On 28 October 2012 15:36, Madhurranjan Mohaan mohanma@thoughtworks.com wrote:
I've had issues over the last few days trying to create a Centos server image . I've tried with Vmware fusion and Vmware server and it skips directly to the default desktop install and doesn't give me the option to run the linux server. I am not sure if you've seen this earlier. I've tried with Centos 5.8 and 6.0 but the installer seems to work in that manner .
When creating the VM, do not mark it as RHEL/CentOS, just create a standard VM and then install it via the ISO. VMWare Player and now-no-longer-supported Server etc. have some "user-friendly" features which assumes things which you don't need.
Once the OS is installed, install the VMware tools separately.