After a long learning linux virtual machine, then and share with you, after reading this article you are sure a lot of harvest, I hope this will teach you more things. Since the learning needs, my machine has been double boot (Win98 and RHLinux9.0), each time switching system will inevitably have to restart the machine, and then choose from the GRUB boot menu to boot the system, it is trouble; since after using the VMware virtual machine software I no longer worry about the frequent restart the computer.
After a simple registration you can download after a 30-day evaluation version of the (trial serial number will be sent to your registered e-mail use, so be sure to fill in correctly). Currently the software has run on the windows platform and Linux platform in two versions, because I mainly use Linux, so download the RPM package format, size is about 25.1MB, version number is 4.05. Installation is simple: to root after logging in to KDE, double-click to download the installation package, or in the command line rpm-ivh / path/VMware-workstation-4.0.5-6030.i386.rpm can. If no errors, then explained that it had to complete the installation. Before running the virtual machine in the official needs to look first configuration (otherwise it will prompt an error message), the terminal input VMware-config.pl start configuration (mainly on licensing agreements and network configuration), yes all the way down on it.
After entering KDE, right-click the desktop - Run, type VMware and Enter can see it running on the interface, and very simple. Click New Virtual Machine or press Ctrl + N to enter the new virtual machine setup wizard, which has two pre-Typical (Typical) and Custom (Custom). Select Custom, click the Next button to enter the selected guest operating system type of picture you can see from the list of systems supported by VMware is more and more, with the latest Win2003 support. After choosing a type of system, to Next, where you can name for the virtual machine, select the virtual machine configuration file storage location. Continue to next, began to set the memory size of the client operating system, need to weigh here, too much will affect the speed of the main operating system, too small to affect the client operating system will run faster. The next type of network settings directly Next the past. As already installed a number of systems, so choose Disk dialog box, select the use a physical disk (if this time select creat a new virtual disk, then finally start the guest operating system when prompted to insert the boot disk to a fresh install ). Confirm the warning message and select the physical disk, my system-wide in the first hard disk, so equipment selection / dev / hda (the second hard disk is / dev / hdb), and use all the disk partitions. Next choose a location to save just after the disk configuration information, you can leave the default path. - Next, after so many, at last, the Finish.
In the help menus in the e-mail received serial number lost in, click start this virtual machine to start the virtual machine. After VMware's logo in the GRUB boot menu can see, but is already in VMware in it! Select start Win98, the familiar blue and white surface on the front. Quickly to the desktop, Huh, how to find a lot of new hardware? A closer look, really a dilemma: My Apollo Pro266 chipset into Intel 443BX, D-LINK530TX card into AMD PCNET Family Ethernet, unknown sound card into multimedia devices, all require the installation of drivers. Anyway, I am a fool in accordance with the Win98 CD into the system prompt, copy the complete file after the restart (note that Win98 can only restart the virtual machine actually running RH9.0 does not restart yo), re-enter Win98, NIC have it installed, sound card but a failed to install on (my machine is equipped with dual sound card), with the sound card's installation CD to install did not help. When entering Windows Desktop, VMware's task bar had not been prompted to install VMware tools, click on the main menu in the File-install VMware tools, the client operating system to install the software in Win98, as well as VMware SVGA II adapter driver, through the installation Virtual machine software can make the time and the main operating system synchronized.
After the completion of all this, finally try a Win98 virtual out. Browse the Web, the QQ ... ... there is no problem (Figure 9), and even PhotoShop 7.0 has a good run up, and looks really good, this is the Linux virtual machine running Windows ah. VMware's power also provided the main menu of the virtual machine suspend, reset, power on / off functions. In the VMware menu, click the button on the full screen display with real Win98 since there is no distinction of any kind, and who knows this is a Linux virtual machine through VMware virtual out? The only thing that is felt at a slower pace (after all, the two a system running ah).
Certainly not flawless no. The first is the hardware recognition error, perhaps originally a "virtual machine" owes something, in addition to the above mentioned motherboard chipset, network card, sound card, graphics card outside the enter my CPU Directx also found diminished by the 1067 MHZ to 933 MHZ, can not be used DirectDraw acceleration, Direct3D acceleration, AGP texture acceleration functions. Next, enter the virtual Win98 "My Computer" and found that dual-drive, dual optical drive into a single hard drive, single drive. But this is not surprising, in the process of setting linux on virtual machine can not see the same support 4 IDE devices. Again, the main operating system (Linux) operating system to customers in the virtual and the (Win98) partition copy file, not in real time in a virtual Win98 refresh to see the file has been copied. Also, when I close the virtual Win98 exit to restart the machine into Linux Win98 real time, was told the display device error, the desktop resolution is fixed at 640 × 480, can only display 16 colors, refresh rate of 60HZ, open the Control Panel is prompted illegal operation and when the machine; Fortunately restore the registry after all the normal desktop display, remove the control panel fault in the C: windowscontrol.ini in [MMCPL] VMControlPanel.cpl = D: PROGRAM FILESVMwareVMCONTROLPANEL.CPL later disappeared, apparently also from here create a virtual machine to see when the previous selection creat a new virtual disk to the benefits of a clean install.
Overall, as a Linux virtual machine software, VMware is very good, although there is still more or less some problems, but it has provided a cross-platform convenience and shortcuts, so that we can more easily systems in different surf.