startup OpenSUSE

Virtualbox snapshots

Before doing critical stuff in your virtual machine take a snapshot. If sth awfully goes wrong you are able to return to your snapshot. With Virtualbox you are able to create lots of snapshots and delete them later to save diskspace.

OpenSUSE 11.2 x86

infos about VM

Image contains OpenSUSE 11.2 x86 standard installation inc. network support and VirtualBox guest additions

default user/password: opensuse/reverse

admin user/password: root/reverse

first start

Now startup your VM by clicking the green button in VirtualBox.

Change your keyboard layout if you don’t use a US-keyboard.

Press SUSE button > configure desktop > regional & language > keyboard layout > enable keyboard layouts > add language and move it to top postion > apply

network settings

start yast2 (OpenSUSE setup tool)

enter password reverse

EMC Networker server requires a non  changing IP address and a reliable name resolution service. You have several options:

non changing IP address:

• static IP address setup (manual setup of valid network settings, be careful – avoid duplicate IP addresses in your network!!!)
• DHCP with address reservation (reserve an IP address for your VMs NIC / MAC address on your DHCP server)

reliable name resolution:

• /etc/hosts (manual setup of hostname and corresponding IP address in text file)
• DNS (manual setup of hostname and corresponding IP address in your DNS server)

In this example I choose static IP address and /etc/hosts.

switch to network devices > network settings > select NIC > edit

add hostname to /etc/hosts

switch to network devices > network settings > hostnames

partitioning, formating and mounting

format and mount your second virtual disk to /opt and /aftd – you will need it later for installation of MHVTL / as storage for your virtual tape library (20GB) and Networker advanced filetype devices / disk storage (10GB) …

switch to system > partitioner > select disk sdb > add…

software requirements

Networker Management Console (NMC) will require Sun Java Plugin for Firefox. OpenSUSE comes with OpenJDK which doesn’t work with NMC.

uninstall

• java-1_6_0-openjdk
• java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin
• rsyslogd

install

• java-1_6_0-sun
• java-1_6_0-sun-plugin
• pdksh
• openmotif
• openmotif-libs
• libcap1
• libstdc++33
• syslogd

in yast2 switch to software > software management > use search tab to find packages

press accept/continue

run software management once again > view > patterns > select…

• base development
• Linux Kernel development

press accept/continue (download is >700MB, this may take a while)

After finishing installation shutdown OpenSUSE, take a snapshot and start the VM once again.

start shell (Terminal), do some workarounds and start an OS-update

opensuse@nwsrv:~> su -
Password: reverse
nwsrv:~ # cd /usr/bin
nwsrv:/usr/bin # ln -s /bin/logger
nwsrv:/usr/bin # groupadd vtl
nwsrv:/usr/bin # useradd -G vtl vtl
nwsrv:/usr/bin # mkdir /opt/vtl
nwsrv:/usr/bin # zypper up

Update may take a while (400MB)…

After finishing updates shutdown OpenSUSE, take a snapshot and start the VM once again.