Specifications

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in the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the Help menu
or from the VMware Web site at www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/index.html.
To create a virtual machine from the VMware Management Interface, complete the
following steps.
1. On the Status Monitor page, click Add Virtual Machine. The Add Virtual Machine
page appears.
2. In the Guest Operating System list, select the guest operating system for the
new virtual machine. A name for the virtual machine appears in the Display
Name field; a default path to the configuration file appears in the Location field.
Note: If you are creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 virtual machine, select
Other Linux 2.6.x Kernel.
If you want, you can change the display name for the new virtual machine. In the
Display Name field, type a descriptive name of the new virtual machine. This
name appears in the Display Name column in the management interface and in
the VMware Virtual Machine Console.
If you want, you can change the path to the new virtual machine. In the
Location field, type the path to the new virtual machine’s configuration file on
the host machine.
Each virtual machine must have its own directory. All associated files, such as the
configuration file and the disk files, are placed in this directory.
After you make your selections, click Next to continue.