ZoneMinder Virtual Appliance

[vpetersson]

Hi,

I just wanted to announce that I've created a virtual appliance for ZoneMinder 1.24.1. I'm currently using it myself in production, and it works great. I don't think you're able to use it with V4L devices (without a ffserver-setup), but it works great for IP Cameras (such as Axis).

The Virtual Machine (VM) was created with VMware Server 2.0 and works on Windows and Linux (probably also Mac with Fusion). All you need to do is to download and boot up the VM and your up running with ZoneMinder.

You can download the appliance from here: http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page= ... 7d2bb96594.

The VM is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, with the bare minimal requirements installed (LAMP+ZoneMinder requirements).

Enjoy!

[coke]

Now that's what I've been wanting some one to post. Thanks! I have the time to play a VM, haven't had the time to try a compile / etc.

[cordel]

Awesome contribution

Thank You

[vpetersson]

Thanks guys. If you have any feedback, please let me know.

I also just got a note from VMware. The VM passed their tests and is now available in their Virtual Appliance Marketplace: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/86653

[zoneminder]

Excellent. Thanks very much for this. I have added a note and a link to the Downloads page.

[fc]

Thanks guys. If you have any feedback, please let me know.

I also just got a note from VMware. The VM passed their tests and is now available in their Virtual Appliance Marketplace: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/86653

what is the root password ???

when i do "su -" or "sudo vi" it asks for a password.. none of the passwords in read-me work..

thanks.

[Voltage54]

which readme are you refering to?

Do the following work:

== System user(s) ==
username=zmadmin
password= zmrandompwd

== MySQL user(s) ==
username= zm
password = zones506_fiche

username = root
password = rotes0)gangrenes

[vpetersson]

Thanks guys. If you have any feedback, please let me know.

I also just got a note from VMware. The VM passed their tests and is now available in their Virtual Appliance Marketplace: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/86653

what is the root password ???

when i do "su -" or "sudo vi" it asks for a password.. none of the passwords in read-me work..

thanks.

By default, there is no 'root' password set in Ubuntu. However, if you log in as 'zmadmin' you should be able to either sudo to root (sudo su - root), or execute root commands with sudo 'sudo command'.

[coke]

For those of us (like myself) that think VMWare 2 is extremely annoying compared to VMWare 1, there's a way to downconvert the image to work in 1. (At least 1.0.8, that's what I'm running.)


Edit the hard drive as follows. Alternately do the same with a hex editor, but my attempts on that front didn't work out so well, but this did.

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 dd "if=Zoneminder.vmdk" | sed "/virtualHWVersion = \"7\"/s//virtualHWVersion = \"4\"/" > Zoneminder2

Now edit the Zoneminder.vmx file (it's small, use whatever editor you like), and change "virtualHW.version = "8" to "4".

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Meanwhile, am I the only one having problems getting a network interface other than l0 to work? I tried it on a VMWare Server 2 machine and failed, decided it was yet another reason I hated vmware 2, but I'm having the same issue on 1.0.8.

Edit: Solved that problem by following this post http://www.ericmmartin.com/running-ubun ... re-player/

[zimmer62]

Just wanted to say that I tested this using KVM instead of vmware

Assuming you have KVM installed and working just fine.

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sudo apt-get install virt-goodies
sudo vmware2libvirt -f ./Zoneminder.vmx > ZoneMinder.xml

I modified my ZoneMinder.xml, I change <name>, and changed the network to a bridge.

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sudo virsh define ZoneMinder.xml