Creating VMplayer "appliances"

Posted by Sim at Apr 25, 2008 10:45 PM |
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I have figured out a lot about how to create VMware virtual system images use the free VMPlayer rather than using VMware Workstation. Here are some of my notes from setting them up.

 

  • Create disks and basic configurations: http://easyvmx.com/
    This site made it easy to create large disk images split into multiple files.
  • Install VMware tools by installing VMware Converter and updating the tools from the installer in the vmware-tools folder.
  • Fix the USB drivers to use USB 2.0:
    Add line:

    ehci.present="true"

    Rebooted and it updated the drivers.
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