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.