Installation guide

C H A P T E R 2 Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines
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2. Click Add Virtual Machine. The Add Virtual Machine wizard starts.
3. Choose the guest operating system for your virtual machine. Corresponding
default entries appear for the name of the virtual machine and the name of its
configuration file. You can change these settings.
The name you enter in the Display Name field is the name that is listed in the
VMware Management Interface. Be sure to enter a name that allows you to
distinguish this virtual machine from others you have created or plan to create.
Be sure that the entry in the Location field is unique. The default path and
filename are based on the guest operating system you have chosen. If other
virtual machines have been created on this server, you must change the path to
create a new, unique directory for the new virtual machine.
The Location field contains the name of the configuration file (this file has a
.vmx extension; this directory also contains other virtual machine files).
Note: Configuration files for virtual machines created with VMware ESX Server
2.1 use the .vmx extension. Earlier versions of ESX Server used the .cfg
extension. Virtual machine configuration files with a .cfg extension can be
accessed by ESX Server 2.1 normally.