-- MikeGore

VMware Workstation setup

Downloads

• Vmware Workstation Downloads
  • look for "Get Free Trial" - you will be prompted to enter the license key in the install process.
• https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info?slug=desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_pro/14_0
• Locally on ASIMOV

Windows

19Dec2018 Mike Gore

• PATH: \\asimov\exports\export\COMMON\VMWARE\Windows
  • VMware-workstation-full-15.5.2-15785246.exe

Linux

22Jul2020 Mike Gore

• Note If you have secure boot enable please read the next section
• Recommend uninstall older product first - see Uninstall section below
• PATH: cscf-adm@asimov:/images/exports/export/COMMON/VMWARE/Linux/
  • VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.2-15785246.x86_64.bundle
• Use rsync to copy to your local machine
  • 64bit: rsync cscf-adm@asimov:/images/exports/export/COMMON/VMWARE/Linux/VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.2-15785246.x86_64.bundle .

Secure Boot vmmon and vmnet module signing

• • If you have secure boot enable vmmon and vmnet will not load
  • This is because the modules are compiled locally on the users machine and can not be signed
    • If you can disable secure boot then do so - otherwise read the article self signing the modules https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146460

Disable Shared VMs

• By default VMware Workstation enabled shared VMs and host port 80 and 443
• To disable shared VMs:
  • Open vmware
    • Edit -> Preferences -> Shared VMs
      • Uncheck Enable virtual machine sharing and remote access

Install

• 64bit: bash VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.2-15785246.x86_64.bundle
• Locally copies of VMware software are kept on ASIMOV
  • CIFS/SMBFS access: \\asimov\exports\export\COMMON\VMWARE
  • SSHFS/rsync access: cscf-adm@asimov:/images/exports/export/COMMON/VMWARE/Linux
• Notes: use suggested defaults - Eclipse not required

Uninstall

• To uninstall VMWare Workstation:
  • vmware-installer --uninstall-product vmware-workstation
  • rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware *

License

• Please Contact Lawrence Folland lfolland@cs to see if you qualify for the site license coverage
• See details of the Faculty Licensing process at VMwareLicense
• Obtain the license key from CSCF
  • Help -> Enter Serial Number
  • Fill in University of Waterloo and your name
  • Keep a copy of the license key on the machine say under ~/.vmware as every user on the machine will have to enter the key
• Edit Virtual Machine Settings

Admin License Link

Administrative License Link - Access Restricted

Ubuntu Version notes

• If you have Secure Boot enabled see the section above on Secure Boot

Port Forwarding to a NATed VM

• Assuming your VM has an IP address of 172.16.128.129 and we want to forward 22222 to the VM
• Edit: /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
  • [incomingtcp]
  • 22222 = 172.16.128.129:22222

recompile kernel modules manually for host

• vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

restart vmware networks

• vmware-networks --stop
• vmware-networks --start

Run a VM as a service

• See vmware-run for details

Work Abounds if vmnet service does not start

• Suggest you try this Uninstall procedure above - especally the "rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware*" last step
• Try reinstall product - it seems the uninstall does not removed some library files that can prevent correct vmnet networking install
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/449629/error-installing-vmware-workstation-on-ubuntu
• To test if the kernel modules fhave been compiled correctly: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

• Works fine unless you have Secure Boot enabled - see Secure boot section

Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS

• Work fine for versions >= 12.5 Vmware Workstation - follow the Uninstall steps above prior to an upgrade

Ubuntu 14.04LTS

• 12 works fine - follow the Uninstall steps above prior to an upgrade

Ubuntu 12.04

• We suggest using version 9

VMware Version 8.04 and older

• Networking is broken - download these files to fix
  • patch-modules_3.2.0.sh
  • vmware3.2.0.patch
• chmod 755 patch-modules_3.2.0.sh
  • Note: at the top of ./patch-modules_3.2.0.sh is a line that says:
    • vmreqver=8.0.4 - change it to the version you are fixing
• ./patch-modules_3.2.0.sh

