{"id":87,"date":"2007-09-05T02:19:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T06:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/05\/vmware-and-my-carputer\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T02:19:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T06:19:41","slug":"vmware-and-my-carputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/05\/vmware-and-my-carputer\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare and my carputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest problem with the carputer I have is that its almost impossible to configure it easily &#8212; especially when its mounted in my car. So, what I&#8217;ve done is used VMWare to create a virtual machine that runs Linux on it, and then I used rsync to do a lil something like so from the virtual machine:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n\/usr\/bin\/rsync -apzv --delete --exclude=\/dev --exclude=\/sys --exclude=\/var\/log --exclude=\/var\/lock --exclude=\/var\/tmp --exclude=\/var\/run --exclude=\/proc --exclude=\/tmp -e \"ssh\" root@carputer_address:\/ \/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Which, of course, this command copies practically everything onto the virtual machine. Its a great solution so far (since you can easily copy changes back), the only real challenge was that I had to recompile the kernel to support the VMWare hardware. Haven&#8217;t gotten X working yet either, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that will be trivial compared to the fact that my carputer supports SSE2, but the host computer doesn&#8217;t, so I had to do the following<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nemerge -e world\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>after adjusting my build settings&#8230; grr. Recompiling 632 packages right now actually. Kept getting &#8216;invalid instruction&#8217; errors all over the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest problem with the carputer I have is that its almost impossible to configure it easily &#8212; especially when its mounted in my car. So, what I&#8217;ve done is used VMWare to create a virtual machine that runs Linux on it, and then I used rsync to do a lil something like so from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}