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Installing Censornet from the disk iso into a virutal machine

July 15, 2011 • Customer Services       

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Please ensure that the VM has access to the internet or the install will fail.

1. Download latest ISO

2. Create new VM with 2048MB RAM and 32GB HDD, dual (or more) processors, 1 NIC, and install censornet from the iso.

3. Create new root password. The networking should have been set up during the install process.

4. Run the system upgrade

5. Reboot (type: reboot at the command prompt)

6. As root, run apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)

7. As root, run apt-get clean

Now you need to reboot!

8. Install vmware tools - extract the archive into /tmp thus:

Click on the Install VMware Tools in the VM tab of the vm console

mount /cdrom

cd /tmp

tar -zxvf /cdrom/VMwareTools-3.5.0-110271.tar.gz (or whichever version it is)

cd vmware-tools-distrib

./vmware-install.pl

And follow the onscreen instructions.

Now reboot to make sure they load correctly into the kernel at boot.

9. Make sure you only have the latest kernel image installed, so do a:

ls /lib/modules

...you might see more than one version installed, e.g.:

2.6.24-23-server  2.6.24-24-server

So, we can remove the older one (2.6.24-23-server) like so....

apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-23-server

apt-get remove linux-headers-2.6.24-23-server

apt-get clean

Now reboot again, and ensure everything loads ok.

That should be the virtual machine ready to go.

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