Newsgroups: vmware.for-windowsnt.configuration Date: 2002-02-21 15:20:15 PST
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:
Support for Windows Vista - Use Windows Vista as host operating system
Multiple monitor display - You can configure a VM to span multiple monitors, or multiple VMs to each display on separate monitors
Integrated Virtual Debugger - Workstation integrates with Visual Studio and Eclipse so you can deploy, run, and debug programs in a VM directly from your preferred IDE
Automation APIs (VIX API 2.0) - You can write scripts and programs to automate VM testing
Headless mode - You can run VMs in the background without the Workstation UI
Support for USB 2.0 devices - You can now use peripherals that require high-speed performance in your VMs, such as MP3 Players and fast storage devices
documented on: 2008-05-21
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
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
> > 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
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).
Start your virtual machine
Click the "devices" menu item
Click the "floppy0" entry
Click the "Disconnect and Edit" entry
Change the "type" dropdown from "device" to "file"
Enter the file's name in the edit control
Click OK or Save
Click the "devices" menu again
Click "connect"
and there you go. I regularly boot a VM from a floppy image this way.
Eric Hanchrow
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
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