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LCG 2.7 UI VMware Image

The LCG 2.7 software is also available as a VMware image. This VMware image can be used on any PC on which the free VMware Player is installed (or any of the non-free VMware products).
Versions for both Linux and Microsoft Windows of the VMware Player are available.

The LCG 2.7 UI VMware Images were created using VMware Workstation 5.5 with this configuration:
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 16 GB SCSI disk (max size, currently used: 2.2 GB)
  • CD-ROM and floppy support
  • Mouse support
  • No sound or USB support
The resulting virtual machine was then preloaded with
  • CentOS 3.7 (incl updates)
  • Gnome as the graphical user interface
  • LCG 2.7.0-5 software, configured as a UI
  • Sun Java Runtime environment 1.4.2_11 (not the j2sdk itself)
The UI was configured to point to the NIKHEF production grid (NIKHEF-ELPROD) with resource broker bosheks.nikhef.nl.

Installation Instructions

LCG 2.7 UI VMware Image Installation Instructions

NOTE: The VMware image files require at least 2.5 GB of free disk space!

After installing the VMware Player, unzip the image file lcg27ui.zip into an empty directory. You should end up with the following files: 

    lcg27ui-s001.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s002.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s003.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s004.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s005.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s006.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s007.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s008.vmdk
    lcg27ui-s009.vmdk
    lcg27ui.nvram
    lcg27ui.vmdk
    lcg27ui.vmem
    lcg27ui.vmsd
    lcg27ui.vmss
    lcg27ui.vmx

Using the LCG 2.7 UI VMware Image

After installing the image files, start up VMware Player and select the .vmx file to use:
load_file

Alternatively, you can also launch the image directly by double-clicking on the lcg27ui.vmx file itself.


The CentOS boot-up screen appears:
grub_start

If it does not, then pray that there is help for you in the VMware Image FAQ.

Linux will boot after approximately 10 seconds and will bring up the graphical login screen. The login screen will automatically log in as the user vmuser after 30 seconds, after which you are ready to use the LCG 2.7 UI VMware Image.
Congratulations!

The passwords for both vmuser and root are:

user_names

Stopping the VMware Player

The VMware Player can be stopped like any other Microsoft Windows program. When the player is shut down, the VMware session is put on standby, pretty much like a laptop. The next time you launch the VMware session, it automatically restores the previous state.

VMware Player Installation Instructions (Linux)

It is assumed that a Linux-capable person is installing VMware, hence these instructions are relatively short:

Download the VMware Player RPM and install it (requires root access): 

  rpm -i VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm
That's all folks!

Trademark

VMware, the VMware "boxes" logo, GSX Server, ESX Server, Virtual SMP, VMotion and VMware ACE are trademarks (the "Marks") of VMware, Inc.

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