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VMware Workstation 7 and Gentoo

Dec 3

Posted by nick in Linux

UPDATE – Please note, the guys who maintain Pentoo have an ebuild available in their overlay – https://www.pentoo.ch/svn/portage/trunk/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/

As of writing this there isn’t an ebuild out for Workstation 7.  There is also a compile issue with Workstation 6.x and 7′s vmnet module using a 2.6.32 kernel.  I upgraded to 7 yesterday and unfortunately dropped VirtualBox.  Don’t get me wrong, I love VBox and have never had any problems with it performance-wise or feature-wise but I use VMware Workstation or Fusion on all my other systems and at work.  I continually found the need to transport vms around and things just didn’t work right when running and saving VMware vms in VBox and then running it back in VMware.

To install Workstation 7 I installed the following apps

dev-cpp/cairomm
dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm
dev-cpp/libsexymm
sys-apps/pciutils
sys-fs/fuse
sys-libs/glibc
x11-libs/libview
x11-libs/libgksu
x11-libs/libXcursor
x11-libs/libXft
x11-libs/libXi
x11-libs/libXinerama
x11-libs/libXrandr
dev-util/eclipse-sdk
gnome-base/gnome-desktop
gnome-base/gvfs
emerge -avt gvfs gnome-desktop eclipse-sdk libXrandr libXinerama libXi libXft libXcursor libgksu libview glibc fuse  pciutils libsexymm libgnomecanvasmm cairomm

If you want to extract the bundle the following command will do it

./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.0.0-203739.x86_64.bundle -x /tmp/vmware-installer

The following creates the needed dir’s for vmware

cd /etc
ln -s init.d rc0.d
ln -s init.d rc1.d
ln -s init.d rc2.d
ln -s init.d rc3.d
ln -s init.d rc4.d
ln -s init.d rc5.d
ln -s init.d rc6.d
ln -s init.d rcS.d

Copy the vmware bundle file to /usr/src.  For some reason telling it to install somewhere else seemed to fail for me.

./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.0.0-203739.x86_64.bundle --console --custom -I

Enter the defaults for pretty much everything except tell it the init scripts are located in /etc/init.d and then everything load.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/239221 – has information on patching vmware for the 2.6.32 kernel.  Haven’t tried it yet but seems simple enough.

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Packet Sniff and Craft

Sep 15

Posted by nick in Linux, Security

Last weekend at one of our local Linux LUGs (http://rmlug.org) I was able to do a brief talk on some packet sniffing and packet crafting tools. I had some time on my hands the weekend prior so I wrote down a bunch of commands I find useful. Hopefully someone else can find my cheat sheet handy too.
http://theinterw3bs.com/docs/PacketSniffCraft-CheatSheet.pdf
Let me know if you find it useful or have any suggestions/corrections.

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Macbook Pentoo update

Sep 12

Posted by nick in Linux, Mac

I redid my Pentoo install and got rid of the two partitions and made just one. The instructions are pretty much the same but here they are updated slightly

  • Boot with Leopard DVD
  • Go into Disk Utility and create a 2 partition scheme. For my 160GB I chose 136GB for OS X and 14 for Pentoo. Make the OS X HFS + Journaled and the 14 GB FAT32.
  • I then exited Disk Utility and opened a terminal and typed diskutil list. In the output you should see /dev/sda1 as an EFI partition, /dev/sda2 as your HFS partition and /dev/sda3 as your FAT32 partition. The GPT EFI style systems can only support 4 primary partition and I don’t believe support extended partitions, so you are technically limited to 3 partitions
  • Then I rebooted, booting off the Snow Leopard DVD and installed Snow Leopard to the HFS partition
  • After Snow Leopard installed I downloaded and installed rEFIt. I then rebooted so I could verify that rEFIt was installed correctly
  • I then booted off the Pentoo livecd and logged into X.
  • Inside Pentoo I loaded GParted and removed the FAT32 Partition and created a ext4 (dev/sda3) partition.
  • I then rebooted and when at the rEFIt boot screen I dropped into the rEFIt command terminal and typed gptsync to resync the discs after using GParted
  • Then I rebooted again back into the Pentoo livecd.
  • Once booted for the second time into the Pentoo cd, I followed the simple installation instructions off the Pentoo site but basically I did the following
    mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
    cp -Rf /mnt/livecd/* to /mnt/gentoo/
    rm -Rf /mnt/gentoo/etc; rm -Rf /mnt/gentoo/root
    cp -Rf /etc /mnt/gentoo/etc
    cp -Rf /root /mnt/gentoo/root
    cp -Rf /usr/portage /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage
    mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
    mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
    chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash; env-update; source /etc/profile
    vi /etc/fstab
    All I set in there was /dev/sda3 for /boot and for /

    I found Lilo works best on my Macbook so I uninstalled Grub and installed Lilo

    emerge --sync; emerge -C grub; emerge -avt lilo

    I then edited a handful of configs in /etc/conf.d/
    Removed autoconfig from default runlevel

    rc-update del autoconfig default

    Add keymaps to default

    rc-update add keymaps default
    mv /etc/inittab.old /etc/inittab
    mv /etc/init.d/halt.sh.orig /etc/init.d/halt.sh
    passwd root

    I then edited my lilo.conf

    cat /etc/lilo.conf
    # Global LILO settings
    boot=/dev/sda3                            
    timeout=5              
    default=Linux  
    image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-pentoo-r6
    label= Linux       
    root=/dev/sda3

    I then set eth0 to start on boot and configured my wireless and created an ath0 iface, ran lilo, set a password and unmounted.

    ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.ath0
    /sbin/lilo
    exit; cd; umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo; init 6

    For my xorg.conf I set the following

    InputDevice "Synaptics"  "AlwaysCore"
    ...
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier      "Synaptics"
            Driver  "synaptics"
            #Option "Protocol" "event"
            Option  "Protocol" "auto-dev"
            #Option "Device" ""
            Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
            Option  "LeftEdge" "1900"
            Option  "RightEdge" "5400"
            Option  "TopEdge" "1900"
            Option  "BottomEdge" "4000"
            Option  "FingerLow" "25"
            Option  "FingerHigh" "30"
            Option  "MaxTapTime" "180"
            Option  "MaxTapMove" "220"
            Option  "VertScrollDelta" "100"
            Option  "MinSpeed" "0.3"
            Option  "MaxSpeed" "0.50"
            Option  "AccelFactor" "0.080"
            Option  "SHMConfig" "on"
            Option  "TapButton1" "1"
            Option  "TapButton2" "3"
            Option  "TapButton3" "2"
            Option  "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "true"
            Option  "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "true"
    EndSection

    I also installed xfce’s terminal cause URxvt is a pain in the ass with copy and paste and when it comes to increasing fonts and such.

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