[CentOS] CentOS5 and VMware

Tue May 22 17:45:02 UTC 2007
drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>

I've built several CentOS5 VM directly from the DVD .iso on
VMware ESX Server.

On 5/22/07, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> centos at 911networks.com wrote:
> > I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple
> > of computers without any problem.
> >
> > I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it
> > goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD
> > for Xorg.
> >
> > Any suggestion?
>
> Download the DVD, since there's no value in swapping disks with a VM.
> You can ask VMware to treat the raw ISO image as a real DVD-ROM drive,
> so you don't have to have any kind of optical drive in the VM host
> server machine.
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Drew Einhorn