(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Opps, I forgot something.

I understand that I cannot access my real harddrives from the VMWare machine. This situation is no big deal. I'm just testing some distributions of Linux.

The internet access works in Puppy.

I love puppy so much that I might burn a Live CD or install Puppy with Grub when I have more time.

But for now, I can play around with AbiWord and other nice office programs with Puppy and VMware player.

Bye!

It works.

Thanks.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

Two attempts to download the .zip file from Mark's site failed about three quarters of the way through. But the .rar file downloaded and installed okay.

Puppy 1.0.7 runs really well under vmware.

BlackAdder wrote:Two attempts to download the .zip file from Mark's site failed about three quarters of the way through. But the .rar file downloaded and installed okay.

Puppy 1.0.7 runs really well under vmware.

I just downloaded the .ZIP file and it downloaded and unzipped and ran just fine. So I am not sure where the problem is coming from.

Just a little thought, to access your hard drives whilst running puppy vm, you must remember to mount them first. Your c: drive wikll most likely be called swap.

The Puppy 107-vmware moved to a new server:
http://htb65.de/puppylinux/puppy-releases/1.0.7/

There also is a new vmwareplayer for Puppy 2.02, for details read this thread:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10420

Mark

I came across safe_home_banking.vmx on the VMplayer site. Simple editing is all it takes to make it work flawlessly with the Puppy iso file to your liking. In fact it works with all kinds of iso files.

This way I can try an iso in virtual machine. If I like it I can install it on my machine. In any case it is a major space saver.

I have created a 4 gb virtual drive with a 2.5 gb bootable dos 7.1 partition, 500 mb Linux swap & a 1 gb hda 6 for use in vmware player. So far it has used up only 18 mb of space. What I have to experiment with is to boot & install Linux to this virtual drive.

pmshah wrote:I came across safe_home_banking.vmx on the VMplayer site. Simple editing is all it takes to make it work flawlessly with the Puppy iso file to your liking. In fact it works with all kinds of iso files.

This way I can try an iso in virtual machine. If I like it I can install it on my machine. In any case it is a major space saver.

This sounds very interesting and I would like to try it.

Could you give more info on where to get 'safe_home_banking.vmx' and how to set it up to run any Puppy iso?

What editing is needed?

Paul

You can download the player from the following site...

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Install this file.

he appliance is actually a very simple text file. Copy paste the following test in a txt file. Rename it to "puppy.vmx" Leave out the Top & bottom dashed lines.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
config.version = "7"
virtualHW.version = "3"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "128"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
ide0:0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Other.vmdk"
ide0:0.deviceType = "ata-hardDisk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "puppy.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
usb.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
displayName = "Puppy Linux"
guestOS = "other"

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
----------------------------------------------------------------

Place your "puppy. iso" file in the same folder as this puppy.vmx file. Start your vmplayer & point to this puppy.vmx file. You have a full functional virtual machine. Select video resolution in Puppy to one level below your host's native resolution otherwise you will fill up the screen entirely.

You can simply change the 2 obvious puppy references in this file & use it with absolutely any iso you have. You can change memory allotment to suit your hardware. Do not use an iso that installs an os since this file does not furnish a pre configured virtual hard disk. For foing that some changes as well as an additional file of about 1mb size are required.

Hope this helps.

MU wrote:The Puppy 107-vmware moved to a new server:
http://htb65.de/puppylinux/puppy-releases/1.0.7/

There also is a new vmwareplayer for Puppy 2.02, for details read this thread:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10420

Mark

Is it possible to make The Puppy 211-213-vmware? It would be incredible!

while struggling with some "unknowns" in the control file of Torsmo which isn't maintained since 2004 I stumbled across a fully maintained successor: Conky (conky.sourceforge.net). It's a bit "fatter" then Torsmo with more capabilities but to me the most important aspect is that it's maintained. Compiled and installed without problems so far.

Juergen

Can any one point to a copy of VM puppy linux

as all the links seem to be broken

thanks DC

DC wrote:Can any one point to a copy of VM puppy linux

as all the links seem to be broken

thanks DC

See post from MU above!

Hi don't worry about the previous request for a link
I followed the instructions for the VMX file
downloaded Murga's 50M Mean Puppy
and it works fine

had to rename iso to puppy.iso Changing the name in the script to match Murga's 50M Mean Puppy file name did not work.

DC

Hi, read all of your posts, what does this vm do? what is it used for? thanks

my limited knowledge reply

VM - Virtual machine i.e. a virtual PC

in my case allows you to run puppy in a VM running in windows XP
I've had puppy 2.13 running ok.
I just used it for playing with while I have to be in windows (work programmes ).
I boot back to harddrive puppy as soon as I don't need windows!

DC

Ok, I think I understand, but if your in xp and have puppy running, does that not still allow others to peer into the back doors of xp? its got holes ya know.

as for XP having holes - speak to bill
For XP I've have a router with hardware firewall, Zonealarm software firewall - to protect me from the kids downloads, AVG anti-virus.

and Puppy don't need any of the above.

And I don't know if XP problems could effect a VM running puppy.
but its a iso anyway so no worries

DC

Hi,

I have followed install procedure and got pizzapup running fine in vmware with speed ! Though i have two problems i hope someone may help to solve:
1. i cannot see/mount hard drives (fat or ntfs) nor cdrom drive
2. network is not working because it gives an error messages stating it is yet in use...

Can someone help ?

Best regards

All the discussion so far seems to be about using VMware to allow Puppy to run under windoze.

However, I would like to run windoze under linux (with a strong preference for puppy).

VMware will run under Linux, but has someone tried this under Puppy, or even created a dotpup for it?

MM