EWD VA on Linux host - a tip

#1 01-11-2007, 07:14 AM

I just configured the M/Gateway EWD Virtual Appliance to run on VMware
Server on Linux. One gotcha that had me scratching my head for a while
was that the Ubuntu.vmx file needs execute permission, otherwise the
VMware Server Console just shows a black screen after you boot the
machine.

In my case, VMware Server runs as a user called vmware. When I unzipped
the EWD VA the permissions on Ubuntu.vmx were -rw-rw-r-- and the
owner/group were vmware/vmware.

I changed the permissions to -rwxr-xr-- and the problem was solved.

I hope this information helps someone someday.

John Murray
George James Software
www.georgejames.com

#2 01-11-2007, 09:44 AM

John....for those of us that are linux stupid...can you explain how you did
that?

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"John Murray" <johnm@georgejames.com> wrote in message
news:4A1233377E85D3118218005004822EC058FA98@YAK...
>I just configured the M/Gateway EWD Virtual Appliance to run on VMware
> Server on Linux. One gotcha that had me scratching my head for a while
> was that the Ubuntu.vmx file needs execute permission, otherwise the
> VMware Server Console just shows a black screen after you boot the
> machine.
>
> In my case, VMware Server runs as a user called vmware. When I unzipped
> the EWD VA the permissions on Ubuntu.vmx were -rw-rw-r-- and the
> owner/group were vmware/vmware.
>
> I changed the permissions to -rwxr-xr-- and the problem was solved.
>
> I hope this information helps someone someday.
>
> John Murray
> George James Software
> www.georgejames.com
>

#3 01-11-2007, 05:37 PM

> > the permissions on Ubuntu.vmx were -rw-rw-r-- and
> > the owner/group were vmware/vmware.
> >
> > I changed the permissions to -rwxr-xr-- and the problem was solved.
> John....for those of us that are linux stupid...can you
> explain how you did
> that?

chmod 754 Ubuntu.vmx

To work out the magic number, know that "r" is worth 4, "w" is 2 and "x"
is 1, and the sequence of the flagsets is "owner", "group", "world".

So, the original permissions equated to 664 and the new ones 754.

For more info (and other ways of doing the same thing):

man chmod

HTH

John

#4 01-11-2007, 06:38 PM

Interestingly this isnt a problem if you're using VMWare Player on
Linux (at least on my RedHat 8 system) - I just unzipped the files and
fired it up and away it went!

Looks like VMWare Server on Linux is different

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:14:42 -0000, John Murray
<johnm@georgejames.com> wrote:

>I just configured the M/Gateway EWD Virtual Appliance to run on VMware
>Server on Linux. One gotcha that had me scratching my head for a while
>was that the Ubuntu.vmx file needs execute permission, otherwise the
>VMware Server Console just shows a black screen after you boot the
>machine.
>
>In my case, VMware Server runs as a user called vmware. When I unzipped
>the EWD VA the permissions on Ubuntu.vmx were -rw-rw-r-- and the
>owner/group were vmware/vmware.
>
>I changed the permissions to -rwxr-xr-- and the problem was solved.
>
>I hope this information helps someone someday.
>
>John Murray
>George James Software
>www.georgejames.com

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