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Fedora VMWare Upgrade
When a new update of VMWare comes out, and it is time to upgrade VMWare Tools. Here’s an update on the instructions for upgrading VMWare Tools 6.0.1 through 6.0.4:
- Navigate to the VMWare Menu, choose Virtual Machine and in the drop down menu Install VMWare Tools. This will mount a virtual CD in the Oracle Unbreakable Linux virtual machine and it launches the following dialog box:
- Open a terminal session by right clicking anywhere in the desktop, and then choose Open in Terminal from the context menu. You can then run the VMWare Toolkit by following these instructions as the
rootuser:
The instructions for VMWare 6.0.0 through 6.0.2 are:
cd /media/VMware\ Tools cp VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz /tmp cd /tmp gunzip VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar cd vmware-tools-distrib sudo ./vmware-install.pl |
VMWare changed where the VMWare Tools CD are mounted. You can discover it by clicking on the VMware Tools in the left pane (this assumes you log on to Fedora as the student user, and the student user is a sudo-enabled user)
The instructions for VMWare Tools 6.0.4 forward are listed below. Only the first command changes. You should also note that the VMWare Tools library is the same:
cd /run/media/student/VMware\ Tools cp VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz /tmp cd /tmp gunzip VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar cd vmware-tools-distrib sudo ./vmware-install.pl |
The last step requires that you reply to a set of prompts. If you’d like to accept the default at one time, you can use the following command:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl --default |
Lastly, you’ll get these instructions form the Perl script that installs the VMWare tools:
The configuration of VMware Tools 9.6.2 build-1688356 for Linux for this running kernel completed successfully. You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take effect. You can now run VMware Tools by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the command line. To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following: 1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user 2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and, 3. Restart your X session. Enjoy, --the VMware team |
Fedora Install of MySQL
I built a new image on VMWare Fusion for my class, which required installing MySQL 5.6 on Fedora, Version 20. If you don’t know how to add your user to the sudoers list, you should check this older and recently updated blog post.
- Download the MySQL Yum Repository and launch the downloaded RPM.
- Install MySQL on Fedora, Version 20, which you can find with the following command:
shell> rpm -qa | grep mysql mysql-community-release-fc20-5.noarch |
The fc20-5 changes with point releases, but assuming that you’re installing the fc20-5 release:
shell> sudo yum localinstall mysql-community-release-fc20-5.noarch.rpm |
- Install MySQL on Fedora with the following command:
shell> sudo yum install mysql-server |
- Start the MySQL service on Fedora with the following command:
shell> sudo service mysqld start |
- Secure the MySQL installation with the following command:
shell> mysql_secure_installation |
- Set the MySQL Service to start with the Fedora operating system with the following command (not
chkconfig):
shell> sudo systemctl enable mysqld.service |
It sets the following two links:
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/mysql.service' ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mysqld.service' |
Restart the Fedora operating system to effect the changes.
- Reset the MySQL configuration file to enable external connections through Port 3306 with the following changes to the my:
Remark out the socket line, like this:
#socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock |
Add the bind-address and port lines below after you know the actual IP address of the server to the my.cnf file in the /etc directory.
You substitute the actual IP address for the nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn on the bind_address line with the actual IP address returned by the ifconfig command, like this:
shell> ifconfig |
Then, add these two lines to the my.cnf file.
bind-address=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn port=3306 |
It’s actually easier to use localhost.localdomain than an IP address when you use DHCP, like:
bind-address=localhost.localdomain port=3306 |
If you plan to connect from a host system, like Windows or Mac OS X, to a virtual Linux environment using DHCP, change localhost.localdomain to 0.0.0.0:
bind-address=0.0.0.0 port=3306 |
- Restart the mysqld service with the following syntax:
shell> sudo service mysqld restart |
You can check whether MySQL is listening on Port 3306 with this syntax:
shell> sudo netstat –anp | grep 3306 |
It displays:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1311/mysqld |
Go to this page if you want to install MySQL Workbench.
Nice “how-to” install OPAL on Ubuntu 8 Server
I noticed that somebody posted instructions and some scripts to install the OPAL (Oracle, Perl/PHP, Apache, Linux) in the OTN forum. I haven’t had a chance to run though it yet. Thought I’d point you to it directly. If you want the forum, go here. He’d like feedback in the forum.
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