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 ==== Hard Drives ==== ==== Hard Drives ====
-VMware products will create a SCSI virtual hard drive for a Linux VM when using the new VM wizard. This controller is not recognized by the Tiny Core Linux kernel. Depending on the VMware product and version there may or may not be a 'Virtual Device Node' setting available in the 'New Virtual Machine Wizard'. If this cannot be selected when the hard disk is created, it is necessary to delete it and create a new one before powering on the virtual machine. The procedure for this depends again on the product and version. For some, you must go to 'Edit virtual machine settings' from the Virtual Machine page/tab.  For others, you can click the SCSI drive drop down, then remove then 'Add Hardware' and add a new hard disk. You may reuse the virtual disk file created earlier. If available, the easiest configuration is to use the SATA adapter, otherwise choose IDE.+VMware products will create a SCSI virtual hard drive for a Linux VM when using the new VM wizard. This controller is not recognized by the Tiny Core Linux kernel. This will become evident when no hard drive is detected during installation. Depending on the VMware product and version there may or may not be a 'Virtual Device Node' setting available in the 'New Virtual Machine Wizard'. If this cannot be selected when the hard disk is created, it is necessary to delete it and create a new one before powering on the virtual machine. The procedure for this depends again on the product and version. For some, you must go to 'Edit virtual machine settings' from the Virtual Machine page/tab.  For others, you can click the SCSI drive drop down, then remove then 'Add Hardware' and add a new hard disk. You may reuse the virtual disk file created earlier. If available, the easiest configuration is to use the SATA adapter, otherwise choose IDE.
  
  
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 Type 'backup' and answer 'Y' to save these changes. At this point the VM should be rebooted using 'sudo reboot'. Type 'backup' and answer 'Y' to save these changes. At this point the VM should be rebooted using 'sudo reboot'.
  
-==== Settings (that seem to work well) ==== +==== Suggested Settings ==== 
-RAM: 64 MB minimum if text only; for GUI consider at least 256MB. More is suggested based on desired use.+  * RAM: 64 MB minimum if text only; for GUI consider at least 256MB 
 +  * Select 'Accelerate 3D graphics' under the Display option to enable DRM 
 +  * Network Adapter: Depending on the product and version the network adapter may either be a pcnet32 or vmxnet3 
 +  * Network Adapter Connection: NAT (an Internet connection is suggested; Bridged may also work but is host-configuration dependent) 
 +  * Virtual hard disk: SATA default is 8 GB 
 +  * The shared folders will be accessible to the 'tc' user only, not even root can access the /mnt/hgfs directory. 
 +  * The desktop wallpaper and wbar will not adjust automatically to window resizing. For best results set the wallpaper to one color, no gradient or logo, and wbar to be vertical in the upper left corner 
 +  * The default terminal 'aterm' graphics do not work well with the VMware driver. Use 'rxvt' instead 
 +  * Udev has been known to crash VM's. Set 'udev.children-max=24' in the kernel command line to prevent this
  
-Network Adapter: Depending on the product and version the network adapter may either be a pcnet32 or vmxnet3. +==== VMWare and Open VM Tools Capabilities Known to Work ====
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-Network Adapter Connection: NAT (an Internet connection is suggested; Bridged may also work but is host-configuration dependent) +
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-Virtual disk: SATA default is 8 GB. +
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-The shared folders will be accessible to the 'tc' user only, not even root can access the /mnt/hgfs directory. +
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-The desktop wallpaper and wbar will not adjust automatically to window resizing. For best results set the wallpaper to one color, no gradient or logo, and wbar to be vertical in the upper left corner. +
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-The default terminal 'aterm' graphics do not work well with the VMware driver. Use 'rxvt' instead. +
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-Udev has been known to crash VM's. Set 'udev.children-max=24' in the kernel command line to prevent this. +
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-==== VMWare and Open VM Tools ==== +
-Both the proprietary VMWare Tools and the Open VM Tools can be compiled and installed in a TinyCore guest virtual machine. These require Xorg because there is an xf86-video-vmware driver that must be used. Capabilities known to work are:+
   * Automatic resizing of the desktop with the guest window including full screen support (reposition wbar to upper left of desktop)   * Automatic resizing of the desktop with the guest window including full screen support (reposition wbar to upper left of desktop)
 +  * Multi-monitor full screen support including cycling through displays
   * Automatic mouse grab and ungrab   * Automatic mouse grab and ungrab
-  * Multi-monitor full screen support including cycling through displays 
   * VMXnet3 network module in place of the PCNet32 module   * VMXnet3 network module in place of the PCNet32 module
 +  * Access to host devices such as USB drives
   * USB 3.0 is supported   * USB 3.0 is supported
   * Host shared folder access using HGFS (mounted at /mnt/hgfs)   * Host shared folder access using HGFS (mounted at /mnt/hgfs)
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   * Copy/paste between host/guest   * Copy/paste between host/guest
   * Sound (requires alsa and alsa-config extensions)   * Sound (requires alsa and alsa-config extensions)
-  * Access to host devices such as USB drives + 
-Because VMWare doesn't provide prebuilt binaries for TC, the automatic update feature can't work. The steps to building the open-vm-tools extensions are [[wiki:open_vm_tools|here]].+Because VMWare doesn't provide prebuilt binaries for TC, the automatic update feature can't work.
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