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Peter, Vmware works in a unique way. To get the best performance of vmware you need to install a guest OS, linux being your host. You need a lot of disk space, and a lot of memory would help. When you install a guest OS vmware will create a virtual file system for the guest OS to run on. The guest OS thinks that it is really unpartitioned space on a real HDD. This is actually a file in the guest OS's directory. These are the file that are vmware reads. not the size of win98.dsk (the virtual file system) drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 14 23:04 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root nogroup 1024 Feb 23 22:25 ../ -rwxr--r-- 1 brad brad 717 Mar 7 18:36 win98.cfg* -rw-r--r-- 1 brad brad 389716992 Mar 14 23:04 win98.dsk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13253 Mar 14 23:04 win98.log -rw-r--r-- 1 brad brad 8496 Mar 14 23:04 win98.nvram [brad at jupiter win98]$ That was just some background info. Now to install a guest OS. You'll probably want to use the wizard (the easiest). Go through the proper steps, and chose the options that you want. The virtual disk space will be the *.dsk file. ( Since the virtual file system grows dynamicly you can make the virtual disk space larger then space that you actually have if you plan to get a bigger HDD sometime. My virtual disk is 2GB, but the .dsk file is only 390MB. ) Then you put in the CD od the guest OS that you want to install, and click power on on vmware. When you click on the poert button you will see the vmware BIOS pop up, and go through its sequece, when you see the BIOS count memory, vmware is actully grabbing that memory away from your host OS. If the vmware BIOS counts 32MB of memory then vmware will be taking up 35Mb of memory (32 ro guest os and 3 for vmware itself). you can change the about of memory that vmware grabs in the config editor. So having a lot of memory helps. I hope this helps you get started --Brad On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Peter Jon White wrote: > I've gotten Linux running on my Pentium system. And I've downloaded VMWARE > for Linux, 2.0. I'm using KDE. Kpackage has installed VMWARE, or at least I > think it has. But I can't find it! > > How do you start up the virtual machine? > > Peter Jon White > Peter White Cycles > 666 Mass Ave > Acton, MA 01720 > 978 635 0969 Voice > 978 929 9654 Fax > http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com > mailto:Peter at PeterWhiteCycles.com > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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