Virtual Machine - notes on creating the VM Ware appliance

This is a very rough document at the moment!

Plus, not all of these packages are in the vm-20110908 virtual machine.

• [X] qgis-grass-plugin
• [X] mapserver
• [X] mapnik
• [X] package mbsystem as a debian .deb
• [X] Notes from mbsystem mailing list / poseidonlinux on how to build a really small vm

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience
• http://www.poseidonlinux.org/

sudo apt-get install keepassx

sudo apt-get install octave3.2  # Similar syntax to matlab
sudo apt-get r-base r-cran-maptools # GNU R statistical computation and graphics system
sudo apt-get install libkml0
sudo apt-get install gnudatalanguage # aka gdl.  Compatible with Interactive Data Lanuage (IDL)

sudo apt-get install emacs23
sudo apt-get install org-mode
sudo apt-get install bbdb yasnippet pymacs css-mode debian-el dictionary-el easypg edb emacs-jabber erc git-el global gnuplot-mode
sudo apt-get install id-utils liece magit mell python-mode python-ropemacs riece slime wget-el yaml-mode

sudo apt-get install source-highlight tree

sudo apt-get install qgis
sudo apt-get install gdal-bin
sudo apt-get python-gdal
sudo apt-get install grass
sudo apt-get install gpsbabel gpsd gpsd-clients
sudo apt-get install gmt gmt-coast-low 
sudo apt-get install worldwind

sudo apt-get install python-shapely
sudo apt-get install python-pyproj
sudo apt-get install python-kml
sudo apt-get install ipython
sudo apt-get install python-scitools python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-data
sudo apt-get install diveintopython python-beautifulsoup python-daemon python-dateutil python-debian python-dev python-examples
sudo apt-get install python-genshi python-geoip python-imaging python-jabber python-jinja2
sudo apt-get install python-ldap python-levenshtein python-lockfile python-lxml python-magic
sudo apt-get install python-mako python-markupsafe python-mysqldb python-nose
sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-notify python-oauth python-ogg python-openid python-openssl python-paramiko python-parsedatetime
sudo apt-get install python-paste python-pastedeploy python-pastescript python-pexpect python-pkg-resources python-protobuf python-psycopg2 python-pyasn1 python-pycurl python-pygments python-pygresql
sudo apt-get install python-pylibacl python-pyrex  # err... which one was py26?
sudo apt-get install python-rdflib python-reportlab python-rrdtool python-rsvg python-serial python-setuptools 
sudo apt-get install python-smbc python-speechd python-sphinx python-svn python-twisted
sudo apt-get install python-vobject python-yaml
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
sudo apt-get install kodos # regular expression builder / tester

• Download the deb here http://www.google.com/earth/

sudo apt-get install lsb-core
sudo apt-get -f install  # may not be required
sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb 

# list installed packages
dpkg --get-selections | grep -i libre
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core

Need to see what I can do with this:

sudo apt-get install fslint

http://kegel.com/linux/jeos-vmware-player/jeos-vmware-player-howto.html

sudo apt-get clean
rm -rf /lib/linux-restricted-modules
rm /var/log/dpkg.log
rm /var/cache/apt/*pkgcache.bin
sudo apt-get autoremove
df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              19G  3.9G   14G  22% /
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade # seems to have done right thing.

var/cache/apt/archives and var/cache/apt/archives/partial

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-shrink-vmware-virtual-disk-files-vmdk

ls -lSr *.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff        1016 Aug 26 16:06 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff       65536 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s011.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff    12058624 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s010.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   144506880 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s006.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   286851072 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s004.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   305004544 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s005.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   383123456 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s009.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   649723904 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s003.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   735117312 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s007.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   854458368 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s008.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   968556544 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s002.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff  1870331904 Aug 26 16:25 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s001.vmdk


Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -d Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk 
  Defragment: 12% done.

ls -lSr *.vmdk-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff        1016 Aug 26 16:06 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff       65536 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s011.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff    12058624 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s010.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   144506880 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s006.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   286851072 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s004.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   305004544 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s005.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   383123456 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s009.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   649723904 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s003.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   735117312 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s007.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   854458368 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s008.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   968556544 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s002.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff  1870331904 Aug 26 16:33 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s001.vmdk

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -k Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk   Shrink: 10% done.

ls -lSr *.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff        1016 Aug 26 16:06 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff       65536 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s011.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff    12058624 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s010.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   144506880 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s006.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   286851072 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s004.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   305004544 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s005.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   383123456 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s009.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   649723904 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s003.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   735117312 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s007.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   854458368 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s008.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   968556544 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s002.vmdk
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff  1869873152 Aug 26 16:37 Ubuntu-11.04-32bit-s001.vmdk

# schwehr@Catbox4-MBAir.local 90 $ cd && du -hs
5.8G    .

Not really shrinking…

Apparently, I have to copy the image.

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -r Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk -t 0 new.vmdk

type 0 is a single growable file

ls -lSh new.vmdk 
-rw-------@ 1 schwehr  staff   5.8G Aug 26 16:44 new.vmdk

Running schrink from sudo vmware-tools inside of the guest ubuntu os

dfschwehr@ubuntu:~$ df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              19G  5.3G   13G  30% /
schwehr@ubuntu:~$ df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              19G  4.1G   14G  23% /
schwehr@ubuntu:~$ 

• http://maketecheasier.com/8-ways-to-maintain-a-clean-lean-ubuntu-machine/2008/10/07
• http://maketecheasier.com/shrink-your-virtualbox-vm/2009/04/06

df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              19G  3.9G   14G  22% /

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo vmware
shrink

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -r Ubuntu-11.04-32bit.vmdk -t 0 ubuntu-rt-20110908.vmdk

# /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -k ubuntu-rt-20110908.vmdk 
# This made no difference

sudo apt-get install wireshark nmap tcpdump
sudo apt-get socat

svga.vramSize = "<num bytes>"

The default for all VMs is 16MB.  The VM has to be restarted in order
for the change to take effect.