#5-Its a workaround for some functionality missing in the free version of VMware.
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I do believe that technically you *could* make a live CD with VMware player for linux, and add in the appropriate drivers for accessing images from a HDD(maybe Knoppix?).Its a total cludge IMHO, but could work. If i figure it out, i’ll be sure to let you know. VMware uses its own drivers to hook onto the host system’s networking so its a little tricky. Pick the first option, to “boot with el toreto cd rom driver” (default)Īnd then the second option, to run FreeDOS from CD command prompt. From thereĬhoose to boot to the second option “FreeDOS ** FAT32. Where you should choose to boot from CDrom. If all goes well, you should be greeted by Press escape and choose to boot from the CD drive at the next screen. Once this is done, save the edited vmx file and run it. Where C:targetcd.iso is the location of the disk you intend to use. While using daemontools, or a similar CD mounting program is an option, a more elegant method would be to use VMware player’s own ability to read ISOs.Īt this point i suggest saving and making a copy of the browser-appliance.vmx file, since it might be desireable to use a physical CD-Rom drive at a later point of time.
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Not really desireable when you want to install from a downloaded ISO. The image i am using has been setup to use the physical CD-Rom drive of my system.
For most operating systems this is sufficient and you can change this later as needed. Change the value of memsize to 64 from 256. I’d reccomend changing the settings as needed, though these are what i suggest. I used notepad for this, though any text editor should do. Once you’ve downloaded the browser appliance or whatever image you intend to use, the first step is to open up and edit the browser-appliance.vmx file. Replacement OS (must have SCSI HDD support)
ISO image or CD/floppy of FreeDOS (I’m using the ripcord distribution) or MSDOS 7.1 would work as well, but i haven’t tried it yet. contributed today’s how-to for creating your own virtual machines.īrowser appliance or another virtual machine(browser appliance is the smallest one, by size, and thus I am using that) It lets you run virtual machines, but not create them.
Last week the free VMware player was released.
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