Monday, January 11, 2016

VMware-tools

I am trying to get Debian Wheezy (the latest Linux CNC version) running under VMWare Player 12.  Shared folders require vmware-tools, which will not install.  Not using Synaptics Package Manager, or apt-get, or the instructions that tell how to gunzip it and install.

I suspect this is the problem:
This issue occurs if the GCC and PAE kernels are not up to date in the Linux VM and the hgfs folder is not created in the /mnt folder.
Debian Wheezy for LinuxCNC has a special PAE kernel for real realtime performance.  But I will create /mnt/hgfs as an experiment. That didn't do it.  I can either share files with Windows or run LinuxCNC.  Instead I am installing the latest Debian release, which I will use for copying files to the LinuxCNC release.

4 comments:

  1. Why not try using an NFS share and mounting it in Windows? I think you need services for unix installed

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754350.aspx

    There are third party windows applications that allow Windows to mount NFS shares or serve as an NFS server as well for later versions of Windows.

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  2. Is there some reason you need your linuxcnc to run as a VM? I like VMs for some tasks, but cases like this are advertisements for dual boot systems at the least, or dedicated machines at the most. Running a real time ap in a VM seems like playing with fire at the very least.

    The news on machinekit running on a Raspberry Pi is pretty interesting to me. Seems like if you could get that going stably it would be a huge winner. Right now it's a custom kernel, but it looks like they're heading to using RT_PREEMPT in the future (ARM support for RT_PREEMPT is bad right now) to get rid of a bunch of the custom kernel stuff. At that price for a dedicated machine you can't go wrong if it works.

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  3. PhaseMargin: It isn't to run LinuxCNC in a VM, but to do development inside where it's warm, and transfer file back and forth to the laptop in garage.

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  4. TM Lutas: Unfortunately NFS Client services is not in Windows 7 Professional. Not just turned off, but not available.

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