Does the "Learning VM" image actually work?

[Brad Knowles]

Folks,

I tried downloading the Learning VM image for VMware, and while there does seem to be a .vmdk file inside the zip archive, along with various other parts I would expect to find, so far as I can tell this is not something that I can successfully import into VMware Fusion 7.

Has this image been tested and confirmed to work with VMware Fusion 7?

Thanks!

[Benito Mourelo]

On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 11:42:40 PM UTC+1, Brad Knowles wrote:

Folks,

I tried downloading the Learning VM image for VMware, and while there does seem to be a .vmdk file inside the zip archive, along with various other parts I would expect to find, so far as I can tell this is not something that I can successfully import into VMware Fusion 7.

Unzip it and rename the resulted directory to attach  the ".vmwarevm" extension and then open it.
 

Has this image been tested and confirmed to work with VMware Fusion 7?

It works for me on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Good luck.

 

[Brad Knowles]

On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Benito Mourelo <bmou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unzip it and rename the resulted directory to attach the ".vmwarevm" extension and then open it.

Ahh. That was the thing I was missing from the instructions.

BTW, I discovered that you probably want to pull the PDF file out of the extracted archive directory before you rename it, otherwise it will be a bit painful to refer back to the PDF if/when you want. ;)

> It works for me on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Working through it now. Thanks again!

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[Hunter Haugen]

A tip on OS X about getting "inside" folder-app-things (like .app, .vmwarevm, etc).

You can right click ("two finger" click) on the object, and select "Show package contents" to get into it with Finder. Then you'll be able to see the PDF.

Or you can `cd` in a terminal into it, and `open .` to open it in finder.

-Hunter

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[Brad Knowles]

On Feb 10, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Hunter Haugen <hun...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

> A tip on OS X about getting "inside" folder-app-things (like .app, .vmwarevm, etc).
>
> You can right click ("two finger" click) on the object, and select "Show package contents" to get into it with Finder. Then you'll be able to see the PDF.

For those who haven’t been MacFanatics since 1983, and OS X users since Rhapsody, this is a good reminder. :-)

> Or you can `cd` in a terminal into it, and `open .` to open it in finder.

For those who haven’t been using Unix since 1984, this is another good reminder. :-)


All the reminders notwithstanding, those are still work arounds that you can easily avoid if you just move the file before you rename the directory.

[Benito Mourelo]

For Unix users :

unzip -j learn_puppet_centos-6.5-pe-3.7.1-ptb-vmware.zip -d learn_puppet_centos-6.5.vmwarevm -x learning-vmware/Quest_Guide.pdf

Bye.