Aerospike and Node.js on windows VM

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Hi,

I’m on windows so I’ve got my Virtual Box with Centos and Aerospike all running nicely. I can’t run node from windows though due to the aerospike node.js module dependency. I’ll therefore need to switch my node development to Centos but as a windows person my knowledge here on linux setup is poor. Centos has no GUI as provided so I tried this - http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/01/installing-gnome-gui-centos-6-5/ I got stuck at step 2 as the file is readonly though…

Could any linux experts point me in the right direction please ? :smile:

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hi,

Are you trying to edit the file as root ? /etc/inittab can only be edited by root user (or as a user with sudo capabilities).

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Ah yes. Silly me. I’ve got the file edited now and saved.

(for any windows readers a ‘sudo’ prefix is required to act as root and ‘:wq’ saves the file).

‘sudo init 6’ was used to reboot the machine. (I’m not convinced it actually did). I rebooted via Virtualbox anyway and have confirmed the file is correctly saved but still no GUI.

Would it be possible to add a Vagrant box with a GUI, node and aerospike for windows users to use. I’m going no where with this at the moment … :frowning:

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Hi,

I’ll look into this and see what I can do.

Jerry

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Are you currently running Aerospike on Vagrant as described here:

http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/vagrant/win/

or do you use a fresh image on virtual box?

For a fresh image on virtual box, you can download the desktop iso for either Ubuntu or Centos and install Aerospike following one of these links.

http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/ubuntu/

or

http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/linux/el6/

–Lucien