Comments on: Create a virtual machine from an ISO with VMWare Player

By: Luis Ventura

Luis Ventura — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:42:27 +0000

Are you sure the ISO was successfully downloaded. Usually when you boot the ISO the installer should come up right away. I have a new post that explains how to use an ISO without having to touch the configuration file.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:41:07 +0000

OK I’m afraid I don’t get it.

I have downloaded the VMWare tool. Then I down loaded Fedora 11 KDE from Fedora not the list of Preinstalled Machines – its 280M instead of ~710MB, so would require burning to disk if I ware to install traditionally?. (Its an *.ISO and I can’t burn to disk and don’t need to apparently from above.) I’ve downloaded the Blank vm fron in the link above and edited a file called Blank VM configuration file. I found it had already been edited to point to my Fedora..*.iso file and make my device type an image instead of Raw, as I’d started VM and clicked Devices > CD/DVD . Connect to Disk Image file (*.iso)

I’m all set to go right? Sadly not. Don’t know how to install the Fedora installation. I have restared the VMWare program after saving the config file but I don’t know how to invoke the installer for Linux from within the VM window.

Any and all help gratefully recieved.

By: Luis Ventura

Luis Ventura — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:31:30 +0000

It’s impossible to provide a pre-made virtual machine of every operating system. Most people would burn the ISO into a CD or DVD and then start the virtual machine.

But you can also use the ISO by itself. This requires downloading the blank virtual machine and making changes to the configuration file in order to point it to the ISO instead of the optical drive. This assumes you already have the ISO of the operating system you wish to install. And just start the virtual machine using VMware Player and proceed with the installation as usual.

If you still don’t get it just ask.

By: sataninja

sataninja — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:08:24 +0000

Thanks!I’ ve download these two.Now i run of course VMware Player(it will ask me about virtual allocation of hard disk?) and then i run immediately one of the ready to go virtual machines?what about ISO??Did i have to burn a cd or not??
Thanks in advance

By: Luis Ventura

Luis Ventura — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:44:09 +0000

Welcome to virtualisation. You need to first need to download VMware Player which is what runs the virtual machines. Then head over to Linhost.info/VMware and download one of the ready to go virtual machines. The blank virtual machine is there if you want to create a new vm from scratch. All virtual machines make use of 7-Zip compression.

By: sataninja

sataninja — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:43:33 +0000

Hello,
I’ m running Windows XP SP3 and i want to run Centos and Linux virtually..can you tell me with simple steps what i must do because i didn’t understand the blank virtual machine…please help…

By: dataninja

dataninja — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:41:34 +0000

Yes, the virtual machine is ready to be used no need to make changes.

By: Aravind

Aravind — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:11:41 +0000

For booting from ISO, we can still use CD/DVD emulation utilities like DAEMON Tools.
I used OpenSUSE LIVE CD ISO Image mounted to DAEMON Tools emulation drive on my WIndows VISTA PC. Then I launched the blank VM Ware image without any mentioned modifications above. It booted from the ISO file that was mounted to virtual drive.

By: dataninja

dataninja — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:02:50 +0000

Linux has a lot options that appeal to different people. But the one I keep going back and most people use is Ubuntu because it’s one of the easiest to use. Due to being easy to use there are a lot of people ready to help in the forums. In my opinion Ubuntu has one of the biggest user base because it takes an easy approach. I been using it for 3 years now.

Take a look
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Good luck.

By: Angelo Sonnesso

Angelo Sonnesso — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:37:48 +0000

I am a blind user and I would really like to find out which version of Linux would work best for me. Your tips are very helpful. Thanks