I downloaded the free VMware Player and installed it on my work laptop this weekend. It lets you run a pre-made virtual machine. I took the browser appliance VM which is based on Ubuntu Hoary and upgraded it with apt-get to Breezy, installing some new packages to the image:
VMWare Player running Breezy Badger
Some tips if you want to try this:
- The vmware user’s password is “vmware” (lucky guess)
- The image contains a few text editors: nano, perl, sed… (nano is probably easiest)
- A Breezy /etc/apt/sources.list might look something like this
- You might need to recreate your ethernet device after the upgrade. Check out the /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl tool.
October 24th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
I did an apt-get update / apt-get upgrade after changing my sources.list . However after I rebooted, X woudn’t start. I tried running vmware-config-tools.pl, but that didn’t fix it.
Any ideas what went wrong? Should I have done apt-get dist-upgrade instead?
October 24th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Yeah, you probably should do a dist-upgrade.
October 27th, 2005 at 7:15 am
I wrote a short step by step guide in case anyone wants to try to install Windows XP Pro, or any other os. You can create your own virtual machines, see: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/200.....ws-xp.html