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Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Here's the story so far...
I was using Lubuntu as the Host for my Virtual Machine which, initially, was fine... until I walked away from it for Lunch.
When I returned, the VM was so slow, it was practically frozen! Jerky and Arthritic at best.
I discovered, quite incidentally, that it was SystemD impeding the stable operation of the VM.
This was when I discovered antiX. It solved All my problems with my VM!
Until I wanted to connect a Bluetooth Mini Keyboard.
antiX had too many dependency conflicts to even install Blueman!
So... my search was afoot once again.
Then I turned my gaze toward Optimal Operational Speed and came across Artix-LXQt-S6.
This where things took a real turn for the worse.
After installing it to replace antiX, I had to do some Googling to even get it to boot up. Turns out it is an XFS problem which was easily remedied by creating an additional /boot partition that was EXT4. Got it to boot up. Installed Blueman and no luck. Turns out it just needed a Full System Update and Blueman-manager was working... but Not finding my Mini Keyboard among all the other devices it was finding. Oh, well...
So I then turn my gaze toward the VM to find out if I could install it and get it running again.
My mind was put at total ease regarding it running smoothly as it was now completely GONE never to be a bother again!
That's right. ArtiX took the Google approach and decided it knew better than I did as to what I needed ArtiX for. So, it decided to format the partition with ALL of my VM files on it. WHAT A RELIEF! Now I DON'T  have to deal with any VM performance issues at all! It was like achieving World Peace by getting Rid of all those annoying, pesky little people! ...except that I use my VM to make a living... so, there's that!
Despite what ArtiX thought I intended to use it for, I was quite very deliberate and specific about KEEPING my VM Partition and Not formatting over it, intending to mount it to /home/VM/. Well, apparently, That Plan wasn't good enough for ArtiX, No, Sir!

Luckily... I did take a fairly recent Backup of the VM and can resume close to where I left off...
IT'S JUST AN UNNECESSARY WASTE OF TIME THAT I HAD PREPARED TO AVOID!

And that's my ArtiX journey. Not off to a very good start.

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #1 –
I've got my money on user error.

But well done for keeping backups.

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #2 –
It's probably too late and perhaps not even worth the effort if you have a recent backup, but for future reference, take a look at testdisk / photorec. If something is deleted or re-formatted it doesn't touch the actual data on the drive, it only wipes the "contents page" so you can usually get it all back, or at least the important bits. As soon as you start using the partition again you write over the existing unmapped data though. I've never had Artix reformat itself, I should add.  ;D

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #3 –
How does one earn a living through a vm anyway?

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Section 31 – on
Then I turned my gaze toward Optimal Operational Speed and came across Artix-LXQt-S6.

IT'S JUST AN UNNECESSARY WASTE OF TIME THAT I HAD PREPARED TO AVOID!

  ;D  
"Wer alles kann, macht nichts richtig"

Artix USE="runit openrc slim openbox lxde gtk2 qt4 qt5 qt6 conky
-gtk3 -gtk4 -adwaita{cursors,themes,icons} -gnome3 -kde -plasma -wayland "

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Wolzly – on
How does one earn a living through a vm anyway?

Because I'm using the VM to load Mac OS X where all of my work profiles reside.

Quote from: gripped – on
I've got my money on user error.

But well done for keeping backups.

It could have been an oversight, but I've reinstalled antiX a few times and Never lost my Entire partition!
And because I depend on the VM for work, I triple-check Every partition action!
Hence, the regular backups.
The impromptu formatting of the partition was unexpected!

My solution to avoid losing data again, as I am new to ArtiX and trying s6 vs openRC, etc, was to tell the installer Not to do Anything with the partition and set it up in fstab post-install.
Danger Averted, Will Robinson!

