08-10-2010

The continuation of yesterday. I started working in the morning itself. As I heard network sharing is the best idea,  I installed samba server in Ubuntu. It was fine. I simply installed it using apt-get. After that I created a folder and shared in the network in Windows7. Now using samba I can open that shared folder. 

But also the copy paste between OSs functionality was working. So the shared folder never need anymore. I copied qemu for linux and the OpenWRT image into linux. But I don't know how to install qemu. Because I can't find any install file inside it. It was the souce. I have to compile and make it. I read about it only in the evening. As I don't know how to compile it, again I used apt-get to install qemo. Finally I converted the raw image into vmdk image. And I created the vmx file by copying the code provided in the post itself. 

I copied both vmdk and vmx file into window. Now I opened that in VMware. As usual, it didn't run. It has reported a syntax error. I'm exhausted. I searched for possibilities to convert binary file into iso image. The result came as there are software available to do  that. 

So now I started how to compile source code into binary file. I read in linux.org. Also searched many posts,  blogs, etc. Till didn't find anything valuable. Search will continue tomorow...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

07-10-2010

Today I started working for project, after a week gap. I tried to install OpenWRT in VMware. I read many posts about it. But I can't find the apt one. At last in the evening I found a Chinese post about it. I translated it into English (thanks to Google translation).

That told about another virtual cpu Qemu. It said that there is an option in Qemu to convert raw image into VMware image (vmdk). I thought that would work. Fortunately both Qemu and VMware image are small (Qemu is 3MB and VMware image is around 50MB). But mistakenly I downloaded the LInux version of Qemu. Then I started again the Windows version (7MB).

In that evening my modem's speed sucks. So I put the download and went to another work. My bother came and just closed the downloads. When I came back, my system was shutdown. When I booted it, the aero theme is not working. I had only the older type of visual experience. I try to look about the problem in Internet. So I started connecting my modem. Again there was an error that some service to make remote connection couldn't be run.

But fortunately that error helped. I opened msconfig to see the services which are allowed to run. There I saw that some services including that remote network connection service and the theme manager. I simply enabled all the services and restarted my system.

After restarting the system everything worked fine. I didn't know why that was happened. So I ran a full scan by panda cloud anti virus and at the same time I resumed the download (fortunately I do all my download using a download manager).

The scan as well as the download finishes around 11 o clock night. After that only I felt better. I ran the command to convert the raw OpenWRT image into vmdk image(qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk

). But again my time sucks.  Whenever I ran it a Windows dialogue box appeared and said that qemu-image is not responding so close the program. There was no alternate option.

As my good time I have already downloaded the linux version of Qemu. So I started my Ubuntu 10.04 in VMware. As doing copy and paste between Windows host and Windows guest, I can't do with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I installed VMware tools inside the guest Ubuntu (here I learned to use gzip, tar and how to install a .pl file).But that never helped.

I searched for solutions online. The best way they told is network sharing. But how to? This is not the right time to find the answer. Because now the time is 12.30AM. I was thinking about the butterfly effect (the chaos theory) and shuteddown my system...