Pritam Pebam

I’m making this post in the hope to reduce the doubts or understand the way how VMware Player works as a lot of people have their first hand experience trying out the new Google Chrome OS available for download as a virtual machine image.

This post is essential for undertanding how to create a Virutal Machine in VMware Player while the my next post will deal on how to run the Chrome Virtual Image using VMware Player 3.0 in particular.

So just follow the step by step process and you’ll end up with your virtual machine up and running! I’ve considered that you’ve already Downloaded the VMware Player and installed it on your system. If you’ve not done it yet, download WMware now (Needs registration but don’t worry it’s free!!)

Step 1:

Open VMware and the first “Welcome to VMware Player” window will pop up. Since this post is about “Creating a Virtual Machine”, let’s not talk about the other options on the list.

Directly click on the “Create a New Virtual Machine” on the top, highlighted with yellow and red arrow on the image.

Step 2:

From the choices

• Installer disc: It is use to create the VM from using a disc drive.
• Installer disc Image: It is use to create the VM from and disc image file (iso)
• I will install the operating system later: Use to create the VM directly from the fle

Choose the last one. (Pointed by the red arrow)

Step 3:

Select the appropiate Operating System and Version. For running Google Chrome, make sure you select Linux version Ubuntu.

Step 4:

Type in the name of the Operating System and select a path to from where the OS is to be run.

Step 5:

Specify Disk Capacity page, configure the capacity of the hard disk as appropriate. Then choose whether to store a virtual disk or between a Single file, which stores in a single file and Split virtual disk into 2 GB, which is divided into multiple data files, each file size is 2 GB finished, and then click Next

Step 6:

If you want to customize the settings, click “Customize hardware”, but if you want to customize the hardware settings, click “Finish”.

Step 7:

If you choose to Customize the hardwire settings, make the appropriate changes here. After you click OK here, you’ll get back to the earlier window and just click the “Finish” button on it.

Step 8:

The final window will be like what’s below. The VM we just created is on top of the list. Don’t get confused with the other VMs on the list as they are only just created while I was trying myself. Now at the bottom pointed by the blue arrow, you can either change the settings of the VM or play it to Open the OS.

Hope this clears up your doubt. Check back my next post to learn “How to Run Google Chrome OS in Vmware Player 3.0″.