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www.vmware.com10Guest Operating System Installation GuideWindows 2000 on page 27 4.0–4.5.2 3.0–3.1 2.0–2.1 1.0–1.1Windows NT 4.0 on page 30 4.0–4.5.2

www.vmware.com100Guest Operating System Installation GuideKnown IssuesVirtual Machine May Hang during Guest Operating System InstallationOn some host

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems101SuSE Linux 8.1 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:• VM

www.vmware.com102Guest Operating System Installation GuideVMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems103Known IssuesVirtual Machine May Hang during Guest Operating System InstallationOn some host systems,

www.vmware.com104Guest Operating System Installation GuideSuSE Linux 8.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware produ

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems105VMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the man

www.vmware.com106Guest Operating System Installation GuideSuSE Linux 7.3 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware produ

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems107After you have installed VMware Tools you may boot your SuSE 7.3 virtual machine with any of the sel

www.vmware.com108Guest Operating System Installation GuideTurbolinux Enterprise Server 8SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the followi

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems109Do not start the X server in the guest operating system until you install VMware Tools and run the S

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems11FreeBSD 4.4, 4.5, 4.6.2, 4.8 and 5.0 on page 1164.0–4.5.2 3.0–3.1 1.1FreeBSD 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 on

www.vmware.com110Guest Operating System Installation GuideKnown Issues Guest Screen SaverOn a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems111Turbolinux Workstation 8SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware prod

www.vmware.com112Guest Operating System Installation GuideDo not start the X server in the guest operating system until you install VMware Tools and r

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems113Known Issues Guest Screen SaverOn a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a

www.vmware.com114Guest Operating System Installation GuideTurbolinux 7.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware produ

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems115VMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the man

www.vmware.com116Guest Operating System Installation GuideFreeBSD 4.4, 4.5, 4.6.2, 4.8 and 5.0SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the f

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems117Guest Screen SaverOn a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver

www.vmware.com118Guest Operating System Installation GuideFreeBSD 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the followi

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems119It fails to boot because the virtual disk geometry is not probed correctly by FreeBSD when you insta

www.vmware.com12Guest Operating System Installation GuideSupported and Unsupported Guest Operating SystemsIf you are using VMware® Workstation 3.x, VM

www.vmware.com120Guest Operating System Installation Guide2. To set the disk geometry, press G to select the option Set Drive Geometry. A dialog box a

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems1214. You can now enter the correct geometry of 261 cylinders, 255 heads and 63 sectors per head by ty

www.vmware.com122Guest Operating System Installation GuideNetWare 6.5 ServerSupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware pr

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems1234. When prompted, choose IDE CD-ROM. 5. Create a new boot partition. The guest operating system rebo

www.vmware.com124Guest Operating System Installation GuideNote the host’s IP address for VMnet8 and change the last octet so it is greater than the la

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems125around this issue, use the numeric keypad, but first turn off the number lock by pressing the Num Lo

www.vmware.com126Guest Operating System Installation GuideNetWare 6.0 Server SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware p

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems1271. Insert the Novell NetWare 6.0 CD in the CD-ROM drive.2. Power on the virtual machine to start ins

www.vmware.com128Guest Operating System Installation GuideNote the host’s IP address for VMnet8 and change the last octet so it is greater than the la

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems129Installation Failure on First TryDuring the installation of the guest operating system, if you get a

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems13General Guidelines for All VMware ProductsBefore starting to install a guest operating system, create

www.vmware.com130Guest Operating System Installation GuideNetWare 5.1 Server SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware p

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems131Installation StepsTo install NetWare 5.1 in a virtual machine, take the following steps.1. Insert th

www.vmware.com132Guest Operating System Installation GuideAt a command prompt on a Windows host, typeipconfig /allAt a command prompt on a Linux host,

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems133fixes. To locate the driver, go to the LSI Logic download site on the Web at support.megaraid.com/su

www.vmware.com134Guest Operating System Installation GuideRouter at node 000C29D02242 claims network 511F827 should be 2010F5EARouter configuration er

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems135NetWare 4.2 ServerSupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

www.vmware.com136Guest Operating System Installation Guidefile) as shown below. If you are using a DOS boot partition, adjust the drive letters accord

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems137Copy himem.sys c:Copy nwcdex.exe c:Copy nec_ide.sys c:9. Modify the autoexec.bat file so it points t

www.vmware.com138Guest Operating System Installation Guidetakes CPU time from the host regardless of whether the NetWare server software is idle or bu

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems139Solaris 10 Operating System x86 Platform Edition Support This guest operating system has experimenta

www.vmware.com14Guest Operating System Installation Guideconfiguration tool for your VMware product to connect the virtual machine’s CD drive to the I

www.vmware.com140Guest Operating System Installation Guide6. At the View/Edit Property Settings screen, use the arrow keys to navigate to ata-dma-enab

