EasyVMX!: Create Virtual Machine

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EasyVMX! creates virtual machines to run in VMware Player.

All you need to do is fill in the four green fields in the form below, and click "Create Virtual Machine".

The other fields are for customization of your config file. See the tutorial for more info.
It is perfectly safe to go with the defaults.

♦♦♦ Basic Settings - Instructions ♦♦♦

Note! The green fields are required!

Fill in the name for your virtual machine, select OS, memory and CPUs.
If you select a 64-bit operating system as GuestOS, the virtual machine will not run on 32-bit computers!

If you choose 2 CPUs, the virtual machine will not run on single-CPU computers! (VMware Player 2.0 has experimental support for more than 1 CPU.)

Change the Power ON / Power OFF behaviour to suit your needs.

Description, Long Name and URL are free text fields. Use them as you want...

Virtual Hardware

Virtual Machine Name:
Select GuestOS:
Memory Size:
# of CPUs:

Power ON / Power OFF

Power ON:	Power ON:	Power OFF:

Virtual Machine Description

Virtual Machine Description:
Virtual Machine Long Name:
Virtual Machine URL:

♦♦♦ Network Configuration - Instructions ♦♦♦

"NAT": shares your computers address.
"Bridged": gives your virtual machine a separate address.
"Host Only": only gives network access to your computer.

"VirtualDevice": Intel® PRO/1000 and vlance is supported on most operating systems, vmxnet is VMware's network card.
You need VMware Tools to get the driver for vmxnet.
Use Intel® PRO/1000 for Windows Vista.

"Wake-on-LAN": Enables Wake-on-LAN for the specified network interface card.
"Remote Display": Enables VNC remote display on your virtual machine. Password protection is off.
"VNC Port": Select port number for the remote display.

Network Interface Cards

Device	Enabled	Connection Type	VirtualDevice	Wake-on-LAN	Remote Display	VNC Port
Ethernet0:
Ethernet1:					n/a	n/a

♦♦♦ Disk Configuration - Instructions ♦♦♦

Note! The required green field decides your disk size!

"Floppy Disk Drive": Enable this if you want access to your floppy drive. Use Auto Detect, or select device/drive letter.

"CDROM #1": This is your physical CDROM. Use Auto Detect, or select device/drive letter. The option "Exclusive" reserves the drive exclusively for your virtual machine.
"CDROM #2": The second CDROM is for ISO-images.

"Disk #1": Select the size of your virtual disk.
"Disk #2": If you want a second disk, activate it and select disk size.
"SCSI?": Check this for SCSI disk, uncheck for IDE. Use SCSI for performance or IDE for backwards compatibility.

TIP: For improved Windows Vista performance, use SCSI!

Shared Folder: Enable to activate. Create C:\easyvmxfolder on your Windows host, ~/easyvmxfolder on your Linux host. (~ is your home dir)

Floppy Disk Drive

Device	Enabled	Floppy Device
Floppy Disk Drive:

CDROM Drives

Device	Enabled	File Name	Exclusive	Device Type
CDROM #1:				Physical CDROM
CDROM #2:			n/a	CDROM Image (.iso)

Hard Disk Drives

Device	Enabled	Disk Size / Shared Folder Name	SCSI?	Device Type	Disk Mode
Disk #1:				Disk Image (.vmdk)	Persistent
Disk #2:				Disk Image (.vmdk)	Persistent
Shared Folder:			n/a	Shared folder	n/a

♦♦♦ Sound and I/O-Ports Configuration - Instructions ♦♦♦

These are the settings for sound, USB, serial and parallel ports (Input/Output ports).

USB Autoconnect is disabled, to prevent your virtual machine from taking over essential USB devices.
You may want to disable USB, Serial and Parallel ports when installing Vista.

Changing any of these options will otherwise limit the functionality of your virtual machine.

Sound and I/O-Ports

Device	Enabled	Options
Soundcard:		n/a - Autodetect
USB:
Serial Port 1:
Serial Port 2:
Parallel Port:

DirectX - Experimental!!!

DO NOT ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
This option will enable the experimental 3-D graphics acceleration in your virtual machine.
DirectX will be done in hardware, while OpenGL is done by the processor.

This option requires (at least) a correctly configured 3-D graphics card and VMware Tools.

Experimental option	Enabled
3-D Graphics Acceleration

EasyVMX!: Create Virtual Machine

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