How To: Linux Virtual Machine on your WD Sentinel
DISCLAIMER: The following steps may VOID your WD Warranty and are probably not directly supported by WD.
* upgrading the memory
* installing VMware Player
* hosting Virtual Machines
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Wipe down your WD Sentinel with a nice lent free cloth so that it looks
brand spanking new.
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Upgrade the memory on your Sentinel from 2 GB to 4 GB (WARRANTY VOID STEP) but it can be done
using only 2 GB. It will take a long time to format the vmdk disk though.
Adding RAM on a Sentinel DX4000
http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Sentinel-DX4000/Adding-RAM-on-a-Sentinel-DX4000/td-p/473640
- Remote Desktop into your Sentinel and Share the D drive
We’ll use CIFS to access it through Linux later on.
- Download and install Firefox on your Sentinel (personal preference)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/#desktop
- Download and Install VMWare Player (FREE) on your Sentinel
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/5_0
- Download the CentOS 6.3 32-bit Net Install Image on your Sentinel (or a flavor of Linux of your choice)
Just get the netinstall.iso (for some reason the 64-bit OS could not be installed. I forget the error message.)
Pick your Mirror
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/
Get CentOS-6.3-i386-netinstall.iso
http://centos.hostingxtreme.com/6.3/isos/i386/CentOS-6.3-i386-netinstall.iso
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Open VMware and Click “Create A New Virtual Machine”
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Browse to your “CentOS-6.3-i386-netinstall.iso” and click Next
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Select a Guest Operating System and click Next
Guest Operating System: Linux
Version: Redhat Enterprise Linux 6
DO NOT SELECT “Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit”
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Name your VM and click Next
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Set your Disk Space size and click Next
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Click “Customize Hardware”
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Select “Network Adapter”
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Change the “Network Connection”:
FROM
* NAT: Used to share the host’s IP address
TO
* Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network
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Click “Close” and then “Finish”
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Use this guide for your CentOS 6.3 Netinstall steps
CentOS 6.3 Netinstall Guide – Network Installation Screenshots
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/centos-6-netinstall-network-installation/
When you’re completed, you’ll have a CentOS 6.3 (RHEL6.3) Virtual Machine hosted on your WD Sentinel.
I think VMware Player allows up to 5 VMs in the Library, but you can have many VMs on Disk.
- Get the IP of your Sentinel from the LCD or ipconfig command.
Example: 192.168.5.145
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Login as root on your Linux VM
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Create a mount
mkdir /media/wdsentinel
- CIFS mount your Shared D Volume to Linux
mount -t cifs //192.168.5.145/d /media/wdsentinel -o username=Administrator,password=xxxxxxx
- Access your Sentinel from your Linux VM
[root@mylinuxvm ~]# ls -la /media/wdsentinel/
total 2281181
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4096 Mar 6 08:28 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Mar 6 08:54 …
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 203423744 Mar 1 12:17 CentOS-6.3-i386-netinstall.iso
-rwxr-xr-x. 0 root root 2132471808 Feb 27 03:19 pagefile.sys
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Mar 6 06:36 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4096 Jan 30 14:28 ServerFolders
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 20480 Mar 6 13:00 System Volume Information
ENJOY!
