{"id":3892,"date":"2012-01-17T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2012-10-10T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:55:59","slug":"vmplayer-4-0-1-and-centos-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=3892","title":{"rendered":"Use VMPlayer 4.0.1 to Create a CentOS 5.6 VM from ISO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contents<\/h2>\n
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  1. \n\t\tInstall VMPlayer<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  2. \n\t\tDownload CentOS 5.6 VMWare Image<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  3. \n\t\tCreate a New VM From ISO Images<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  4. \n\t\tConfigure CentOS<\/a>\n\t\t
      \n\t\t\t
    1. \n\t\t\t\tUpdate CentOS<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
    2. \n\t\t\t\tInstall GNOME Desktop<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
    3. \n\t\t\t\tInstall VMTools<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
    4. \n\t\t\t\tAdjust Desktop Display<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\t
    5. \n\t\tReferences<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
       <\/div>\n

      Install VMPlayer<\/h2><\/span>\n

      * Download VMPlayer 4.0.1., e.g. VMware-player-4.0.1-528992.exe<\/em>, from VMWare download site.
      \n* Double click the downloaded file, i.e. VMware-player-4.0.1-528992.exe<\/em>, to install.
      \n* Require restart to finish install.<\/p>\n

      Download CentOS 5.6 VMWare Image<\/h2><\/span>\n

      * Download CentOS 5.6, server install from ThoughtPolice VMWare Images download site<\/a>, e.g. 64-bit: centos-5.6-x86_64-server.zip, 456M.
      \n* Unzip into a local directory, e.g. into c:\\vm
      \n* Open it with VMPlayer
      \n* Start the downloaded CentOS VM
      \n* Click Yes <\/strong>when prompted to download VMware Tools<\/p>\n

      Create a New VM From ISO Images<\/h2><\/span>\n

      * See this post<\/a><\/p>\n

      Configure CentOS<\/h2><\/span>\n

      Update CentOS<\/h3><\/span>\n
      \r\n# Update\r\nyum list\r\nyum update\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Install GNOME Desktop<\/h3><\/span>\n
      \r\nyum grouplist\r\nyum groupinstall \"X Window System\" \"GNOME Desktop Environment\"\r\n\r\n# Start desktop manually\r\nstartx\r\n\r\n# Start desktop automatically: setup default run level to 5\r\nvi \/etc\/inittab\r\nid:5:initdefault:\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Install VMTools<\/h3><\/span>\n
      * Extract CD content from Desktop:<\/p>\n
      \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
      * Or extract manually from command line
      \n– If in desktop mode, press ctr-alt-backspace to exit.<\/p>\n
      \r\n# Mount cdrom\r\nmount \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\r\n\r\n# Create a temp directory\r\ncd\r\nmkdir vmtools\r\n\r\n# Untar\r\ncd vmtools\r\ntar zxf \/mnt\/VMwareTools-8.8.1-528969.tar.gz\r\n\r\n# Unmount\r\numount \/mnt\r\n<\/pre>\n
      * Install:<\/p>\n
      \r\n# Install\r\ncd vmware-tools-distrib\r\n.\/vmware-install.pl\r\n\r\n# accept all defaults\r\n# Enter screen resolution when prompted, e.g. 1440x900\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Adjust Desktop Display<\/h3><\/span>\n
      * Adjust Display by selecting System > Administration > Display<\/em>
      \n* Select Hardware tab:
      \n– Monitor type: LCD Panel 1920×1080
      \n– Video Card: VMware SVGA II Adapter
      \n* Select Settings tab:
      \n– Resolution: 1440×900
      \n– Color Depth: Millions of Colors<\/p>\n
      References<\/h2><\/span>\n
      * VMWare images from ThoughtPolice<\/a>
      \n*       http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/ws4\/doc\/new_guest_tools_ws.html<\/a>
      \n*       Overview of VMtools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Install VMPlayer * Download VMPlayer 4.0.1., e.g. VMware-player-4.0.1-528992.exe, from VMWare download site. * Double click the downloaded file, i.e. VMware-player-4.0.1-528992.exe, to install. * Require restart to finish install. Download CentOS 5.6 VMWare Image * Download CentOS 5.6, server install from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[125,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-vmware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8cRUO-10M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}