Returning to VMWare

[Chris Child]

Hi,

I've downloaded the Vagrant version of Data Science Toolkit and got it working under my own environment. It works awesome thanks for putting this together.

I have been asked to try and return it to a VMWare installation though. Is this possible?

Thanks

Chris

[Pete Warden]

I actually had another request for the same thing earlier this week. The only way I'm certain will work is running through the (manual) script that covers my setup steps on a fresh VMware box:

https://github.com/petewarden/dstk/blob/master/docs/vagrantsetup.txt

That takes a long time to run through, obviously! It does seem like it might be possible to convert between VM formats automatically though. Here's one suggestion, I haven't tried it yet but it seems plausible:

http://nerdwa.com/index.php/2011/11/from-virtualbox-to-vmware-fusion-osx/

If anyone gets a chance to try this before I do, I'd love to hear how it goes. I'm hoping this gets easier now that I've hitched my wagon to Vagrant, since they've just launched VMware support.

cheers,

           Pete

Chris

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[Chris Child]

Great. I'll give both a try and see what happens. If I do get something working I'll let you know.

Thanks for the quick response.

Chris

[Chris Child]

Hi again,

Just a quick update. It does not appear that you can take the VirtualBox VM and convert it to a VMware installation. I'm not 100% sure what is going on but if you look at the picture I've attached there seems to be some VirtualBox specific processes in the startup script for the VM that fail and in turn I think prevent the server from properly starting but as I said I'm not 100% sure. I'm going to plug away at the conversion since I'd still much rather do that than have to rebuild everthing. 

Chris

[Pete Warden]

Thanks for the update Chris! I wonder if the folks over on the Vagrant list would have any ideas on this too? https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/vagrant-up

cheers,

           Pete

[Chris Child]

Thanks I posted my question over there as well!

Chris

[Chris Child]

Just found out that we can actually uninstall VirtualBox Guest Additions but to do so we need to be able to log into the VM. I was told you used to provide login info but the username/password for this VM is not the same. Is this something we could get or have you left it absent for a reason?

Chris

[Pete Warden]

The login should be user 'vagrant' and password 'vagrant'. This has come up several times now, so I've just added it to the documentation! http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#setup

cheers,

           Pete

[Chris Child]

Hi Pete,

Just wanted to give you an answer to whether or not this is possible. It is and it is very easy. All that needs to be done is to use Virtual Box to export the VM to .ova format and just import it into VMware. That's it! It does assign it's own IP though so users will have to login into the VM and find out what it is. 

Chris

[Pete Warden]

Great to know, thanks Chris, I'll add this to the docs too!