{"id":1923,"date":"2014-02-18T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:37:51","slug":"vmware-workstation-10-and-steamos-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"VMWare Workstation 10 and SteamOS Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"steamosbeta\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Installing SteamOS natively was a real pain in the rear during the alpha.\u00a0 You had to do a lot of fiddling to get it working, and it didn’t have very good hardware support.\u00a0 The most successful virtual-machine installs were on VirtualBox at the time.\u00a0 I managed to get that working but it required a lot of linux\/unix experience.\u00a0 Far beyond what most people would want.<\/p>\n

Valve, however, just released SteamOS Beta<\/a> last month.\u00a0 I downloaded a copy and it’s much, MUCH easier to install.\u00a0 That, and it seems to install ok in VMware (which has much better hardware support than VirtualBox).<\/p>\n

There’s still some gotcha’s.\u00a0 Upon trying to run Left4Dead2, I get errors about unsupported OpenGL extensions, but I am using VMware’s hardware drivers.\u00a0 I still have some experimenting to do – maybe I can get it working properly.\u00a0 But the BigPicture and all the other experience is there.<\/p>\n

Here is the procedure (wrote this up around midnight – so forgive the typos.\u00a0 I’ll clean it up later):<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the SteamOS Beta iso <\/a>from this link.\u00a0 Valve has done a nice job here in already packaging it as a bootable iso file.\u00a0 So no more needing to use 3rd party tools to create bootable iso files or boot off usb sticks after writing them via special programs.<\/li>\n
  2. Set up your VMware system using the following settings:\n
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    1. Custom (advanced) setup<\/li>\n
    2. Hardware compatibility: Workstation 10.0<\/li>\n
    3. Select a guest operating system: Debian 7 64-bit<\/li>\n
    4. Processors: 2 processors, 2 cores per processor (4 total)<\/li>\n
    5. Memory: 4096MB<\/li>\n
    6. Hard drive 500MB (40MB minimal)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    7. Save your settings and close the VMware application.<\/li>\n
    8. Go to the file location where you created the virtual machine in Step 2<\/li>\n
    9. Open the .VMX file associated with it and add this line to the end:
      \nfirmware = \"efi\"<\/code><\/li>\n
    10. Start VMware Workstation back up.<\/li>\n
    11. Set the virtual machine’s cdrom drive to point to the iso you downloaded in step 1.<\/li>\n
    12. Start up the virtual machine and you should get the steam installer started<\/li>\n
    13. Follow the procedure for the install as normal.\u00a0 Nothing special needed.\u00a0 It will reboot when finished.<\/li>\n
    14. Here’s where things might diverge.\u00a0 If you have an nVidia card, odds are good you won’t have issues, but for those with ATI cards, you might.<\/li>\n
    15. Upon reboot after install, I got a delay then Debian started up in fallback mode.<\/li>\n
    16. Either way, complete the steam install by agreeing to the licensing terms.<\/li>\n
    17. You’ll see the steam platform update itself.\u00a0 Log into Steam using your Steam account.<\/li>\n
    18. You should have a steam client up after logging in.<\/li>\n
    19. For those with ATI cards or the dreaded blank screens after reboot, do this step to install VMware tools BEFORE rebooting.\n
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      1. Open a terminal prompt.<\/li>\n
      2. Click on the ‘Install VMware tools’ option on the bottom of the VMware window, or select VM->Install VMware Tools option from the top menu.<\/li>\n
      3. On the desktop, open the CD-ROM drive that appears and copy the VMwareTools-x.x.x-xxxxxxxx.tar.gz (x’s will be the latest version number).<\/li>\n
      4. copy the tarball to \/tmp via:
        \ncp VMWareTools-x.x.x.xxxxx.tar.gz \/tmp<\/code><\/li>\n
      5. log in as the ‘desktop’ user. SteamOS has two accounts: ‘steam’ and ‘desktop’. You need to be ‘desktop’ to issue any sudo commands.
        \nsu - desktop<\/code><\/li>\n
      6. The default password for the ‘desktop’ user is ‘desktop’.\u00a0 You need to be logged in as desktop to have su privileges.<\/li>\n
      7. cd \/tmp<\/code><\/li>\n
      8. gunzip VMWareTools-x.x.x.xxxxx.tar.gz <\/code><\/li>\n
      9. tar -xvf VMWareTools-x.x.x.xxxxx.tar<\/code><\/li>\n
      10. cd VMWareTools-x.x.x.xxxxx.tar (correction:\u00a0cd vmware-tools-distrib)<\/code><\/li>\n
      11. sudo .\/vmware-install.pl -default<\/code><\/li>\n
      12. Answer yes to the prompt and VMware tools will install.<\/li>\n
      13. When it’s complete, reboot:
        \nsudo reboot<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      14. When your system reboots, you should be in SteamOS big-picture mode!\u00a0 Log in and enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Helpful links:<\/strong>
        \nInitial setup instructions for VMware with pictures
        \n        http:\/\/www.vmwareandme.com\/2014\/01\/guide-installing-steamos-on-vmware.html#.UwMJVIW0x1G<\/a><\/p>\n

        VMware tools
        \n        http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rUK7Ycy2kzo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Installing SteamOS natively was a real pain in the rear during the alpha.\u00a0 You had to do a lot of fiddling to get it working, and it didn’t have very good hardware support.\u00a0 The most successful virtual-machine installs were on VirtualBox at the time.\u00a0 I managed to get that working but it required a lot of linux\/unix experience.\u00a0 Far beyond what most people would want. Valve, however, just released SteamOS Beta last month.\u00a0 I downloaded a copy and it’s much,…<\/p>\n

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