Ubuntu 10.04

• The installer will not create a launcher - you can create one manually
  • Create an Application launcher - right click on "Applications" menu item top left of Ubuntu destop
    • Edit Menus
    • New Item
    • Name: VMWARE
    • command /usr/bin/vmware
    • icon for vmware: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/vmware-workstation.svg

Virtual Machine

Expanding a Virtual disk from command line

• vmware-vdiskmanager -x 200GB myDisk.vmdk

Fixing a Virtual disk from command line

• vmware-vdiskmanager -R myDisk.vmdk

Preparing a VM to Share with others

• Defragment and Compact Your Image
  • Virtual Machine Settings -> Hardware -> Hard Disk -> Utilities -> Defragment
  • Virtual Machine Settings -> Hardware -> Hard Disk -> Utilities -> Compact
• Convert it into a single file

Note: the down side of this is that if you backup your host a single large file will have more backup overhead when it changes so this is NOT recommended!

• • vmware-vdiskmanager -r MyVirtualMachineDisk.vmdk -t 0 SingleDiskFile.vmdk
  • vmware-vdiskmanager examples

Help

vmware-vdiskmanager
VMware Virtual Disk Manager - build 703057.
Usage: vmware-vdiskmanager OPTIONS <disk-name> | <mount-point>
Offline disk manipulation utility
  Operations, only one may be specified at a time:
     -c                   : create disk.  Additional creation options must
                            be specified.  Only local virtual disks can be
                            created.
     -d                   : defragment the specified virtual disk. Only
                            local virtual disks may be defragmented.
     -k                   : shrink the specified virtual disk. Only local
                            virtual disks may be shrunk.
     -n <source-disk>     : rename the specified virtual disk; need to
                            specify destination disk-name. Only local virtual
                            disks may be renamed.
     -p                   : prepare the mounted virtual disk specified by
                            the mount point for shrinking.
     -r <source-disk>     : convert the specified disk; need to specify
                            destination disk-type.  For local destination disks
                            the disk type must be specified.
     -x <new-capacity>    : expand the disk to the specified capacity. Only
                            local virtual disks may be expanded.
     -R                   : check a sparse virtual disk for consistency and attempt
                            to repair any errors.
     -e                   : check for disk chain consistency.
     -D                   : make disk deletable.  This should only be used on disks
                            that have been copied from another product.

  Other Options:
     -q                   : do not log messages

  Additional options for create and convert:
     -a <adapter>         : (for use with -c only) adapter type
                            (ide, buslogic, lsilogic). Pass lsilogic for other adapter types.
     -s <size>            : capacity of the virtual disk
     -t <disk-type>       : disk type id

  Disk types:
      0                   : single growable virtual disk
      1                   : growable virtual disk split in 2GB files
      2                   : preallocated virtual disk
      3                   : preallocated virtual disk split in 2GB files
      4                   : preallocated ESX-type virtual disk
      5                   : compressed disk optimized for streaming
      6                   : thin provisioned virtual disk - ESX 3.x and above

     The capacity can be specified in sectors, KB, MB or GB.
     The acceptable ranges:
                           ide adapter : [1MB, 2040.0GB]
                           scsi adapter: [1MB, 2040.0GB]
        ex 1: vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 850MB -a ide -t 0 myIdeDisk.vmdk
        ex 2: vmware-vdiskmanager -d myDisk.vmdk
        ex 3: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk
        ex 4: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 36GB myDisk.vmdk
        ex 5: vmware-vdiskmanager -n sourceName.vmdk destinationName.vmdk
        ex 6: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 4 -h esx-name.mycompany.com \
              -u username -f passwordfile "[storage1]/path/to/targetDisk.vmdk"
        ex 7: vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk
        ex 8: vmware-vdiskmanager -p <mount-point>
              (A virtual disk first needs to be mounted at <mount-point>)