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems141Solaris 9 Operating System x86 Platform Edition Support This guest operating system has experimental

www.vmware.com142Guest Operating System Installation Guide6. At the View/Edit Property Settings screen, use the arrow keys to navigate to ata-dma-enab

143AActivationand memory settings 18, 22, 25and VMware Tools 18, 22, 26Longhorn 18Windows Server 2003 22Windows XP 25AddressIP via DHCP in Red Hat Lin

www.vmware.com144NetWare guest 122, 126, 130, 135Red Hat Linux 7.1 with early 2.4 ker-nel 85Red Hat Linux 7.2 with early 2.4 ker-nel 81Red Hat Linux g

145Mouseresolving problems in Windows 3.x guest 42MS-DOSknown issues 42prompt during Windows 95 installa-tion 38screen saver 42use of CPU idle program

www.vmware.com146and Windows XP guest 24for Windows XP guest 24SCSI virtual diskin FreeBSD guest 118Serial portsin Windows 95 guest 40in Windows 98 gu

147Windows 3.x 42Windows 95 40Windows 98 36Windows Me 34Windows NT 32Windows Server 2003 22Windows XP 25Turbolinuxinstalling guest operating system 10

www.vmware.com148Windows Longhorninstalling guest operating system 15Windows Meinstalling guest operating system 33known issues 34screen saver 34Windo

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems15Windows, Code-named Longhorn, BetaSupportThis beta operating system has experimental support as a gue

www.vmware.com16Guest Operating System Installation GuideInstallation StepsIf you want to run Longhorn in a virtual machine, be sure you have a full i

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems17hang. However, if you press Alt-Tab, you can bring the warning message to the foreground. There are t

www.vmware.com18Guest Operating System Installation GuideProduct ActivationThe Longhorn product activation feature creates a numerical key based on th

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems19Checked (Debug) BuildVMware GSX Server: In order to install and run a checked (debug) build of Longho

Please note that you will always find the most up-to-date technical docu-mentation on our Web site at http://www.vmware.com/support/.The VMware Web si

www.vmware.com20Guest Operating System Installation GuideWindows Server 2003 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems21site at www.vmware.com/download. Follow the instructions on the Web site to use the driver with a fre

www.vmware.com22Guest Operating System Installation GuideKnown IssuesProduct ActivationThe Microsoft Windows Server 2003 product activation feature cr

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems23Guest Screen SaverOn a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver

www.vmware.com24Guest Operating System Installation GuideWindows XP SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems25Installation Steps If you want to run Windows XP Home Edition or Professional in a virtual machine, b

www.vmware.com26Guest Operating System Installation Guide256MB, 512MB and 1GB — the product activation feature sees the changes as significant. Note:

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems27Windows 2000 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:• VMwa

www.vmware.com28Guest Operating System Installation GuideVMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems29times, you may experiment with values between 1 and 700 to find the smallest value that allows the vi

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www.vmware.com30Guest Operating System Installation GuideWindows NT 4.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware produc

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems31channel 0 only, unless you have the virtual machine configured with multiple virtual disks). Note: T

www.vmware.com32Guest Operating System Installation Guidec. A message pops up prompting you to enter a path for the Windows NT files. Specify the \i38

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems33Windows Me SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:• VMware

www.vmware.com34Guest Operating System Installation Guidebeen installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in the GSX

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems35Windows 98 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:• VMware

www.vmware.com36Guest Operating System Installation GuideEnabling Networking After Installing Windows 98If networking was disabled at the time you ins

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems37Windows 95 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:• VMware

www.vmware.com38Guest Operating System Installation Guide4. Partition the virtual disk. A:\> FDISKAnswer the questions.Note: If you create a prima

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems39Also be sure that the Microsoft NetBEUI protocol is installed. It may not be installed by default.9.

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www.vmware.com40Guest Operating System Installation GuideKnown IssuesNetworkingAfter you install Windows 95, you may find that networking is not worki

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems41DOS and Windows 3.1x SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products

www.vmware.com42Guest Operating System Installation Guidein Windows 3.11 (or Windows for Workgroups). If you set up networking, choose the Advanced Mi

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems43Mandrake Linux 9.2 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

www.vmware.com44Guest Operating System Installation Guide6. When you reach the Summary screen, configure the graphical interface and the boot loader.7

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems45Note: As you are installing and configuring VMware Tools, the configuration program asks for the loc

www.vmware.com46Guest Operating System Installation GuideMandrake Linux 9.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware pr

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems47disable numlock. If you do not disable numlock when you install the guest, the number lock is always

www.vmware.com48Guest Operating System Installation GuideNote: As you are installing and configuring VMware Tools, the configuration program asks for

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems49Mandrake Linux 8.2 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

