VM configuration

VM setup

When creating a VM, you may not want to give VMWare all the information about the system. The reason behind this is because VMWare is smart enough to automatically handle some SO installation stages; this stages will be skipped on the UI, and this will make the deployment procedure different than one performed on a real machine.

Setting up VMWare

Sample settings for creating a new VM:

• VM configuration: Custom
• HW compatibility: workstation 8
• Install OS from: I will install the the operationg system later
• Guest OS: Linux Centos 64-bit
• VM name: setup the name
• Processors: 1 processor, 2 cores
• Memory: 6144MB
• Network connection: bridged

Then configure the disk as you need. 1 This is a sample configuration:

• I/O Controller type: LSI Logic
• Disk: create a new virtual disk
• Virtual disk type: SCSI
• Mode: Independent, persistent
• Max disk size: 30G, store virtual disk as a single file.

Then configure the DVD reader setting the ISO image of the OSinstaller, and start the VM.