Today I’m installing CentOS 5.1 on VMware Server as a test machine. I thought it could be helpful to some to know how to do this so here it is.First of all, if you don’t have VMware Server, you can get your free copy over at http://www.vmware.com/download/server/. I am currently running VMware Server 1.0.2 but you can get version 1.0.4 from their website. The host computer is running on an Intel Core 2 CPU at 1.86GHz with 2 gigabytes of RAM, a SATA hard disk and Windows XP SP2.
I won’t go into details about installing VMware Server, you can pretty much set it up with the default parameters.Creating The Virtual Machine
Since this is only a test machine, I don’t need much resource. Here are the settings for my virtual CentOS box:
- 512 MB RAM
- 12 GB SCSI hard disk
- 1 Processor
- Bridged ethernet adapter
- CD-ROM
I have allocated all the disk space at creation time to increase performance.
How To Install CentOS 5.1 on VMware Server - Part 2
3 responses so far ↓
1. Response by : Bill Klawitter on Jul 11, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Found your guidelines on Google. I’m trying to install Centos on VMware server (free version) 1.0.6.
The host machine is a Dell Latitude 630 with 3GB memory. The host OS is Windows Vista Business edition. When creating the VM it was necessary to click the OK button, and not the Cancel button, on the VMware Server Console with the local host option selected to enable the File>New>Virtual Machine menu option. For some reason it is disabled by default on the VMWare server install.
The VM has CD-ROM set to auto detect and the ethernet set to NAT.
2. Response by : Diego on Aug 14, 2008 at 9:33 am
What version of linux shall I choose at virtual centos creation time?
3. Response by : Stephane Brault on Aug 14, 2008 at 9:38 am
CentOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux so go with RHEL 4 or 5.
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