Virtual Machines

• See: \\asimov.uwaterloo.ca\IMAGES\vmware

Windows 10 Enterprise and Applications and Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS

W10U16041-VM-500G-F16-V1

Updated Oct 17

• This image corresponds to both of U16041-VM-250G-F16-V2 and W10-250G-F16-V2 combined as one 500G image
• See also CS Grad image W10U16041_VM_500G_F16_V1
• Windows:
  • Users: cscf-adm cscf-op (2016 passwords)
  • Applications: uwcs-workstation Matlab 2015b maple17
  • * updates
    • Summary of steps done in updates script
• Ubuntu:
  • Users: cscf-adm cscf-op (2016 passwords)
  • Applications: uwcs-workstation Matlab 2015b maple17
  • * updates
    • Summary of steps done in updates script

Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

U16041-VM-250G-F16-V2

Updated 17Oct2016

• See also CS Grad image U16041_VM_250G_F16_V2
• Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/vmware/U16041-VM-260G-F16-V2
• Users: cscf-adm cscf-op (2016 passwords)
• Applications: uwcs-workstation Matlab 2015b maple17
• * updates
  • Summary of steps done in updates script

Windows 10 Enterprise and Applications

W10-VM-250G-F18-V2

Updated 19Dec2018 Mike Gore

• See also CS Grad image W10_VM_250G_F18_V2
• We have clonezilla images of the Windows 10 VM

Clonezilla Image W10VM-gen-250g-v1-x

Update 7 Dec 2015

• Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10VM-gen-250g/W10VM-gen-250g-v1-x
• Users: cscf-adm cscf-op (2016 passwords)
• Applications: uwcs-workstation Matlab 2015b maple17

Clonezilla Image W10VM-gen-250g-v1

Update 7 Dec 2015

• Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10VM-gen-250g/W10VM-gen-250g-v1
• Sysprepped - see SysPrep#Windows_10 for how Windows 10 sysprep setup is done

VMware settings that correspond to W10VM-gen-250g-v1-x

• Vmware version: requires VMware Workstation Pro V12
• Local Accounts:
  • cscf-adm with 2015 password
  • cscf-op with 2015 password
• Virtual Hardware
  • 4096MB ram
  • CPU cores = 2
  • Virtual Disk size is 250G SCSI
  • Network: NAT

VMware files that correspond to W10VM-gen-250g-v1-x

Update 7 Dec 2015

• Vmware version: requires VMware Workstation Pro V12
• Not sysprepped
• CSCF Research Support has put together an Windows 10 x64 Enterprise VM with every application we could think of
• Location of raw VMware files:
  • SSHFS: cscf-adm@asimov.uwaterloo.ca:/coregroup/images/vmware/Windows 10 x64/ (user cscf-adm 2014 password)
  • CIFS/SMBFS access: \\asimov\IMAGES\IMAGES\Windows 10 x64 (user cscf-adm 2014 password)
• Installing on your machine
  • Copy cscf-adm@asimov.uwaterloo.ca:/coregroup/images/vmware/Windows 10 x64/ to the folder you have chosen to store your VM's in (create one if needed)
• Start VMware
• *File Menu -> Open ->
  • Browse to: Windows 10 x64/Windows 10 x64.vmdk

