Archive for July, 2008

Trixbox on VMWare? Sure!

Monday, July 7th, 2008

So some of my friends may know that in the past ive tried to run trixbox on vmware, and know I had to make a hack to get it to work “correctly,” IE the timing issue, and how i fixed it. (I had a post about it here).

So its been working fine, but when I moved, It took me some time to get my trixbox back up, just from different things going on.  So when I did, everything worked fine…except I had no audio being sent from my ata. DOH!

So instead of trying to work with it, i tried something else.  Trixbox has a VMWare pre-made image, which I wanted to try.

download the 2.6.1 VMWare version, unzip, insert into vmware server (1.0.5.andchange)….what?   it was made with a version with newer features?

Looking around, I start editing the files, and see config.version and virtualHW.version.  These look like I should be changing them!  Lets check another working vm…Yup, so I change the version, and next problem, same thing, but it referances the hard drive image.  Doh!.

so i asked google (or my new favorite variant: Goosh)

And I find this page, sweet!  I do what they say, and followed the comment about changing the hard drive (the dd command) and this worked.

Next problem, it doesnt know what kind of system “rhel5″ is.  So I edit the config from the gui, and tell it that its type “Other”.   Boot, and it works out of the box.

Now thats sweet!