5Red Hat Linux 8.0 _______________________________________________72Support ____________________________________________________72General Installati

www.vmware.com50Guest Operating System Installation Guide8. You are offered a choice of 2 XFree86 X servers to install. Choose XFree 4.2.0. This drive

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems51Enabling Sound in a Mandrake 8.2 GuestVMware GSX Server: The sound device is disabled by default and

www.vmware.com52Guest Operating System Installation GuideMandrake Linux 8.0 and 8.1SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VM

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems538. Near the end of the installation, after files have been copied, you reach the monitor setup screen

www.vmware.com54Guest Operating System Installation GuidePower off the virtual machine and close the virtual machine window. Open the virtual machine’

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems55Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware p

www.vmware.com56Guest Operating System Installation Guide...Use the function keys listed below ...To choose the text mode installer, type text and pre

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems57LAN that provides DHCP support, then in the Network Configuration screen, you may select the option U

www.vmware.com58Guest Operating System Installation Guidealso true: a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 virtual machine created on a host with an Intel pro

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems59Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware p

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www.vmware.com60Guest Operating System Installation GuideTo install or upgrade Red Hat Linux ... in graphical mode ...To install or upgrade ... in tex

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems61see the release notes at www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/releasenotes_esx21.html#vmpkernel.7. Allow

www.vmware.com62Guest Operating System Installation GuideKnown Issues Guest Screen SaverVMware GSX Server: On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X serve

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems63Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMw

www.vmware.com64Guest Operating System Installation GuideTo install or upgrade Red Hat Linux ... in graphical mode ...To install or upgrade ... in tex

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems65Server, see the release notes at www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/releasenotes_esx21.html#vmpkernel.7

www.vmware.com66Guest Operating System Installation GuideMigration to a Different ProcessorVMware Workstation: VMware recommends you do not migrate a

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems67Red Hat Linux 9.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

www.vmware.com68Guest Operating System Installation Guide3. Follow the installation steps as you would for a physical machine. Be sure to make the cho

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems69been installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in the GSX Server

7NetWare 6.0 Server _____________________________________________126Support ___________________________________________________126General Installatio

www.vmware.com70Guest Operating System Installation GuideModifying Your GRUB Boot Loader1. In a text editor, edit /etc/grub.conf.2. Look for the follo

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems71During the Red Hat Linux 9.0 installation, Red Hat 9.0 chooses a kernel that is optimized for the spe

www.vmware.com72Guest Operating System Installation GuideRed Hat Linux 8.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware pro

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems733. Follow the installation steps as you would for a physical machine. Be sure to make the choices out

www.vmware.com74Guest Operating System Installation Guidebeen installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in the GSX

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems75Red Hat Linux 7.3 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

www.vmware.com76Guest Operating System Installation Guide3. Follow the installation steps as you would for a physical machine. Be sure to make the cho

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems77Found an installed version of the VMware SVGA driver for XFree86 4. Some versions of this driver incl

www.vmware.com78Guest Operating System Installation GuideThis problem is not specific to virtual machines and would also occur on physical computers.

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems79Red Hat Linux 7.2 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

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www.vmware.com80Guest Operating System Installation Guide3. Follow the installation steps as you would for a physical machine. Be sure to make the cho

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems81Do not start X until you have installed VMware Tools.Enabling Sound After Installing Red Hat Linux 7.

www.vmware.com82Guest Operating System Installation Guideinstructions that are only available for that processor. These instructions can have adverse

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems83Red Hat Linux 7.1 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

www.vmware.com84Guest Operating System Installation Guide4. Choose the language and keyboard, then in the Installation Type screen, choose either Serv

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems85Enabling Sound After Installing Red Hat Linux 7.1VMware GSX Server: The sound device is disabled by d

www.vmware.com86Guest Operating System Installation GuideThus, a Red Hat Linux 7.1 virtual machine created on a host with an AMD processor may not wor

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems87Red Hat Linux 7.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:•

www.vmware.com88Guest Operating System Installation Guide4. In Video Card Selection choose Generic VGA compatible, then click OK. 5. Near the end of t

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems89SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMwar

9Choosing and Installing Guest Operating SystemsThe following sections provide notes on installing specific guest operating systems under the VMware p

www.vmware.com90Guest Operating System Installation GuideVMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems91SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware

www.vmware.com92Guest Operating System Installation GuideVMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems93SUSE LINUX 9.1 Support This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products: • V

www.vmware.com94Guest Operating System Installation Guidehas been installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in the

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems95SUSE LINUX 9.0 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:• VMw

www.vmware.com96Guest Operating System Installation GuideDo not start the X server in the guest operating system until you install VMware Tools and ru

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems97Guest Screen SaverVMware Workstation or VMware GSX Server: On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X serv

www.vmware.com98Guest Operating System Installation GuideSuSE Linux 8.2 SupportThis guest operating system is supported on the following VMware produc

Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems99VMware ToolsBe sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the manu