What is included in the Windows 10 Enterprise image

• see your Point Of Contact for more details
• Should be used for testing on cscf staff workstations until we key a final key server key from IST (It currently has a limited activation MAK key as of 7 Dec 2015)
  • Once we get a new "key server" key we can apply it to this image and continue use it for mass deployment.
• W10VM-gen-250g-v1-x specific notes
  • ALL applications and updates were current as of 4 Dec 2015
  • NO printers installed yet
  • Symantec SEP AV NOT installed - the SEP AV 12.1 64bit installer is on the cscf-adm desktop
  • Windows is Activated
  • Office 2013 is activated
• Local Accounts:
  • cscf-adm with 2015 password
  • cscf-op with 2015 password
• Applications:
  • 7-zip 7z1212-x64
  • Adobe Reader 11.0.10
  • EASYBCD 2.3
  • GIMP 2.8.16
  • Google Chrome 47.0.2526.73m
  • GOW 0.70
  • newget.exe v3.30
  • Gnu Emacs 24.tunes5
  • iTunes 12.3.1.23
  • Java 8u66
  • Maple 2015
  • Matlab R2015a
  • Microsoft Office 2013
  • MikTex 2.9.5731-x64
  • Firefox 42.0
  • Thunderbird 38.4.0
  • SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9 (Build 283)
  • Symantec AV 12.1 (installer is on cscf-adm Desktop - NOT installed in image!)
  • VLC Video Lan 2.2.1
  • Vim 7.4
  • Xming 7-7-0-2
  • Xming Fonts 7.5.0.93

Windows 7 Enterprise and Applications

Update 25 Nov 2013 Note: for this example we are using the cscf-adm user - replace with your own userid

• CSCF Research Support has put together an Windows 7 x64 Enterprise VM with every application we could think of
  • On ASIMOV the Windows 7 VM is located under
    • CIFS/SMBFS access: \\asimov\coregroup\vmware\Win7-x64
    • SSHFS/rsync acess: rsync -a cscf-adm@asimov:/coregroup/images/vmware/Win7-x64/ ~/vmware/Win7-x64
  • see your Point Of Contact for more details
• We assume for the next step we put the Windows 7 VM under ~/vmware/Win7-x64
• Start VMware
• File Menu -> Open -> /home/cscf-adm/vmware/Win7-x64/VMware-Win7E.vmdk
• Update the defaults for Memory and Processors. This is the existing defaults:
  • Memory - at least 6G
  • Processors - Two

What is included in the Windows 7 Enterprise image

ALL applications and updates were current as of 25 Nov 2013

Note I have installed Microsoft Security Essentials for a lightweight AntiVirus alternative - some people might want Symantec AV but it will impact your VM and host performance

• 7-zip
• Acrobat Pro
• Bullzip PDF Printer
• FileZilla FTP Client (does SCP too)
• GIMP
• Google Chrome
• Gnu Emacs
• iTunes
• Maple
• Matlab
• Microsoft Office 2010
• MkTex
• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• OpenOffice
• PuTTY
• Quicktime
• SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9 (Build 283)
• VLC Video Lan
• Vim 7.2
• Xming 6.9.0.31
• Xming Fonts 7.5.0.8

Windows XP and Applications 11 APR 2011

Note: for this example we are using the cscf-adm user - replace with your own userid

• CSCF Research Support has put together an XP VM with every application we could think of.
  • On ASIMOV the XP VM is located under
    • CIFS/SMBFS access: \\asimov\coregroup\images\vmware/XP-11APR2011
    • SSHFS/rsync acess: rsync -a cscf-adm@asimov:/coregroup/images/vmware/XP-11APR2011/ ~/vmware/xp-vmware
  • see your Point Of Contact for more details
• We assume for the next step we put the XP VM under ~/vmware/xp-vmware
• Start VMware
• File Menu -> Open -> /home/cscf-adm/vmware/xp-vmware/xp-vmware.vmx
  • Memory - at least 1G nor mare then 2G
  • Processors - One

Old Images

Windows XP and Applications 10 June 2009

Note: for this example we are using the cscf-adm user - replace with your own userid

• CSCF Research Support has put together an XP VM with every application we could think of.
  • On ASIMOV the XP VM is located under
    • CIFS/SMBFS access: \\asimov\coregroup\images\vmware/XP-10june2009
    • SSHFS/rsync acess: rsync -a cscf-adm@asimov:/coregroup/images/vmware/XP-10june2009/ ~/vmware/xp-vmware
  • see your Point Of Contact for more details
• We assume for the next step we put the XP VM under ~/vmware/xp-vmware
• Start VMware
• File Menu -> Open -> /home/cscf-adm/vmware/xp-vmware/xp-vmware.vmx
  • Memory - at least 1G nor mare then 2G
  • Processors - One

