Thought I would provide some notes on setting up a Fedora 9 VMware image on my Mac
laptop using VMWare Fusion 2.0.4.
I used the same steps for both Fedora 9 32bit (i386) and 64bit (x86_64),
however I had some trouble
with installing x86_64, even seemed to trigger a MacOS panic at one point
after doing the yum update, not sure what that was all about, only happened
once. This was strictly a local Fedora install,
so I didn’t need to deal with any of the
networking issues of setting up a real physical machine.

I’ll try and re-create the order of things as best I can:

1. Create VMware Virtual Machine from Fedora 9 install iso image.
   I set it up to have a 20GB disk (You cannot change this disk size afterwards!).
   I’m using 768Mb RAM (512Mb caused slow builds) and during the install I asked for the “Software Development” packages.

2. Update your system and make sure you have all you need. Logged in as root:
   

   yum install kernel kernel-headers kernel-devel
   yum install hg ksh tcsh csh cups cups-devel freetype freetype-devel lesstif-devel
   yum groupinstall "X Software Development" "Development Tools" "Java Development"
   yum update
   

   
   This will take a while. A reboot after you are all done would be a good idea.

3. Install VMware tools. Once you extract out the VMware tools folder
   vmware-tools-distrib, once again logged in as root do the following:
   

   cd vmware-tools-distro
   ./vmware-install.pl
   

   
   The list of questions to answer is long and convoluted, mostly the default answer
   works fine, but in some cases it seems to think you are using a remote login and
   you have to say “yes” to continue the installation.
   

4. Mouse problems: For some reason all my single clicks were being treated as double clicks, which drove me nuts. I found this
   posting which solved the problem, I use option 2 and edited the
   file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added the following lines, logged in as root:
   

   Section "ServerFlags"
           Option      "AutoAddDevices" "false"
   EndSection
   

   
   A reboot of your virtual machine is necessary to fix this.

5. The default limit on file descriptors is very low, to allow for a larger limit
   the following addition to the file /etc/security/limits.conf
   will increase that limit, again logged in as root:
   

   ################################################
   * soft nofile 64000
   * hard nofile 64000
   ################################################
   

   
   You need to logout and back in for these new limits to be available.

6. Recently it was discovered that the upgraded kernel-headers package has trimmed
   down the files it delivers to /usr/include/linux/ (i.e. dirent.h)
   and although this doesn’t impact OpenJDK building, it could impact builds of
   parts of the Sun JDK (plugin).
   So to avoid this missing include file problem, you have to do this last step
   because the above steps need the latest and matching kernel-headers files.
   To get the older kernel-headers package run:
   

   yum remove kernel-headers glibc-headers
   yum install kernel-headers-2.6.25 glibc-headers
   

   
   Bugs have been filed on the Sun JDK to see if we can break this dependency
   on the /usr/include/linux/ files.

That’s the basic system setup. In addition I also setup my own home directory
with the following so I can build the OpenJDK:

1. Get webrev tool:
   

   mkdir -p ${HOME}/bin
   cd ${HOME}/bin
   wget http://blogs.sun.com/jcc/resource/webrev
   chmod a+x webrev
   

2. Get latest ant:
   

   mkdir -p ${HOME}/import/ant_home
   cd ${HOME}/import/ant_home
   wget http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz
   tar -xzf apache*.tar.gz
   mv apache-ant-1.7.1/* .
   

3. Get forest extension:
   

   mkdir -p ${HOME}/hgrepos
   cd ${HOME}/hgrepos
   hg clone http://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew hgforest
   

4. Setup your ${HOME}/.hgrc file:
   

   cat > ${HOME}/.hgrc <<EOF
   [ui]
   username = ${USER}
   ssh = ssh -C
   [trusted]
   groups = wheel
   [extensions]
   fetch=
   purge=
   mq=
   forest=${HOME}/hgrepos/hgforest/forest.py
   [defaults]
   clone = --pull
   fclone = --pull
   fetch = -m Merge
   ffetch = -m Merge
   EOF
   

5. Get OpenJDK7 sources (jdk7 build source forest):
   

   mkdir -p ${HOME}/hgrepos/jdk7
   cd ${HOME}/hgrepos/jdk7
   hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build jdk7-build
   

6. Get OpenJDK6 sources (jdk6 master source forest):
   

   mkdir -p ${HOME}/hgrepos/jdk6
   cd ${HOME}/hgrepos/jdk6
   hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6 jdk6-master
   

You need some patches to OpenJDK6 to build on Fedora 9.
Primarily to hotspot (until it gets updated with a newer version),
more minor ones to corba and jdk to get rid of
the findbugs dependence logic which isn’t critical for building.
These patches are hopefully a temporary situation.

jdk6/hotspot

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jdk6/jdk

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jdk6/corba

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Now to see if I can build both OpenJDK7 and OpenJDK6:

# To get rid of a few sanity errors
unset JAVA_HOME
LANG=C
export LANG

# My own private copy of ant
ANT_HOME=${HOME}/import/ant_home
export ANT_HOME

# Use the JDK that is part of Fedora 9
ALT_BOOTDIR=/etc/alternatives/java_sdk_1.6.0
export ALT_BOOTDIR

# Add java and ant to the PATH
PATH="${ALT_BOOTDIR}/bin:${ANT_HOME}/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
export PATH

# Go to the root of the jdk7 source forest
cd ${HOME}/hgrepos/jdk7/jdk7-build

# Build jdk7
#  Don't run javadoc, too slow, needs 1024Mb RAM minimum
make NO_DOCS=true

# Go to the root of the jdk6 source forest
cd ${HOME}/hgrepos/jdk6/jdk6-master

# Build jdk6
#  Empty WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS gets rid of -Werror option, too many warnings
#  Don't run javadoc, too slow, needs 1024Mb RAM minimum
make WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS=  NO_DOCS=true

SUCCESS! They both build.

-kto

Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/kto/entry/fedora_9_and_mac_vmware