Creating Virtual Machine for the free VMware Player
VMware Player is a new free software that enables you to run any existing virtual machine created by their paid product, such as VMware workstation. By default it does not allow you to create any new virtual machine. John Bokma has written a quick how-to on creating a free virtual machine image using QEmu. By using that you can create a fresh image and with a appropriate config file and information, you can install an operating system such as Windows XP:
Today, after re-reading the “How-to: VMware Player modification” post on the Hack a Day site, I decided to give my creating a VM that works with the free VMware Player another chance. The instructions given below are based on a post made by Rhys.
If you haven’t done so yet, download the Free VMware Player.
Next, you need the qemu-img.exe program that comes with QEMU. If you are using Windows (like I do) you can download QemuInstall-0.7.2.exe. After downloading this program, install it. Start a command prompt and go to the installation directory of QEMU…
Creating an XP Pro VM for the free VMware Player - [John Bokma]
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Funcker >> Real Estate InfoBaze says on February 7th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
“Create a virtual machine” - Choose this 99% of the time for creating a Virtual Machine using the wizard. For the purposes of this instruction, choose this selection, then click “Next”.
“Use default settings to create a virtual machine” - This will skip the wizard and setup a pre-configured Virtual Machine WITHOUT a hard disk associated with it.
“Add an existing virtual machine” - Use this when you’re loading a pre-built Virtual Machine image.
Give the Virtual Machine a name. By default, Virtual Machines are stored in “My Documents” in a folder called “My Virtual Machines”. Click “Next” when finished.
Select an operating system from the pull-down menu. This has no real bearing on what OS you can install in the Virtual Machine, it just pre configures some settings for that particular operating system. Click “Next”
Decide whether to use the recommended RAM size or your own. To adjust the allocated RAM, click the “Adjusting the RAM” radio button and move the slider or enter the amount of RAM you want to allocate in the text box. Click “Next”
Unless you are adding a pre-built Virtual Machine image, chose “A new virtual hard disk”. Click “Next”
By default, Virtual PC will store the .VHD (virtual hard disk) file in the directory you provided earlier. You can change this or leave it at the default. Click “Next”
Click “Finish”. You have now created a “blank” Virtual Machine.