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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Installing VMware
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Installing a VMware Guest OS
For our final task, installing another operating system, we downloaded Fedora Core
5 from VMware’s community site, moved it to the Virtual Machines directory, and
decompressed it as we did with Debian. Next, we added it to our inventory through
the File menu. Figure 9-8 shows a question about a unique identifier; you can keep
the existing one.
VMware’s management console noticed we added an image. In order to distinguish
between possible multiple images, it prompted us for a unique identifier (UUID) in
the dialog shown in Figure 9-8. Because we copied Fedora 5 and have all the files
making up the image, it did not matter which option we chose from the dialog.
When you open a new virtual machine, VMware gives you a chance to verify the vir-
tual hardware configuration. Figure 9-9 gives you an idea of the virtual hardware
inventory available for Fedora Core 5.
In addition to downloading images and loading them into the management con-
sole, you can install a Linux operating system from a standard Linux distribution’s
CD-ROM.
Figure 9-8. VMware asks about a virtual machine image’s unique identifier
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