How to setup Ubuntu Core 16 for developers on OS X with VMWare Fusion

snappy-osx-vmware-fusion-howto.md

Creating an Ubuntu Core Series 16 image

On VMWare fusion, running an Ubuntu Xenial VM, which has a copy of your OS X public SSH key -- the script to build the image will add it to the generated image -- grab the script at https://github.com/zyga/devtools/blob/master/ubuntu-image to create a new image:

./ubuntu-image.sh --developer-mode pc

Convert .img to .vmdk

qemu-img convert pc-devel.img -O vmdk snappy.vmdk

Creating the Ubuntu Core VM from .vmdk

• Copy snappy.vmdk to your OS X host
• In the VMware Fusion menu > New... > More Options > Create a custom virtual machine
• Select Ubuntu 64-bit as OS
• Use an existing virtual disk > Select 'snappy.vmdk' as disk > Continue > Customize Settings > Save
• In the VM setting panel, select the Hard Disk:
  • Advanced options
  • Set 'Bus type': IDE
  • Apply settings changes
• Start VM

You should now have an Ubuntu Core VM with you SSH key already added, login with user/pass 'ubuntu/ubuntu' in the VMWare console and get the IP address, then you can SSH to that address as user ubuntu and test sideloaded snaps.

findfs: unable to resolve 'LABEL=writable'

Don't let vmware set the HDD bus to SCSI, set it to IDE.
In older versions of Fusion (<8) this keeps resetting, have no fix.