Scavenger Daemon - VMWare Fusion Image

I have just uploaded a VMWare Fusion 3 virtual machine image that you may use to tryout Scavenger. The image is a minimal Ubuntu 9.10 server install with Presence and Scavenger pre-installed - you can fetch it here.

Here's how you use it:

• Download and unpack the zip file.


• Open the VM in VMWare Fusion 3. When it prompts you the first time select "Take ownership", and the second time you must choose "I copied it".


• Login with username "scavenger" and password "scavenger".


• Go to $HOME/scavenger (i.e., "cd scavenger").


• Start the Scavenger daemon by issuing this command: "./start_daemon.sh"

Now you have a fully functional Scavenger daemon running. The Scavenger daemon is running from an SVN checkout, so you may update it to the most current version by issuing the command "svn up daemon scavenger_common" from within the $HOME/scavenger directory.

In order to make the daemon running within the VM discoverable you of course have to configure the networking options to fit your environment. I think it is set to use bridged networking at the moment, which should fit in most circumstances.