VMware Workstation 6.0 

http://blog.linuxoss.com/2007/01/10/vmware-workstation-60-public-beta-with-tango/

Workstation 6.0 on linux sports a brand-new, super clean-looking, slick, icon-themeable Tango face

Workstation 6.0 includes exciting new features, such as:

documented on: 2008-05-21

Bootable ISO? 

Newsgroups: vmware.for-windowsnt.configuration
Date: 2002-02-21 15:20:15 PST
> I'm trying to simulate a bootable CD by substituting a virtual CD (ISO
> image).

Using the Configuration Editor for the CD drive the Connection section allows you to point it to an ISO image on the host. This works fine for me.

Bill Fischofer

Bootable ISO? 

When you power on the VM if you go into Setup with F2 you can shuffle the device boot order in the BIOS. Are you saying that if you put the CD-ROM ahead of the hard drive the hard drive still boots first? If yes, I'd say you found a bug.

Bill Fischofer

Bootable ISO? 

> > When you power on the VM if you go into Setup
> > with F2 you can shuffle the device boot order in...
>
> This is very strange. I have done this and it's worked
> fine for me before. But I just tried it and now it's not
> working any more. I have no idea why!

Silly me! I had turned off the "Connect at power on" checkbox for the CD-ROM drive!!

I turned that checkbox back on, and the VM boots from the CD-ROM ISO image as expected.

Mike

emulating a floppy 

Newsgroups: vmware.for-linux.installation
Date: 2000/03/12
> It would be great if vmware allowed EMULATING a floppy by
> pointing it at a floppy image file.

It already does exactly this. Granted, it's not immediately obvious how to do it (I too had to post on this list to find out how).

  1. Start your virtual machine

  2. Click the "devices" menu item

  3. Click the "floppy0" entry

  4. Click the "Disconnect and Edit" entry

  5. Change the "type" dropdown from "device" to "file"

  6. Enter the file's name in the edit control

  7. Click OK or Save

  8. Click the "devices" menu again

  9. Click "connect"

and there you go. I regularly boot a VM from a floppy image this way.

Eric Hanchrow

How do I create ISO images of floppies that I can then mount? 

Newsgroups: vmware.for-windowsnt.experimental
Date: 2001-09-07 12:23:52 PST

Well, I assume you mean floppy image file, for there's no such thing as ISO image of floppy.

You can use any disk dump utility to create one. rawread, rawwritewin, WinImage, etc.

You can find rawwritewin at: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm

I don't have URL for other tools, sorry.

Alternatively, you can diskcopy from inside a VM. Copy the contents of actural floppy disk to a blank floppy image file and you'll have an image of the original floppy disk.

Ken

How do I create ISO images of floppies that I can then mount? 

I prefer to use WinImage; visit http://www.winimage.com for more information. WinImage's uncompressed .IMA files can simply be renamed to .FLP and VMware will use them w/o any problems. You can keep the .IMA file type, but then you have to tell VMware to explicitly look for *.IMA files when searching for a floppy image to mount.

Now, if you want to make a .ISO image file from an existing CDROM then the DiscDump [DDUMP] utility is one that I highly recommend. You can find a link to it on the Daemon-Tools downloads page. Visit http://www.daemon-tools.com and look under the downloads or links page to find a link to the current DiscDump.

If you want to make a .ISO image file from a collection of files on your hard drive then you are going to need a CDROM burning software package. Some of the packages produce simple .ISO files [e.g. Adaptec Easy CD Creator] while others create their own proprietary image files [e.g. Nero]. The CDMage utility (http://cdmage.cjb.net) can be used to convert these files to .ISO format in most cases. In any case, you assemble your compilation of files and instead of burning a CDROM you choose to create an image on disk. You could use this image to burn the CDROM at a later time, or you can just choose to mount the .ISO file in VMware [in a guest system] or on directly on the host with a tool like Daemon-Tools.

Chuck Chopp