[CentOS] Installing Centos4.3 in VMWare on XP
Ralph Angenendt
ra+centos at br-online.de
Wed Jun 7 12:46:04 UTC 2006
William Hooper wrote:
>
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > Azil Adi Permana wrote:
> >
> >> but this trick cannot be used with VMWare Player, since i use this to
> >> minimizing my desktop's memory.
> >
> > You cannot install a system with vmware player.
>
> Why not? Editing the config file to point to the ISO is all you need.
Since when does vmware player(!) allow for the creation of vmware vmdks?
^^^^^^^^^
Again: You need either a prebuilt vmdk image or one of the other vmware
products to create vmdks. vmware player can not do that.
qemu-img is able to write vmdks (compatible vmware 3 and 4), but I
haven't gotten those to fly with vmware player.
Ralph
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