Happy Learning Linux Virtual Machine VMware

After studying linux virtual machines for a long time, I would like to share with you that you have certainly gained a lot after reading this article. I hope this article will teach you more things. Due to learning needs, my machine has always been a dual-system boot (Win98 and RHLinux9.0 ), every time you switch the system, you will inevitably need to restart the machine, and then select the system to be started from the GRUB Startup menu, which is very troublesome; since I used the vmwarevm software, I have no longer worried about frequent computer restarts.

After simple registration, you can download a 30-day evaluation version (The Trial serial number will be sent to the email you used during registration, so be sure to enter the correct version ). Currently, this software runs on windows and Linux platforms. Because it is mainly used in Linux, the RPM installation package is downloaded, which is about 25.1 MB in size, the version number is 4.05. Installation is very simple: After logging on as root, double-click the downloaded installation package in KDE, or execute rpm-ivh/path/VMware-workstation-4.0.5-6030.i386.rpm on the command line. If no error message is displayed, the installation is completed. You also need to configure before you officially run the Virtual Machine (otherwise an error message will be prompted), enter the VMware-config.pl in the terminal to start configuring (mainly about the license agreement and network configuration ), all the way to yes.

After entering KDE, right-click the desktop-run, enter VMware and press enter to view its running interface, which is very simple. Click New Virtual Machine or press Ctrl + N to enter the setting wizard for the New Virtual Machine. There are two preset Typical (Typical) and Custom (Custom ). Select Custom and click the Next button to go to the image of selecting the customer's operating system type. From the list, we can see that there are many systems supported by VMware, even the latest Win2003 is supported. After selecting the system type, continue to Next. Here you can name the Virtual Machine and select the storage location of the virtual machine configuration file. Continue to next and start to set the memory size of the customer's operating system. Here, we need to weigh that if it is too large, it will affect the operation speed of the main operating system, and if it is too small, it will affect the operation speed of the customer's operating system. In the following network type settings, click Next. Because multiple systems have been installed, select use a physical disk in the select disk dialog box (if you select creat a new virtual disk at this time, at last, the system prompts you to insert a boot disk to install the boot disk ). Confirm the warning information and select a physical disk. My system is on the first hard disk, so the device is/dev/hda (the second hard disk is/dev/hdb ), all partitions of the entire disk are used. Next, select a location to save the disk configuration information. The default path is retained. -- After so many Next operations, we finally see Finish.

In the help menu, enter the serial number received in the email and click start this virtual machine to start the virtual machine. You can see the GRUB Startup Menu after the logo of VMware, but it is already in VMware! Choose to start Win98, and the familiar blue sky and white clouds will pop up. Soon I got to the desktop, ghost. How did I find a lot of new hardware? A closer look, really make people laugh: My Apollo Pro266 chipset into the Intel 443BX, D-LINK530TX card into the amd pcnet Family Ethernet, sound card into the unknown multimedia equipment, all require installation driver. In any case, I'm a dumb. Follow the Win98 prompts to insert the system CD, copy the file, and restart it. (Note that this is only the Win98 restart of the VM, but the RH9.0 is not restarted in actual operation ), after entering Win98 again, the NIC has been installed, but none of the sound cards have been installed (my machine is equipped with a dual sound card), it will not help to install the sound card on the installation CD. When you enter the Windows desktop, the VMware Task Bar prompts that VMware tools has not been installed. Click File-install VMware tools in the main menu to install the software in the client operating system Win98, as well as the driver of the VMware svga ii adapter, the virtual machine time can be synchronized with the master operating system through the software installed.

After all this is done, you can finally try the virtual Win98. Browse webpages, go to QQ ...... No problem (9). Even PhotoShop 7.0 works well. It looks really good. This is a Windows running in a Linux virtual machine. VMware's main menu power also provides suspend, reset, power on/off and other functions for virtual machines. After clicking the full screen display button on the VMware menu, there will be no difference with the real Win98. Who will know that this is virtualized Through VMware in a Linux virtual machine? The only difference is that it feels a little slow (after all, two systems are running at the same time ).

Of course, this is not a weakness. The first is hardware identification error. Maybe it is a "Virtual Machine", except for the Motherboard chipset, Nic, sound card, and video card mentioned above, when I enter Directx, I also find that my CPU has shrunk from 1067 MHZ to 933 MHZ. I cannot use DirectDraw acceleration, Direct3D acceleration, and AGP texture acceleration. Next, go to the virtual Win98 "my computer" and find that dual hard disk and dual optical drive have become single hard disk and single optical drive. However, this is not surprising. During the linux Virtual Machine setup process, we can see that four IDE devices cannot be supported at the same time. Once again, when you copy a file in the primary operating system (Linux) virtual and to the client operating system (Win98) partition, you cannot instantly refresh the copied file in the virtual Win98. Also, when I shut down virtual Win98 and quit Linux, I was told that the device was incorrect and the desktop resolution was fixed at 640 × 480, only 16 colors are displayed, and the update rate is 60 HZ. When the control panel is opened, the system prompts that the operation is illegal and the system is on the machine. Fortunately, after the registry is restored, everything is displayed normally. If the control panel fails, delete C: \ windows \ control. [MMCPL] VMControlPanel in ini. cpl = D: \ program files \ VMware \ VMCONTROLPANEL. CPL disappears later. It is obvious that creat a new virtual disk has the advantage of brand-new installation when you create a VM.

In general, as a Linux Virtual Machine Software, VMware is very good. Although there are still more or less problems, it has provided a convenient and shortcut for cross-platform operations, this makes it easier for us to move between different systems.

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