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Post by Arctra on Feb 9, 2007 18:23:20 GMT 7
Someone else asked a question about a testing environment for modules and the answer on that was that you have to just test on ur live N5200.
That got me thinking tho and because the N5200 is so similar to a PC it should be possible to set up a Virtual N5200 VMware machine. The people can download the free VMware player and test to their hearts content.
I took a look at the firmware file in the hopes that I could just unpack it and copy the files across to the virtual filesystem, but alas, it was not to be. Does anyone out there know how I might be able to get the firmware onto a virtual machine (as I have access to VMware Server) so that I can share it with the community as an "appliance" as VMware call it?
Thecus, if you're out there listening, any chance you can help out there?
Cheers.
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Post by quick on Feb 9, 2007 22:20:54 GMT 7
Hi... I think the most challenging about using vmware for a test-setup is the mapping of physical hardware into virtual hardware. Various vmware-products take a physical disk and maps that into a virtual disk for their VM. This virtual disk requires a special driver in the VM to "run" the disk. If this driver is different from what thecus is using in their firmware, then you cant use the firmware directly on top a VM. The same goes for the nettwork-interfaces and possible other hardware (flashrom.....  ). To make this work the thecus firmware has to be modified to match the virtual hardware that a virtualization-product like vmware is presenting to their guest-os. Then it would be possible to use something like vmware to test a module. But it cant be used to test the thecus hardware itself I think. ....I think.... |
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Post by drewpuppy on Feb 10, 2007 1:01:27 GMT 7
Having thought more about this I suspect that emulating a 5200 would be too much like hard work. I think module testing would generally have to have it's own custom VM. For example, I run Parallels on my iMac and I have a template VM which contains a very minimal Fedora Core 6 installation. For my Subversion module testing I'll create a copy of this and: - install Apache 2.0.54 to /opt as on the 5200
- set /etc/httpd as on the 5200
- create a /raid/data/module/SVN file tree
I reckon that's about the nearest I'll get. And it'll probably be good enough. Andrew. |
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Post by omega on Feb 10, 2007 2:14:39 GMT 7
Andrew, is it really important to have SVN access through the apache WebDAV protocol? What do you think about using the plain SVN server (maybe as another alternative)? Then first of all we are not dependent on apache and all that stuff... I've managed to compile subversion on SuSE 10.0 which is my development platform for the N5200 (of course in a vmware virtual machine  ). Andreas |
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Post by drewpuppy on Feb 10, 2007 6:15:32 GMT 7
I guess I'm so used to it now. I use my various SVN repositories away from home as well and it's very convenient to be able to get at them using SSL via web proxies when stuck behind a corporate firewall. I host SVN on my main server which is just fine except that it only runs a simple two drive RAID and the drives aren't that big. Using Berkley DB over CIFS to a file server doesn't work either.
I'm rambling a bit... it's difficult to know where to draw the line sometimes. It might be best to have both options. I'm still getting familiar with the 5200 so I'll leave it open for now.
Andrew.
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Post by zioalex on Aug 10, 2011 6:56:22 GMT 7
Hi guys
Any news about this argument?
I'm facing the question in this days ...
I thought to create a KVM machine with gentoo and the same libs version of my N5200 to make easy the process of custom software installation...
But if is there an already FW image...Better :-)
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