Using VMware Workstation on GRML Linux

I was wondering, how difficult it is to install the Gnome environment inside the GRML environment when installed onto a hard-disk drive? Probably an aptitude-install Gnome does it. However, Hear is what I was wanting to know. I have purchased the VMWare Workstation package, and have a registered serial number for it. It's a standard tar formatted file, with a Tar.GZ extention added onto the end of it. Extracting it isn't my problem. The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware services on boot of GRML itself? I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation. Could anyone contact me with instructions on this process? Thanks. Regards, --Keith

On 3/2/09 12:27 AM Keith Hinton wrote:
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware services on boot of GRML itself?
You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl, which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/, /etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).
So basically I would say the procedure is the same as with any other linux distribution.
I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation.
Gnome should have any kind of autostart.
Regards, OJ

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:31:34 +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote:
The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware services on boot of GRML itself?
You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl, which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/, /etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...).
AFAIK, grml uses file-rc instead of sys-rc, so better use update-rc.d to make sure that it can launch at boot.
check the steps at http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/virtual/vmware/vm03-VmwareInstallati...
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