Support VMWare as a virtualisation engine

[andypiper]

The attached shell script performs the same steps as the current testdrive script for kvm, virtualbox and parallels (i.e. sets up and boots a new virtual machine off the downloaded ISO), but uses VMWare Workstation 6.5+ - comments in the script describe possible error conditions etc. Feel free to include this as part of the main testdrive script, although you'll need to munge it into Python!

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Thanks for the script.

I'll get to this once Lucid cools down a little bit.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Can you test this and let me know if this works with the open-vm-tools package in multiverse?

I really need to be able to test this with *something* before I integrate and release it.

Thanks!

[andypiper (andypiperuk)]

So open-vm-tools does not appear to contain the vmrun command that this script requires, unfortunately. It looks like it does contain a lot of other stuff though. I'll have to setup a vm to test this in!

[andypiper (andypiperuk)]

Reading the open-vm-tools SourceForge page it looks like that's the stuff that runs *inside* the virtual machine to enable closer integration with the host rather than being the VMWare runtime.

I appreciate it's tricky for you. If you have any Pythonised stuff based off of this script that you want me to try out let me know.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Okay, thanks for the research. I'll get your changes rolled into the
python script for your testing. Cheers.