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redgsturbo
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 Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:18 pm Post subject: VMWare, running native gentoo as VM |
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Hey...
Currently have OSX 10.6, Windows 7 ultimate, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and a fully hardened Gentoo running on a macbook pro... all natively.
Currently they all boot natively, and they all boot within VMWare... what I would like to do, is have gentoo start open-vm-tools when booting into vmware, and not when its not. Likewise, I'd like it to use vmware video driver or nvidia driver when appropriate, and disable hardware sensors when in a vm environment.
To boil it down, is there a way to do conditional service starting, driver selection, and possibly applets in gnome? Any nice clean way to get this done? |
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redgsturbo
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| also, when I <ctrl-command> to release the curser in the VM, gentoo makes it switch to the next lowest virtual console. This is annoying. This doesn't happen in ubuntu, or when I'm booted in a gentoo livecd so I know its a config issue... but no clue what to change |
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hirakendu
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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I can say something about the automatic gpu detection part. You can use some of the gpu-configuration scripts in Sabayon Linux distribution for automatic gpu detection. I modified it a little bit and here is how to use it.
1. Copy the following files (scripts and configs) to appropriate places.
1.1. Copy the xorg.conf files for each gpu to /etc/X11/ from here.
1.2. Copy the init scripts that calls the gpu-configuration scripts to /etc/init.d/ from here.
1.3. Copy the actual gpu-configuration scripts to /usr/sbin/ from here.
2. Add the copied init script in Step 1.2 to startup:
| Code: | | rc-update add x-setup default |
3. At this stage, it should be ready to go. At every startup, the x-setup init script runs and copies the appropriate xorg.conf to /etc/X11/ and also runs "eselect opengl set nvidia" or "eselect opengl set xorg-x11" and links appropriate hardware 3d acceleration libraries. To manually select the driver, you may run for example | Code: | | xconf-nvidia # for nvidia-driver |
or | Code: | | xconf-nouveau # for nouveau-driver |
. It is also possible to pass the kernel command line option like "xdriver=xorg" or "xdriver=nvidia" to the bootloader.
4. Potentially you need to create a new section for vmware in the gpu-configuration script and a specialiized xorg.conf too. I might be doing it sometime in future, although I don't use vmware a lot.
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redgsturbo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there a way to make udev load the nvidia driver at boot, and the vmware? If I can get away without using an xorg.conf that would be ideal. |
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hirakendu
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Potentially, there should be a way to load nvidia-drivers without xorg.conf, using just udev, similar to how other drivers like radeon and intel are loaded. If I remember correctly, xorg did have support for loading even the proprietary drivers using hal, but was removed at some time. Regardless, you may end up writing udev rules for specific hardware id's, and is essentially the same as the script(s) mentioned above.
So did you try the scripts I mentioned above. If so, did it work?
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redgsturbo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| hirakendu wrote: | Potentially, there should be a way to load nvidia-drivers without xorg.conf, using just udev, similar to how other drivers like radeon and intel are loaded. If I remember correctly, xorg did have support for loading even the proprietary drivers using hal, but was removed at some time. Regardless, you may end up writing udev rules for specific hardware id's, and is essentially the same as the script(s) mentioned above.
So did you try the scripts I mentioned above. If so, did it work? |
Well I do thank you for the help of course... I actually went through them thoroughly and started modifying them so they were more generic, then packaging them in an ebuild so the solution to my problem can be reused more easily by others, and then I said to myself... why isn't udev doing this for me (the config part of course)? |
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redgsturbo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Another issue I'm having, is that open-vm-tools is installed and running (mouse does not lock in an X session), but resizing the window does not adjust resolution of the screen itself... just changes its size while keeping the ratio locked. Any idea why this isn't working? Its only in gentoo. Ubuntu works fine :/ |
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hirakendu
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:53 am Post subject: |
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I never specifically looked for an ebuild, but after searching around, I found that Sabayon Linux does have a package called sys-apps/gpu-detector and is in the portage overlay "sabayon".
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redgsturbo
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| hirakendu wrote: | | I never specifically looked for an ebuild, but after searching around, I found that Sabayon Linux does have a package called sys-apps/gpu-detector and is in the portage overlay "sabayon". |
Yeah I saw that, but it is doing far more than your script... I emerged it and it pulled in a bunch of sabayon livecd tools, and was a totally different gpu-detector script |
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Shining Arcanine
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:41 am Post subject: Re: VMWare, running native gentoo as VM |
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| redgsturbo wrote: | Hey...
Currently have OSX 10.6, Windows 7 ultimate, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and a fully hardened Gentoo running on a macbook pro... all natively.
Currently they all boot natively, and they all boot within VMWare... what I would like to do, is have gentoo start open-vm-tools when booting into vmware, and not when its not. Likewise, I'd like it to use vmware video driver or nvidia driver when appropriate, and disable hardware sensors when in a vm environment.
To boil it down, is there a way to do conditional service starting, driver selection, and possibly applets in gnome? Any nice clean way to get this done? |
Try writing a script and editing /etc/conf.d/local.start. |
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