meluin
04-06-2009, 11:09 AM
Hallo,
I've recently been trying to setup vortexbox on vmware (workstation 6.5); this in work ("network config") and at home ("local config")
install itself works fine, but still dealing with the following issues:
1) vortexbox initialy sets Network to NAT (not bridged); this might work for replay on the same machine, yet the bridged configuration works properly only on the "network config" (with DHCP and so on) and has advantages when sharing on the network;
2) probably as to 1), the system on the network has problems to recognize disks; I wondered, too, where the external database (CDDB ?) is configured: my "local config" does retrieve informations, but to some CDs popular in Europe (I am from Austria) it simply fails ...
3) worst of all: vmware provides the same "layer" to the system, yet "network config" with a relative new DVD-Drive (LG) loops in endless "Buffer I/O", and stalls after abortation ... this is very annoying; I tried to install vmware tools, but this needs more Linux-Know-How than I have - the actual vmware-tools must be recompiled to fit for the underlying fedora 10;
I wondered if the vmware-tools would help a lot, as fas as I read in similar threads the Fedora-Core, that is "vortexbox" are directly adressing the CD-hardware ... any suggestions on this?
ah, yes, those Buffer I/O do occure on my "local install" as well, but do not lead the system to stall; and - just a feeling - system runs smoother on the VM-Player than in the workstation itself ...
last but not least: great system indeed; I would like to couple it finally with Mozilla-Songbird, and was wondering if editing the mp3-tags in songbird would result in changings on the vortexbox-storage or not ...
Thanks for considering a response ...
I've recently been trying to setup vortexbox on vmware (workstation 6.5); this in work ("network config") and at home ("local config")
install itself works fine, but still dealing with the following issues:
1) vortexbox initialy sets Network to NAT (not bridged); this might work for replay on the same machine, yet the bridged configuration works properly only on the "network config" (with DHCP and so on) and has advantages when sharing on the network;
2) probably as to 1), the system on the network has problems to recognize disks; I wondered, too, where the external database (CDDB ?) is configured: my "local config" does retrieve informations, but to some CDs popular in Europe (I am from Austria) it simply fails ...
3) worst of all: vmware provides the same "layer" to the system, yet "network config" with a relative new DVD-Drive (LG) loops in endless "Buffer I/O", and stalls after abortation ... this is very annoying; I tried to install vmware tools, but this needs more Linux-Know-How than I have - the actual vmware-tools must be recompiled to fit for the underlying fedora 10;
I wondered if the vmware-tools would help a lot, as fas as I read in similar threads the Fedora-Core, that is "vortexbox" are directly adressing the CD-hardware ... any suggestions on this?
ah, yes, those Buffer I/O do occure on my "local install" as well, but do not lead the system to stall; and - just a feeling - system runs smoother on the VM-Player than in the workstation itself ...
last but not least: great system indeed; I would like to couple it finally with Mozilla-Songbird, and was wondering if editing the mp3-tags in songbird would result in changings on the vortexbox-storage or not ...
Thanks for considering a response ...