Steve Jobs has the last laugh...or maybe Bill does...I guess it's all based on perspective.

Steve Jobs has the last laugh...or maybe Bill does...I guess it's all based on perspective.

This is an adventure in converting a dd raw disk image to a vmdk image suitable for vmware on Mac OSX.  Amazingly annoying so I documented it to save you the trouble.  Of course these instructions are valid for as long as all the software used stays the same.  Good Luck!

install Apples Xcode developers tools from the App Store

install macports from here:

http://www.macports.org/

This is the version I used:

MacPorts-2.3.4-10.11-ElCapitan.pkg

Then confirm it wall worked:

sudo port version

Update it, not sure what this does but you need to do it (uses internet):

sudo port selfupdate

Now install the Xcode command line tools (assuming you already installed Xcode)

sudo xcode-select --install

Now install qemu:

sudo port install emu

--->  Computing dependencies for qemu blah blah blah....

Then all the sudden I get this:

So naturally I click OK and allow massive amounts of additional code to be installed blindly on my computer...all provably secure and safe!

I also installed this

jdk-8u71-macosx-x64.dmg

It will fetch a bunch of junk and finally get it all installed.  It probably installed a bunch of rootkits and implants along the way so my computer is probably totally owned now but hey computers are disposable now right?

BTW...as the first macport I installed this process took close to 45 minutes...most of it waiting for downloads of dozens of libraries.  To be specific these are the debs:

zip2

curl

curl-ca-bundle

expat

gdbm

gettext

glib2

gperf

help2man

libedit

libffi

libiconv

libpixman

libtool

ncurses

openssl

p5.22-locale-gettext

pcre

perl5

perl5.22

pkgconfig

python27

python_select

sqlite3

texinfo

xz

zlib

So now qemu is installed and I can now convert a raw dd disk image to a vmdk

qemu-img convert -O vodka original-disk.dd converted.vmd

/var/db/vmware/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.leases

/var/db/vmware/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.leases

These files contain current leases issued by the built in vmware DHCP server...helpful in finding the IP of a box you can't login to.

Notes from my OpenIndiana file server experiment with ZFS 

zpool create -f data-pool raidz c4t1d0 c4t2d0 c4t3d0 c4t4d0 usermod -G 

zfs set sharesmb=on 

cat /etc/dfs/sharetab 

smbadm join -w passwd 

smbadm list 

idmap remove -a 

So far so good with 4 1TB WD Blue disks (Although RHEL 6 smbclient has some serious issues with OpenIndiana SMB impl..hint hint) 

NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT 

data-pool 11.0M 2.59T 10.4M /data-pool 

rpool 21.7G 892G 196K /rpool 

rpool/ROOT 5.15G 892G 144K legacy 

rpool/ROOT/openindiana 668K 892G 3.79G / 

rpool/ROOT/openindiana-1 5.14G 892G 3.73G / 

rpool/dump 8.00G 892G 8.00G - rpool/export 1.72M 892G 152K /export rpool/export/home 1.57M 892G 152K /export/home 

rpool/swap 8.50G 900G 136M -

Wonder how the 6 million dollar man would fare today.

Why do I still have to do this stuff when CentOS decides I need a kernel update?

#!/bin/sh
service vmware stop
rm /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/vmmon.ko
vmware-modconfig --console --build-mod vmmon /usr/bin/gcc /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include
depmod -a
service vmware start

Fix database errors in OpenPBX

 mysqlcheck -u root --check asteriskcdrdb
mysql -b -u root -D asteriskcdrdb -e "REPAIR TABLE cdr" -u root

service mysqld restart