[CentOS] Installing Centos4.3 in VMWare on XP

Wed Jun 7 12:54:46 UTC 2006
William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> William Hooper wrote:
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>> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
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>>> Azil Adi Permana wrote:
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>>>> 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.

Creating a vmdk is completely different then "install[ing] a system". 
There are a number of vmdk's available (some from VMWare, some from other
sources) that one could reformat quite easily.

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William Hooper