The development workstations at my place of business are a lot more usable when they are set up on LDAP. Find out your local LDAP information. Note that AutoFS 5. The settings might already be this way:. Reboot even from your chroot environment is fine. This can be the base system for any future customizations, like using X, making a web server, etc.
Up to this point, we could have gone in the direction of making a mail server, a Bugzilla site, or whatever. All of this is optional, so feel free to skip any of the below. First, update your USE flags to enable some important settings.
Add some more per-package USE flags that facilitate installing the new packages given the new settings again, preferably in their own file :. Looking at the latin fontconfig file, we can see that the system prefers some fonts by default:. You probably want to enable sub-pixel hinting for your fonts and the Liberation font package. This same eselect module enables various fonts— be sure to enable the fonts you just installed if they are not enabled by default.
The next two sections should be considered mutually exclusive. What you choose here will determine if you do KDE4 or Plasma the next sections mention exactly what to select. Choose wisely. As you will see below, we can even through Compiz into the mix to add eye-candy to an already fairly decent situation.
The desktop widgets already support it. This mirrors our discussions about SSH. Compiz lets you manifest multiple desktops as the sides of a cube, set tool-tips on fire, and so forth. So we take the information gathered by the livecd image about our virtual machine and its hardware and we bind those to our new root filesystem. This is similar to apt update in Ubuntu. Once that finishes, we can select a profile for our system. Which essentially tunes the system for a specific use-case server, workstation, etc.
We will be going with a KDE plasma environment listed at number six. We uncommented the line en US. The last command will start compiling the kernel which would take a long time, especially if you have limited hardware resources. After the kernel compilation we just need to make a few more changes like installing grub, adding a user and making sure that the operating system mounts the essential filesystems automatically during the boot process.
Setting a password for the root user is as simple as entering the command below and entering your new password when prompted:. Upon starting the VM again you will be greeted with a tty interface to your newly installed Gentoo operating system.
Login as using the username and password that you chose during the installation. Just the installation process for Gentoo reveals a lot more about the internal workings and structure underneath most Unix environments. If one desires to attain a deeper knowledge of the system the Gentoo Handbook would be a great place to start!
I am a tech and science writer with quite a diverse range of interests. For any options not shown here, their default values were used. Basically you just follow the instructions in the Gentoo Handbook the same way you would install Gentoo normally. Here we outlined the parts, to which you need to pay special attention.
To do so, you can do the following:. Now start the virtual machine. Since there is no partition on the virtual disk yet, your virtual machine should automatically boot from the CD-ROM drive. Once the boot screen shows up prompting for kernel and boot options, press enter for default boot.
If you want to be very sure about exactly what drives you need the best way is to use some built-in utilities. That command will tell you the particular devices VMWare is using. Type lsmod to be very sure because it will tell you what modules the liveCD used to boot up. These are specific options needed currently for most VMWare versions.
However, the safest way is to verify all of them with the previous "Finding your Devices" step. Your new kernel should have these device drivers for them:.
This can also be loaded using the e kernel module included in the default Gentoo This can also be loaded using the pcnet32 kernel module included in the default Gentoo If you like to have sound in your virtual Gentoo Linux, you will need to add support for it. These other things might be useful for udev.
The latest vmware VM appears to use a different scsi driver which can lead to problems. Replicating systems easily, helps a lot for setting up a test system.
Helps develop client-server systems, where you can simulate client-server interaction to the maximum even on single host. Carry OS as file - OS becomes portable as good as file! If we have internet connection available on Host OS, it cancels all of problems but if not then we need few of following methods to transfer files.
If it is a Linux system hosting VM, then we could use scp or nfs to share these files. Make sure to test its working by trying login from another system if possible.
Thing usually forgotten here is adding sshd to accept list of firewall or turning off firewall temporarily. If the hosts OS is windows. But On Windows it going to be a bit difficult to share these files. To create ISO image might need some third party software, and some search.
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