![]() It will skip testing your CD media and save your time. The installation will tell you to begin testing of your installation CD or DVD. And from this menu, select CD-ROM DriveĬlick ENTER. If you’ll not be able to see this screen, then restart your virtual machine and click Esc button for Boot menu. Press ENTER to begin the Installation Process… When your virtual pc starts, you’ll see welcome screen of installation CentOS. Select the Power On this Virtual Machine as shown below ![]() Once done, the VM is ready to be Powered ON. just remove unwanted devices like Floppy Drives and Printers ( Unless you want to use them for your self !!)Ĭlick on CD-ROM (IDE 1)item, select Use ISO image option and click Browse button to select your recently downloaded *.iso installation file of CentOS as shown below We will show you how to attach a HDD to the VM in our PART 3 of the series.Ĭlick Customize Hardware to mount the CentOS ISO File manually and do other bit of “ cleaning up” !!įirst of all, we do the “ clean up“. 5 GB is enough for installing any LINUX OS. we don’t want to provide a lot of Disk unnecessarily. Select Linux from the Guest OS Menu and CentOS 64-Bit as the Version from the drop down list as shown In this way, i can specify the Partitioning tables for my CentOS as I want it. ![]() but i am going to avoid that and install the OS manually. first there is something called as Easy Install which assumes certain criteria for installing the OS and provides a quick way to complete the OS installation. ![]() Now there are two ways of installing a VM using VMware Workstation. We are going to create a TYPICAL Virtual Machine NOTE that these steps can well be used to install any LINUX VM on vSphere platforms as well… just the tuning with respect to the class of OS changes then. In this series of blogs I am going to share my experiences and few best practices when it comes to installing and configuring a LINUX, in this case, a CentOS VM using VMware Workstation 8. ![]() Best Practices- Installing CentOS VM on VMware Workstation – Part 1 INSTALLING CentOS AS A VIRTUAL MACHINE ![]()
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