Starting the Virtual Machine

• VMware may prompt you to take ownership - do it
• VMware will detect the VM image has been moved or copied - pick copied
• Note the pop-up concerning removable devices for future reference

Samba

This allows sharing of the Ubuntu file system to the Windows VM's

• apt-get install samba
• /etc/samba/smb.conf
• global section

Notes: Change or set the following options:

[global]
      workgroup = CS-GENERAL
# Enable locahost and vmnet only - no outside samba access for security
      interfaces = lo vmnet*
      security = user
      invalid users = root
      socket options = TCP_NODELAY
      printing = cups



# emove the # or ; in front of ;[homes]
[homes]
      browseable = yes
      read only = no
      create mask = 0700
      directory mask = 0700
      valid users = %S

Admin Users

• smbpasswd -a cscf-adm
• smbpasswd -a cs-op

Users

Add any addition users you need

• smbpasswd -a userid

Updates scripts actions

• Author: Mike Gore
• Date:
  • 5 Oct 2016
  • Tested with 16.04.1 lts
• Usage:
  • ./updates [-a] [ -u userid ] [ -h hostname ] [ -y ]*
  • -a included CS AD pre-setup steps
  • -h hostname Rename host to hostname
  • -u userid userid
  • If -u is is specified CS AD will NOT be done
  • Always add the user to local admin groups and sudoers
  • -y Do not ask about or remove resolvconf or network manager
  • Otherwise there are two question near the beginning of the script
  • 1) Do you wish to purge network manager (answer NO on laptops)
  • 2) Remove resolve conf, update /etc/resolv.conf from CSCF (No for custom configuration)
• References:
• https:
  • /cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/MetaPackages
• https:
  • /cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/infrastructure/setups/ubuntu/apt/
• https:
  • /cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/infrastructure/standard-platforms/architectures#LinuxSupportedApplications

• Proceedures:
  • Update hostname - needs -h option
  • install software-properties-common is required for apt-add-repository
  • Update APT sources.list to mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
  • remove odd dead repositories
  • Add CS Package Repository
  • Add depot.cs.uwaterloo.ca gpg key to the apt key ring
  • Add Graphics Drivers PPA
  • Computer Language Applications racket PPA
    • Information from "https://launchpad.net/~plt/+archive/racket".
  • Owncloud client curently has many bugs - not installing
    • - ie indicator missing and networking disabled
  • Add cononical PPA
  • Add Boot Repair Repository
  • Refrese package list
  • Allow unattended securitry updates
  • Disable new distro-upgrade check
  • Verifying that cscf-adm is in sudoers file
  • Verifying that adm is in sudoers file
  • Update system SSH with local CS known hosts
  • Add CSCF root PUBLIC key to user root authorized_keys file
  • Update package list after all of the PPA updates above
  • Install Boot Repair
  • F15 fixes - remove deja-dup
  • Update profile search path
  • GRUB patches - also fixes newtwork device naming - ie p6p2 becomes eth0 ...
  • * Remove old network UDEV rules to keep interface names constant*
  • Add NFS client packages
  • Install UWdir
  • Installl CSCF SNMP configuration
  • DHCP Client update fix
  • Disable Guest Account
  • Conditionally remove Network Manager - Answer NO on laptops
  • Conditionally remove Resolv Conf
    • Add CS resolv.conf
  • PURGE insecure services like telnet
  • Install CSCF Cups printing setup
  • Install UW LC Command
  • F16 fixes by David and Lawrence
    • 2 Sept 2016
    • Mike Gore - script implimentation
  • Echo create /xhbin directory and links
  • CS LDAP userid shells
  • Setup CSCF home directory symlinks used by CS AD /u../u9 to /home
  • Set Default printer to lj_csgrad
  • Update package list and verify we can see uwcs- packages
  • Pam stack fix for CS AD updates go here - Does not run unless -a specified
  • Add a user as administrator if -u userid specified