last week the totally free VMware player was released. It lets you run online machines, however not produce them. [Faileas] contributed today’s how-to for producing your own online machines.
Programs needed to bring out hack:
Copy of VMware Player
Browser appliance or one more online machine(browser appliance is the smallest one, by size, as well as therefore I am utilizing that)
Notepad or other text editor
ISO picture or CD/floppy of FreeDOS (I’m utilizing the ripcord distribution) or MSDOS 7.1 would work as well, however i haven’t tried it yet.
Replacement OS (must have SCSI HDD support)
Once you’ve downloaded the browser appliance or whatever picture you mean to use, the very first step is to open up as well as edit the browser-appliance.vmx file. I utilized notepad for this, though any type of text editor ought to do.
I’d reccomend altering the settings as needed, though these are what i suggest. modification the value of memsize to 64 from 256. For many operating systems this is adequate as well as you can modification this later as needed.
Part 1: utilizing an ISO The picture i am utilizing has been configuration to utilize the physical CD-Rom drive of my system. Not truly desireable when you want to set up from a downloaded ISO. While utilizing daemontools, or a similar CD installing program is an option, a much more stylish technique would be to utilize VMware player’s own capability to checked out ISOs.
At this point i suggest saving as well as making a copy of the browser-appliance.vmx file, because it may be desireable to utilize a physical CD-Rom drive at a later point of time.
To do this replace: ide1:0.fileName = “auto detect” ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-raw”
with: ide1:0.fileName = “C:targetcd.iso” ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-image”
Where C:targetcd.iso is the place of the disk you mean to use. when this is done, save the edited vmx data as well as run it.
Part 2: eliminating the present OS
Now, at the startup screen press getaway as well as select to boot from the CD drive at the next screen. If all goes well, you ought to be greeted by where you ought to select to boot from CDrom. From there select to boot to the second choice “FreeDOS ** FAT32. At the next screen pick the very first option, to “boot with el toreto cd rom driver” (default) as well as then the second option, to run FreeDOS from CD command prompt.
now the fun part
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