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VmWare trixbox

Created by: IanWorthington,Last modification on Fri 18 of Jan, 2008 [09:15 UTC] by jq53333
A VMware version of trixbox is available linked from http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/06/new-asteriskhome-trixbox-10-virtual.html

The player can be found at http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

Our objective here is to create a trixbox system that can be used as:

  1. A sandbox to play in before puting stuff in production
  2. A fallback system in the production gets broken
  3. A general linux system to look at other linux apps of interest here, in particular gnucash, which requires the installation of gnome

This later is not generally advisable on a pbx system, so caveat emptor.

This page logs what I've done to turn trixbox into a general linus system, accessible from the LAN:

  1. Download the player, install, reboot
  2. Download the vmware image, unzip.
  3. Start the VMware player and select the image.
  4. Log into the root, pw=password
  5. Disable the firewall on the host os — Not sure, but think this is because my firewall doesn't support gateway mode.
  6. trixbox-update.sh
  7. trixbox-update.sh update
  8. reboot
  9. reboot — a second time seems to sort out the broken ethernet card
  10. yum -y groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
  11. Xorg -configure — this seems to blackout my console, but the macine is still running, so carry on with...
  12. reboot — ... to sort that out
  13. edit xorg.conf.new, find /dev/mouse and replace it with /dev/input/mouse0
  14. cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  15. vmware-config-tools.pl — and select your host screen resolution
  16. startx — should start gnome
  17. Many packages are not available from the default respositories so, under /etc/yum.repos.d create a file karan.repo with the following contents:

kbs-CentOS-Extras
name=CentOS.Karan.Org-EL$releasever - Stable
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://centos.karan.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-karan.org.txt
enabled=1
baseurl=http://centos.karan.org/el$releasever/extras/stable/$basearch/RPMS/
# Need a ftp mirror ?  uncomment the line below, & disable the one above
# baseurl=ftp://rpm.karan.org/pub/kbsingh/el$releasever/extras/stable/$basearch/RPMS/


kbs-CentOS-Misc
name=CentOS.Karan.Org-EL$releasever - Stable
gpgkey=http://centos.karan.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-karan.org.txt
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
baseurl=http://centos.karan.org/el$releasever/misc/stable/$basearch/RPMS/
# Need a ftp mirror ? Uncomment the line below and comment the line above
# baseurl=ftp://rpm.karan.org/pub/kbsingh/el$releasever/misc/stable/$basearch/RPMS/

kbs-CentOS-Misc-Testing
name=CentOS.Karan.Org-EL$releasever - Testing
gpgkey=http://centos.karan.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-karan.org.txt
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
baseurl=http://centos.karan.org/el$releasever/misc/testing/i386/RPMS/
# Ned a ftp mirror ? Uncomment the line below and comment the line above
# baseurl=ftp://rpm.karan.org/pub/kbsingh/el$releasever/misc/testing/$basearch/RPMS/

  1. Get freenx, the remote x-window manager: yum install freenx
  2. Get the nx client for Windows from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
  3. Install and configure it as per http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ — I had terrible problems getting this working for no obvious reason: it all sudenly started working
  4. Anything else you need can now be installed (gnucash in my case, but that's outside the scope of this entry)


See also:

  • Choppy IVR sounds problem solved on asterisk 1.4.17 on VmWare server 1.4 (a la trixbox) with HP Pavilion a1450n computer (nvidia chip set)

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333How do I log in?

by smolaw, Tuesday 15 of April, 2008 [21:08:32 UTC]
I installed the vmware version of Trixbox CE. I am now looking at a login prompt that looks something like this:
trixbox1 login:


I have tried typing things like "admin" etc. and using "password" as the password. Nothing works.


This should be simple, right? What is the default login and password?

Thanks!

UPDATE:

Ok I was able to log in at the command line using:
root/trixbox.

It then provided me with the IP address for accessing the web based GUI control panel. Now I have this problem:

When I try to change from "user" to administrator, it requests another username and password. What are the defaults?

TIA


UPDATE:

Ok now I see that I set the password by entering the command passwd-maint into the command interface. I then log in using "maint" as the user name and my new password that I just set.


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333Re: Trixbox & VMWARE !FIXED!

by smolaw, Tuesday 15 of April, 2008 [20:47:08 UTC]
This is an interesting post. I am very interested in a product like this, but I am reluctant to purchase this particular one because it appears to be geared for the UK market. Is there anything similar, particularly a product that has worked out the vmware kinks the way these chaps claim to have done, for U.S. users?

Thx!
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333Trixbox & VMWARE !FIXED!

by qual1t, Monday 14 of April, 2008 [12:32:55 UTC]
A self contained DVD disk with an automated setup wizard that will have a VMWare Trixbox PBX setup and registered with
a SIP provider in less than half an hour - with NO choppy IVR or timing issues can be got from these nice chaps here

http://www.qualit-uk.com/trixbox-asterisk-vmware.htm

Save yourself the 3 months work it took us to make the whole thing operate seamlessly!
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333@ KAMAL (NAT BRIDGED, ETC.)

by tzury, Tuesday 22 of January, 2008 [21:46:41 UTC]
You may want to look at this article which describes the meanings of each term. see @ http://www.vmweekly.com/articles/networking_in_VMware/1/
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by rdwild, Wednesday 14 of November, 2007 [02:46:04 UTC]
Try the following, worked for me:

Users and Passwords (for to you to change):
Linux Root User: root password is safe4u
Linux Admin User: admin password is safe4u
VHCS Admin User: admin password is safe4u
MySQL Root User: root password is safe4u

Rod
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333Re: trixbox pass

by samhsma, Sunday 17 of June, 2007 [03:27:58 UTC]
Hi Jose Carvalho,

Are you using VMWare Trixbox2.2?
If yes, pls try this
login: root
password: trixbox

Nice to share with you
Sam
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333trixbox pass

by jcarvalho, Wednesday 13 of June, 2007 [11:40:55 UTC]
hi,

I have downloaded the VMWare version of trixbox, in http://www.trixbox.org/downloads, and when the OS is booted appears the login screen like this:

asterisk1 login:

I put any combinations login options, like:

login :root
pass: password

login :root
pass: passw0rd (that's a zero 0)

login :root
pass: passwd

login :root
pass: vmwarez

login :maint
pass: vmwarez

login :maint
pass: password

login :maint
pass: passw0rd (that's a zero 0)

login :maint
pass: passwd

and nothing, nothing works,

any ideia?

thanx
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by sarabob, Tuesday 28 of November, 2006 [09:47:03 UTC]
Leave the vm set to "bridged", and run dhclient at the command line to re-request dhcp settings. Worked for me :-)
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333I can't access to the internet

by kaikai, Tuesday 12 of September, 2006 [23:20:04 UTC]
My vmware player can't access to the internet;
I cant run the "trixbox-update.sh" then.

I tried to set the ethernet to "nat", "bridged" and "host only", but none of them allowed me run the script