by Joey Novak | Dec 21, 2012 | Dev Posts
We use BitNami for our production servers, and it’s nice to be able to test the same image locally before we push to our production server. This allows us to work out those rare bugs where code behaves differently because of a library or OS difference. To get a BitNami VMware image to be useable you need to install VMware tools. First thing you need to do is download the BitNami VMware image you want, as well as either VMware Player or VMware Workstation. Once you have the VM running, go to the player menu and select Manage, and then “Install VMware Tools”. Next, you need to mount it. Run the following: sudo mkdir /media/cdrom sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom Now copy the tgz file in the cdrom path to your user directory, and untar it: cd ~; sudo cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools* .; tar -zxvf VMwareTools* Now, we need to install the kernel header files so that VMware tools can be compiled (the BitNami VM image doesn’t come with them included). First we need to update the apt-get indexes, so do this: sudo apt-get update Next we need to install the kernel headers: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) Now you can run the VMware tools installer: cd ~ && sudo vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-installer.pl Hit enter to go with the default option whenever asked a question by the installer. That should do it, although I do one extra step. As much as I dislike Linux GUI’s, it’s nice to have a browser on the dev server, the reason being we use *.nlocal.info for all our local development sites, then we setup Apache mod_vhost_alias on our...
