I am running VM Workstation 7.1 Under Windows 7 Ultimate. I noticed Quickstart references using VirtualBox. Can I simply use VM Worksation instead of VirtualBox or do I have to do something different? I have minimal experience in any of these technologies so a detailed answer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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MichaelCole commented
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Hi BG1,

I haven't used VMWare so don't have an answer to your request.

I recommend you try it for yourself :-)

If you get it to work with VMWare, and want to write up instructions on how to do so, that would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,

Mike

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bg1 commented

Thanks for the response.

I was told the following "Quickstart is a Virtualbox appliance--you load it into Virtualbox on your machine and get a virtual development environment, completely deployed."

Is that like just copying a virtual machine image or is it running scripts that do the install - just in a virtual machine?

In order for me to install on VMWare, I would have to be doing an actual install in the virtual machine.

What is the defference between Quickstart and drubuntu? Is it in the concept of using scripts to do the install or is it simply the selection of what is getting installed?

Thanks.

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MichaelCole commented

Hi bg1,

You may find the Youtube videos I put together interesting as they cover an overview, installation, and other topics.

I don't have any experience with VMWare or with Drubuntu. I looked at Drubuntu and saw it wasn't using virtual machines so skipped it. Check it out, you might like it.

You'll have to do your own research to answer your questions, in a way that's specific to your situation.

Thanks,

Mike

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pau1_m commented

As far as I'm aware, Quickstart comes in VMWare format (the file type is .vmdk).

To run this in VirtualBox you first have to import it, which involves converting from VMWare to the native to .vdi VirtualBox format. Since .vmdk is a popular format, I imagine any virtualization platform is going to be able to handle it.

I'm currently using it on VMWare Fusion and see no reason why it shouldn't work straight out of the box on Workstation.

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MichaelCole commented

Hello pau1_m,

You are incorrect. Quickstart was created in Virtualbox OSE 3.2.8.

Please refer to the Quickstart project page for installation instructions, or see the YouTube video.

Mike

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bg1 commented

In the end I decided to just install VirtualBox. It was super simple. Thanks for this tool.

Two questions (I am a long time developer but a total Newbie to Ubuntu and PHP):

  1. Is there any tutorial or video that describes how to use the development setup provided by Quickstart? In other words, how does one open or start a module in Eclipse or Netbeans (and is there a reason both are in quickstart environment or are you simply trying to cater to both communities)?
  2. Is there any tutorial or video that describes how to migrate the site developed in Quickstart to production?

Thanks.

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Sean Buscay commented

Hi all.

I use quickstart with VMWare with no problems.

I do build my instances though using the quickstart shell scripts.

In the older versions of quickstart there was a small section which optimized some settings specific to Virtualbox. I don't know if it's in .9 as I have not ran it yet. These were just ignored (failed silently) during setup.

I really like VirtualBox but found I like a few features in VMWare a little more. The good news is quickstart works great in both. BTW there is a version of VMware which users can run pre-built vms free. So I still can pass out VMs freely to my devs with quickstart on them.

Best regards,
Sean

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jason.fisher commented

OVA is a rather unfriendly image format .. would be nice to see one of the qemu-img supported formats, for easy conversion.

Supported formats: tftp ftps ftp https http host_device file sheepdog blkdebug nbd parallels qcow2 vvfat vpc bochs dmg cloop vmdk vdi qcow cow raw

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dannymontalvo commented
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Hello Sean,

Do you test with vmware on linux or windows?, now i having problems mounting the vmdk file on a windows vmware installation, i can't mount the virtual disk succesfully.

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Sean Buscay commented

Hi dannymontalvo.

I use VMware on windows 7. But I build the Ubuntu image first using VMware's wizard, then I run Quickstart scripts to setup my Quickstart environment.

You can see Michael's directions here: http://drupal.org/node/788994

Also in this comment I make a note about changes you can make to the script:

http://drupal.org/node/1140878#comment-4432916

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fuerst commented

Quickstart-1.0-amd64.ova is a TAR archive containing an .ovf file (Open Virtualization Format) and the hard disk container in .vmdk format. You simply need to untar that file and import the .ovf file into VMware Workstation.

VMware Fusion (Mac) unfortunately does not support .ovf files. You need to convert it into .vmx/.vmdk file which can be used in VMware Fusion. Use the ovftool for conversion. On the Mac it get installed into /Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool. I had to use the ofvtool option --lax to change errors about unsupported hardware into warnings.