Comments on: How-to: VMware player modification

By: VMware ESX installtion

VMware ESX installtion — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:24:24 +0000

Hi, I want to install VMware ESX 3.5, 4 in my desktop any one having any tool or clone please share the link.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:58:26 +0000

I need to try bootable cd/dvd images(ISO)before burning to phsicak media.Can VMware player be used for this if yes how?Please guide!

By: vokuheila

vokuheila — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:54:20 +0000

use thinstall if you want portable vmware player. use vmware server to make the virtual machines

By: Ethical Hacker

Ethical Hacker — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:39:07 +0000

VMWare Workstation Trial can do everything on vm-images (even after expiration) but cannot run them, while VMWare Player can only run them.

Use a combination of both. Create and edit virtual machines with VMWare Workstation Trial and run them using VMWare Player

By: Ilya.Rde

Ilya.Rde — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:26:01 +0000

Actually, you can use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to create a VM HDD and then use free VMWare converter to convert the VM :-)

By: blindhog

blindhog — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:04:49 +0000

I just created a video tutorial to create virtual machines for VMware Player using easyvmx.

http://www.blindhog.net/virtualization-vmware-player-and-easyvmx-free-virtual-machines/

Enjoy!

By: thewyzewun

thewyzewun — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:44:30 +0000

Another way of doing this is DLing Windows Virtual Server (which is free from Microsoft) creating your machines in that and then opening them with VMWare Player, which’ll convert them to it’s native format).

By: gruffy

gruffy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:50:29 +0000

Well done to many of you who got round using VMware Player. A great hack into vmx, but I’ve found a better solution.

Try using the unofficial VMX Builder to create virtual machines in VMware Player. It gives additional configuration options that cannot be found even in Workstation. It is available at http://petruska.stardock.net/Software/VMware.html, where other VMware utilities, including Disk Mount and Virtual Diskfactory can be downloaded. To install all these, be sure to install all the core utilities, at the top page of that site.

WARNING: Some software on site is still in beta. Use at your own risk!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 11 May 2006 05:40:57 +0000

I wrote on my blog an easy way to get a VM up and running with windows as the guest, and got VMware Tools installed. It seems as if VMWARE player was coded to make use of the Tools very well. You’ll see what I mean if you install it right. I can drag and drop from VM to my desktop and share the clipboard amongst other numerous things. The site is http://kirkmeister.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/08/windows-2k-on-vmware-player/

Basically you use VMXwizard to make the disks, a VMWare Workstation Eval version to extract the VMware Tools packages, comes as an .iso, and the VMware player to run the whole shebang. The article is pretty long so check it out for more info.

By: Hoovey

Hoovey — Tue, 09 May 2006 02:40:31 +0000

this doesn’t work. When I hit escape it doesn’t go to the freedos menu. how can i get this to work?

By: samy

samy — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:44:41 +0000

when i install win xp sp2 ill get a error message that there is no hard disk selected ,… what to do how to install xp n one more thing i am not able to connect to internet when i run live lunix cds on vm as it always says unable to bridge or vm0 is down

By: hns

hns — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:14:44 +0000

How do I boot from a USB Disk that has Flashlinux installed on it – the USB disk is bootable – just hate restarting everytime to swap between XP and linux?

By: MadNav

MadNav — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:57:56 +0000

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more posted here since VMware released free VMServer beta2 and anounced forever FREE .. plus the Appliance Competition never came up here .. ISOlinux has been too much fun with these beta test . I need a nickel for every distro I try .. I’d be rich :)
Try FreeNAS as well .. loads of functionality for the really aggessive hypppper vvvm geeksster to dable wwith there .. I’m still suffering from no vmtools installed in my VMs as you typically will haaaave to re-compile your kernel to get reeeeal driver supportt innnstead of the haphazard standard/default settings that occur using non-standard builds.
I am remotttte ddesktoping into a system using client console from VMMMServer uusing a SlaxSssserver5.1 distro and asside from tthe dddoublee typing thing thaat seems to happen periodically this is even better tthan GSX performancee and versaaaatiliity.
Have fun all .. I’m going to sit at a reeal machine and play some free Americas Army Ops :) l8r

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:35:36 +0000

I booted Fedora Core 4, but now do not have any network connectivity through my VMWare image.

Anybody knows how to add networking to the image?

By: xia

xia — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:29:56 +0000

ok, this is cool! Just started reading this topic but ended up creating a Junction Link (ref: http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm ) to another drive to map my “C:Program Files” folder. It was fun trying to get it working. Could not move some .dll files, so plugged the HDD to another computer and removed the .dll files and the remaining directories to make the “C:Program Files” empty and linkmagic did the magic and now I have my “C:Program Files” on a completely new HDD on a new partition making my computer load programs much faster than ever.
Thanks a lot!