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #6 –
I was going to abandon ArtiX for vmPlayer 17.5, but I just couldn't get my mind off just how Fast s6 is.
It keeps pulling me back in.
However, where I'm stook right now is trying to get those damn Modules compiled!
I know how to use
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sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
but it's SystemD-centric... dammit.
Somehow, antiX is able to fool it and it worked fine, but antiX has several annoying quirks about it.
I'm digging in to how to manually compile the vmmon and vmnet modules... hopefully not on the regular basis I had to on antiX.

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

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 :o  I Honestly do not believe it!
My perseverance has Paid Off in Spades!
At least thus far...
Time to make a Full System Backup!
I have an Operational vmPlayer!
After having donned my Fedora and Satchel, packed my Whip and my Revolver, I started excavating deep within the wilds of the Internet...
Wandering the thick of the data, seeking the elusive vmware-modconfig code for ArtiX, I heard a rumor of something called  a Manjaro.
As I pursued this elusive clue deeper into the thick, I found it, buried in a cave... the Wholly Code! It reads thusly...

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sudo pacman -Sy; sudo pacman -R cron kwrite mpv; sudo pacman -Sy git fuse2 gtkmm linux-headers pcsclite libcanberra blueman gnome-disk-utility; git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git; cd yay-bin; makepkg -si; yay -S --noconfirm --needed ncurses5-compat-libs vmware-workstation; sudo VMplayer\ Unlocker/linux/unlock; sudo pacman -Sc

And now, I have the VM.vmx loaded into the vmPlayer 17.5 Manager. I'll try starting it and report back on how it goes...

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 >:(  The Journey's End
There And Back Again
by Baggar "Bilbo" Vance

When I emerged from the dark of the cave back into what seemed blinding light, I was disoriented and felt I had lost my way,
ending up back where I had started my journey into the wild. The vmware Modules were still not loading!
As I made my way back out of thick of the data, I stumbled upon a line of code that seemed to be the final missing link!

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git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/; cd vmware-host-modules; git checkout workstation-17.5.0; sudo make; sudo make install

My eyes widened in astonishment as the code filled the screen... it was working... it was Working!
No Error Messages! This had to be it!
I started the Virtual Machine once more and...

vmware modules directory not found. The modules weren't there.

Tired and Exhausted, I made my way back to civilization, embarrased to tell the tale of my Pointless adventure...

I am resigned to the now, seemingly, unbelievable luck I had in finding antiX the first time, right out of the gate.

Good Night and Good Luck to you all.


|  Father McKenzie

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #9 –
As it happens,

antiX was more successful at running vmware VMplayer
because it uses the SysV init system.

That's how it was fooling vmware into working.

That's why ArtiX is useless to me.


|  Message In A Bottle

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #10 –
Quote from: Section 31 – on
As it happens,

antiX was more successful at running vmware VMplayer
because it uses the SysV init system.

That's how it was fooling vmware into working.

That's why ArtiX is useless to me.


|  Message In A Bottle
If can be done on antix it can be done on artix.

Useless to YOU because you don't know how and rather than coherently asking for help you preferred to babble and seek out random github sources that haven't been updated in years.

But thanks for coming back to let us know. :)

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

Reply #11 –
Please, don't stylize Artix as artiX, antiX or anything with a capital X. Thanks.

Re: Wiped Out My Virtual Machine

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Quote
If can be done on antiX it can be done on artix.

Useless to YOU because you don't know how and rather than coherently asking for help you preferred to babble and seek out random github sources that haven't been updated in years.

But thanks for coming back to let us know. :)

At my age, I'd prefer to use something that works rather than spend countless hours and Failed attempts to try to force something to work that clearly was not intended to.

I'd rather be using my VM!

That being said, today may be a wonderful day to spend the night experimenting...
Then again... I just got paid, so... maybe not...?

How about that for some coherent babbling?


| The Babbling Bard

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Reply #13 –
Quote from: Section 31
try to force something to work that clearly was not intended to.

It was cute for a while but now increasingly looks like trolling. I usually wouldn't mind at all but it this keeps popping in my RSS feed, both passive and aggressive at the same time...