local 172.16.XX.11 lsesa1 lsesa1.local`

• on client modify /etc/fstab to mount Users from host file system as /mnt/hostfs

  like so:

  lhost:/Users /mnt/hostfs nfs rw

• on server export file system, in /etc/exports, the network mask sys

  like so:

  /Users -mapall=XXXUSERXXX -alldirs -network 172.16.XX -mask 255.255.255.0

where above will map all users to be the local user (XXX...)

• create a symbolic ink from /Users to /mnt/hostfs, so that the address is the same

on your box, set up your emacs to remotely compile to linux, e.g.

(setq remote-compile-user "sesa")
(setq remote-compile-host "lsesa0")
(setq remote-shell-program "/opt/local/bin/ssh")

to remote compile, you will need to cd to the right directory in the target side, e.g.,

^X remote-compile, then type in

cd /Users/okrieg/SESA/EBBlib/libs/ebb/ ; SESA_LRT=ulnx SESA_ARCH=amd64 make -f ebbtest.mk