Installing XubunTOS on VMWare  for Fedora 6 and 7

Hui Kang

This document describes the procedure of installing XubunTOS using VMWare for Fedora  6 and 7.
A similar document can be found here by Kevin Klues.
    Now you have installed Linux distribution of FC6 or FC7 on your machine and you want to develope applications using TinyOS. To avoid tedious and error-prone steps of downloaing and installing tools manually, the easiest way to get TinyOS is to use the distribution CD. At the same time, however, you may also want to keep the Fedora on the machine. Then you may need to refer to this document.
   
Download and install VMWare server
First you should download VMware in this website and get a license number from here.   
In the download page, please chose the RPM version for Linux.
Suppose you download to the directory of /home/myvmware/. Run the command
        > rpm -Uvh vmware***.rpm
Done. Nothing happens! Try
        > vmware
You will get some error message that your VMware is not configured correctly. You should use
        > vmware.pl
Most likely you will get the error message as follows:
        > make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
        make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only'
        Unable to build the vmmon module.
        Execution aborted.
You need the patch for VMware. We can solve it by
        > wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update113.tar.gz
        >  tar xvfz vmware-any-any-update113.tar.gz
        > cd vmware-any-any-update113
        > ./runme.pl
Accept the default value duing the installation. At the end, it will ask you to
enter the license number.  If everything goes well, now you can run vmware by
        > vmware

Download XubunTOS
You need the iso image of XubunTOS from. Here is the website.  
Save it somewhere, say, /home/mytos/

Create a Virtual Machine
In the VMware server GUI, simply create a Ubunto VM and accept all the default settings.
Then click editor the VM, choose "from ISO image". Power on the VM, and now you start install XubunTOS like on a natice machine. Finally, do not forget to add the USB controller and serial port.




If you have any question, please contact me (hkang at cs.sunysb.edu).