![]() ![]() The following creates two simple scripts which are needed if the graceful shutdown, suspend or reset actions are used in the Workstation menu:Įcho "/sbin/ifconfig $1 down" > /sbin/ifdown The following was needed before running the vmware-tools install script for the first time: Groups to which the user “user” has been system]# grep "user$" /etc/group wheel:x:10:root,user List of “foreign” packages related to the fonts system]# pacman -Qm cower 16-1 ![]() ![]() # Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command I had to change the sudoers permissions to be able install some AUR stuff when following the fonts ~]# more /etc/sudoers (.) As far as I can tell, it just ~]# more /etc/systemd/system/rvice ĮxecReload=/etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart If it doesn’t make sense for any reason, drop me a comment. Disclaimer: I’m a Gentooist and OpenRC user, so this systemd contraption is really not my strongest skill. This is the vmware-tools service that I created to get the tools running, including the shared folders. Ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Zone/SubZone ~]# more /etc/locale.gen (.)Įn_US.UTF-8 ~]# more /etc/nf (.) Replace Zone and SubZone in the snippet below to match your location The timezone is set to UTC, change it to your area. Note: the root partition is ~118GB of which ~109GB are free, which should be ok as a playground to begin ~]# more /etc/hostname arch Or put it differently, what has been changed from the default settings ? knowing this, you can very easily override my settings to your taste.ĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type This is considered as “non supported software”: don’t open bugs with this image, if you suspect anything, try first using Arch supported configurations. Usual disclaimer: this image is provided as is, you’re the only one responsible of what you do with it. Why is it here in the first place? Well I grew up with the fr layout and I’m too old to change my habits □ (Despite the us layout being the default one and set to higher priority, my fr layout seems to come up first, looks like a bug). Left-click on it to change it to “us”, or go to the system settings and remove the fr layout completely. Once you’re on the desktop, you’ll notice on the bottom right that the input locale is set to “fr”. User “user” logs in to the plasma desktop automatically. The installed account / password are user / user and root / root. Hit “play”, then answer “I copied it” to the question asked. The image comes with 2GB vRAM and 2vCPUs configured by default. vmx file using VMware Workstation/Player 12.5 or later, tweak the vCPU count and vRAM according to what your hardware allows. Expect a virtual image close to 5GB after decompression, so don’t unzip it on FAT32… Unzip it to your virtual machines folder. Give it to me, where do I download it ?.Network is configured as DHCP, with NAT on the host. Nice looking fonts, based on this tutorial. You get the accelerated vmwgfx video driver, shared folders (mounted in /mnt/hgfs when activated), drag and drop between host and VM as the main benefits. The latest official vmware-tools already pre-installed. I’ll try to refresh this post from time to time. Drop me a comment if you think I failed □ ![]() The result is really nice, kudos to Chris Braun.Īll in all the virtual image you can download in this post hopefully addresses the vmware-tools and font issues. After some searching a bit I found this thread, and included it in this virtual image. So, back to ugly fonts in Linux? Nope, can’t be. But Bohoomil seems to be M.I.A., and a recent update in harfbuzz made it incompatible with freetype, which left my plasma desktop not bootable anymore. Arch used to get a specific VIP treatment from Bohoomil, so installing infinality in Arch was super easy, no cryptic config editing at all. So I wanted a similar experience to Gentoo, more on this later.įor the fonts, I initially repeated what I knew about infinality on Gentoo. No need to create a specific systemd service only for the shared folders like this is described in the Arch wiki, nor messing with /etc/fstab. Maybe I see this as clunky based on my experience with the vmware-tools in Gentoo, where you get shared folders as soon as the vmware-tools service starts. What I mean by half-baked is the shared folders part. While Arch is far from being as … entertaining to install as Gentoo is, it’s still some work.Īfter installing Arch a couple of times on VMware Workstation/Player, I was left frustrated with two specific issues: ugly default font settings (but that’s not specific to VMware, nor to Arch for that matter…), and what I feel as half-baked vmware-tools installation instructions (as of ). A virtual Arch Linux KDE Plasma desktop for VMware Workstation (and Player) ![]()
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