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March 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
 
VMware Player is by far the fastest product if you simply want to run windows e.g. on your linux desktop.

Download


http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html

For ubuntu, mint linux, debian you can simply download the *.bundle file and install it with: 

chmod 755 *.bundle
sudo ./VMware-Player-2.5.3-185404.i386.bundle

Follow the dialog and you are done.

Creating an empty image file for VMWare Player


You’ll need qemu for that: 

apt-get install qemu

And then execute the following to create a 20G image file: 

qemu-img create -f vmdk win2k.vmdk 20G


Now create create the file “win2k.vmx”: 

#!/usr/bin/vmplayer
displayName = "Windows"
guestOS = "winXPPro"
 
memsize = "512"
ide0:0.fileName = "20GB.vmdk"
ide1:0.fileName = "cdrom.iso"
 
# DEFAULT SETTINGS UNDER THIS LINE
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
 
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
 
uuid.location = "56 4d 6a df fc aa 4a f5-a3 4c 18 36 46 50 53 8a"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 6a df fc aa 4a f5-a3 4c 18 36 46 50 53 8a"
 
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
 
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:50:53:8a"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
 
usb.present = "FALSE"
sound.present = "FALSE"
 
scsi0.present = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.present = "FALSE"
scsi0:1.present = "FALSE"
 
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
 
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
 
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.deviceType = "disk"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
 
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
 
ide0:0.redo = ""

(originally by: http://www.ffnn.nl)

They also have a template for linux guests: 

#!/usr/bin/vmplayer
displayName = "Linux 2.6.x Host"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"
 
memsize = "512"
scsi0:0.fileName = "10G.vmdk"
ide1:0.fileName = "cdrom.iso"
 
# DEFAULT SETTINGS UNDER THIS LINE
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
 
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
 
uuid.location = "56 4d 11 ba 20 f6 e6 29-2c a8 49 4c 8d 84 65 86"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 11 ba 20 f6 e6 29-2c a8 49 4c 8d 84 65 86"
 
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
 
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:84:65:86"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
 
usb.present = "FALSE"
sound.present = "FALSE"
 
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualdev = "lsilogic"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "disk"
scsi0:0.mode = "persistent"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
 
scsi0:1.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
 
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"


Possible guestOS codes

  • winVista
  • longhorn
  • winNetBusiness
  • winNetEnterprise
  • winNetStandard
  • winNetWeb
  • winXPPro
  • winXPHome
  • win2000AdvServ
  • win2000Serv
  • win2000Pro
  • winNT
  • winMe
  • win98
  • win95
  • win31
  • windows
  • winVista-64
  • longhorn-64
  • winNetEnterprise-64
  • winNetStandard-64
  • winXPPro-64
  • ubuntu
  • redhat
  • rhel4
  • rhel3
  • rhel2
  • suse
  • sles
  • mandrake
  • nld9
  • sjds
  • turbolinux
  • other26xlinux
  • other24xlinux
  • linux
  • ubuntu-64
  • rhel4-64
  • rhel3-64
  • sles-64
  • suse-64
  • other26xlinux-64
  • other24xlinux-64
  • otherlinux-64
Edit it to match your needs. After that make the file executable and double click it :) .