Getting Started Guide VMware Player 2.
Getting Started Guide Getting Started Guide Revision: 20070503 Item: VMW-ENG-Q207-361 You can find the most up-to-date technical documentation on our Web site at http://www.vmware.com/support/ The VMware Web site also provides the latest product updates. If you have comments about this documentation, submit your feedback to: docfeedback@vmware.com © 2007 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Protected by one or more of U.S. Patent Nos.
Contents Preface 5 Getting Started with VMware Player 7 What Is VMware Player? 7 Downloading VMware Player and Virtual Machines 7 What You Can Do with VMware Player 8 Features in VMware Player 8 What’s New in VMware Player 2.0 8 Host System Requirements for VMware Player 9 Compatible Virtual Machines and System Images 9 Virtual SMP 9 Installing and Running VMware Player 10 Installing VMware Player 10 Configuring the Linux Installation with vmware‐config.
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Preface This preface provides information about the VMware Player Getting Started Guide and links to VMware® technical support and educational resources. This preface contains the following topics: ! “About This Book” on page 5 ! “Technical Support and Education Resources” on page 6 About This Book This manual, the VMware Player Getting Started Guide, provides information about installing and using VMware Player 2.0. Detailed information about how to use VMware Player features is in the online help.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide Technical Support and Education Resources The following sections describe the technical support resources available to you. Self-Service Support Use the VMware Technology Network (VMTN) for self‐help tools and technical information: ! Product information – http://www.vmware.com/products/ ! Technology information – http://www.vmware.com/vcommunity/technology ! Documentation – http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs ! VMTN Knowledge Base – http://www.vmware.
Getting Started with VMware Player This document contains the following sections: ! “What Is VMware Player?” on page 7 ! “Installing and Running VMware Player” on page 10 ! “Supported Host and Guest Operating Systems for VMware Player” on page 13 What Is VMware Player? VMware Player is a free desktop application that lets you run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide What You Can Do with VMware Player With VMware Player, you can: ! Use and evaluate prebuilt applications – Download and safely run prebuilt application environments in virtual machines that are available from the Virtual Appliance Marketplace at http://vam.vmware.com.
Getting Started with VMware Player ! Appliance view – Virtual machine appliances can now be preconfigured to display an appliance view. A virtual appliance is a pre‐installed and preconfigured application and operating system environment that runs on any standard x86 desktop or server in a virtual machine—for example, a Web server application with a browser‐based console.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide Installing and Running VMware Player The following sections give instructions for installing, configuring, and starting VMware Player. For detailed instructions on using VMware Player features, see the online help provided in VMware Player. To view the online help on Linux, choose Player>Help. To view the online help on Windows, choose VMware Player>Help. Installing VMware Player This section describes how to install VMware Player on Windows and Linux.
Getting Started with VMware Player c Change to the directory to which you copied the file: cd /tmp d Unpack the archive: tar zxpf VMware-.tar.gz e Change to the installation directory: cd vmware-player-distrib f Run the installation program: ./vmware-install.pl 6 g Press return to accept the default values at the prompts. h Press return (Yes) when prompted to run vmware-config.pl. i Skip to Step 7.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide Location of vmware-config.pl The installer places vmware-config.pl in /usr/bin. If /usr/bin is not in your default path, run the program with the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Starting VMware Player This section describes how to start VMware Player. To start VMware Player and run a virtual machine 1 To open VMware Player: ! Choose VMware Player from the Start>Programs menu in Windows or from the corresponding program menu in a Linux X windows session.
Getting Started with VMware Player Uninstalling VMware Player The following sections give instructions for uninstalling VMware Player on Windows and Linux hosts. To uninstall VMware Player on a Windows host other than Vista 1 In the Control Panel, open Add/Remove Programs. 2 Select the entry for VMware Player and click Remove. 3 Follow the on‐screen instructions. To uninstall VMware Player on a Windows Vista host 1 Go to Start>Control Panel>Programs>Programs and Features> Uninstall a program.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide ! Windows 2000 Server SP3, SP4 Windows 2000 Professional, SP3, SP4 Windows 2000 Advanced Server, SP3, SP4 A Web browser is required for the Help system.
Getting Started with VMware Player SUSE Linux 9.2, SP1) SUSE Linux 9.1 — stock 2.6.4‐52 SUSE Linux 9.0 — stock 2.4.21‐99 SUSE Linux 8.2 — stock 2.4.20 ! Ubuntu Linux 6.10 Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Ubuntu Linux 5.04 A Web browser is required for the Help system. Linux 64-Bit Host Operating Systems Supported distributions and kernels are listed below. VMware Player might not run on systems that do not meet these requirements. ! Mandriva Linux 2006 and 2007 Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide Supported Guest Operating Systems VMware is continually adding support for new guest operating systems and new versions and updates of currently supported operating systems. This sections provides a simplified list of guest operating systems supported for virtual machines running in VMware Player.
Getting Started with VMware Player Linux 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems ! Mandriva Linux 2006 and 2007 ! Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server, Enterprise Server, and Workstation ! SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ! SUSE Linux ! Ubuntu Linux Novell NetWare 32-Bit Guest Operating System See the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide for version details about this operating system, at http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/.
VMware Player Getting Started Guide operating systems. You can download the 64‐bit processor check utility from http://www.vmware.com/download. 18 VMware, Inc.
