[Terry A. Davis]

Hello this is Perfect Cell, today I will show you how to install a VMWare OS.

We are going to click on create a new machine:
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Then we are going to choose custom then click next
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Choose workstation 8 since has the best supported features
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We are going to install it later so choose that
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Here we choose the OS we want to install I am going to be using XP just choose the one you are installing
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Now choose the name you can leave these as default but it is better for recognition if we rename them
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Choose the CPU power I am going to leave these as they are
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Now the amount of RAM we are going to use
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For the network we are going to use bridged
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For IO just use what is recommended
Create a new virtual disk
Choose IDE as the disk type
Choose what ever size you want for your HDD
Leave the disk file name
Look over it and click finish

Now this will pop up choose CD/DVD
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Choose ISO and browse to where it is located
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Now power on to BIOS so we can change the boot order
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Change it to CD/DVD
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Exit saving changes and power it on and proceed with your OS's installation. Thanks for reading 🤝

Now if your to lazy to read that you can watch the video version
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I hope you enjoy my work on this it took about half an hour to type so all you need to do is say thanks.


🤝 Until next time, Perfect Cell.

[Desty]

Supreme tutorial.

Do you have to have 2 seperate harddrives or just one? I started downloading workstation 9 few second ago.

[Terry A. Davis]

Supreme tutorial.

Do you have to have 2 seperate harddrives or just one? I started downloading workstation 9 few second ago.

One, why do you ask? I had to remove my second as it had bad sectors causing me to blue screen.

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Nice Tutorial :D ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­

Thank you for showing an interest but be sure to stick the the minimum char limit

[Cylon58]

As always, you are very helpful Perfect Cell. This tutorial is certainly easier to follow than some others you might find when looking for help.

[moonsee110]

nice tutorials !
for runing vmware in windowns you must need at least 4 gb ram to run both vmwork station and your host pc.

[Rage™]

Great tutorial Cell. Another HQ contribution. Great job and nice thread. 🤝

[tux1]

Nice tutorial, bookmarked this for later!

[Terry A. Davis]

Thanks for all the replies i will work on one for vbox when i get gome

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OK, now that I am home I am starting work on my VBox one

[TheGrayAviator]

Thanks for all the replies i will work on one for vbox when i get gome

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OK, now that I am home I am starting work on my VBox one

Glad you made it, I was going to do it, but due to time constraints I was unable to.

Very nicely done.

[Terry A. Davis]

Glad you made it, I was going to do it, but due to time constraints I was unable to.

Very nicely done.

😁 Thanks, I am doing the Virtual Box one as we speak

[TheGrayAviator]

😁 Thanks, I am doing the Virtual Box one as we speak

Good work buddy. Would be nice, if you could ask a moderator to place your thread up on the top, like a stickie.

So that it doesn't get buried and forgotten.

[Terry A. Davis]

Good work buddy. Would be nice, if you could ask a moderator to place your thread up on the top, like a stickie.

So that it doesn't get buried and forgotten.

Xch4ng3 has his one but if you really think that way, contact a member of staff and recommend it :D

[archangel.dmitry]

Security wise I would recommend NAT configuration instead of bridged with purpose to isolate potential spread over the network to real hosts.

Also, you can remove floppy drive and printer from list of hardware. Sound card can be removed too but some people use sound even on VMs. There is also option to have your hard drive split or save as a single image or use a physical one. For Windows XP, it is better to go with 512MB of RAM in case if you want to run any kind software that is not part of Windows.

One more thing, I have VMWare 8 and never had to go to BIOS to change Boot priority. By default, it will boot of CD/DVD or ISO if system partition is not found.

[Terry A. Davis]

Security wise I would recommend NAT configuration instead of bridged with purpose to isolate potential spread over the network to real hosts.

Also, you can remove floppy drive and printer from list of hardware. Sound card can be removed too but some people use sound even on VMs. There is also option to have your hard drive split or save as a single image or use a physical one. For Windows XP, it is better to go with 512MB of RAM in case if you want to run any kind software that is not part of Windows.

One more thing, I have VMWare 8 and never had to go to BIOS to change Boot priority. By default, it will boot of CD/DVD or ISO if system partition is not found.

Thanks for all of this, but this is how I have always been doing it and I thought it would be better to go with this since it was a simple guide line nothing more, none the less thanks for showing an interest and pointing these out

[archangel.dmitry]

You did a good job by taking step by step and through custom configuration. It is just so many people here are running or want to run not safe software that it is better to be safe than sorry.

I hope it will become a sticky.