VmWare trixbox - VoIP-Info

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:

A sandbox to play in before puting stuff in production
A fallback system in the production gets broken
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:

Download the player, install, reboot
Download the vmware image, unzip.
Start the VMware player and select the image.
Log into the root, pw=password
Disable the firewall on the host os — Not sure, but think this is because my firewall doesn’t support gateway mode.
trixbox-update.sh
trixbox-update.sh update
reboot
reboot — a second time seems to sort out the broken ethernet card
yum -y groupinstall “GNOME Desktop Environment”
Xorg -configure — this seems to blackout my console, but the macine is still running, so carry on with…
reboot — … to sort that out
edit xorg.conf.new, find /dev/mouse and replace it with /dev/input/mouse0
cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
vmware-config-tools.pl — and select your host screen resolution
startx — should start gnome
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/

Get freenx, the remote x-window manager: yum install freenx
Get the nx client for Windows from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
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
Anything else you need can now be installed (gnucash in my case, but that’s outside the scope of this entry)

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