I have try'd to get VM working but no bannana,i can not install the small xp,it asks for driveA(floppy)but i directed to the cd-rom drive but for some reson it will not install,it allways keeps asking for driveA,i dont understand it,i try'd for 3 days but it keeps asking for driveA,anybody got an idea.
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try removing it in the virtual machine's settings. That's what I've always done, because there is no use having a floppy drive.
A wolf in wolves clothing.
Yea, go to home, then click on the drive A thing, and uncheck the connect at start up.
or there is a remove button along the bottom of the window, that's what I always do.
A wolf in wolves clothing.
Once i got the VM machine up and running, ill remove the audio, usb, cd and floppy.. If you leave them installed, they actually use resources.
Ok, 2 questions: How do you remove the floppy usb all that stuff, and has anyone used vmware on a K6-2? When I try to load it, it says that you need a i686 compatible processor.
Power off the VM.. then goto EDIT VM.. only thing i keep is the hd, ram and ethernet. all the other bs gets axed. If youre using VM Ware 5.0, i suggest making a team. This way, one click and they all power on for you with a delay if you like.Originally Posted by moddolicous
Thanks haltech. Also, if I'm installing linux and it asks to format, it only applies to the vmware, right?
If the format dialog box is within the VMWare main window then yep.
Just make sure you have assigned space first. I found that the formatting routine trying to juggle space on you HD within VM can be flakey... Lost a partition (Got it back though)
I always use Partition Magic (Damn good investment), to create a space beforehand (Non-formatted), applicable to what I'm doing... 200MB usually does it for a Stripped Down DIMES install
Last edited by InSanCen; 12-08-2005 at 11:04 PM.
Excellent guide thewildblue!!!Just fooling around with VM and used your guide to get my feet wet. Pretty cool concept.
Thanks Jeff. Hope you get your VMs setup nicely.
On a side note has anyone else found that a clone of a VM to time out after a certain period as I have a couple of 2000pro installs on Vm 5.5 that are reporting a certain number of days available.
Woot just noticed 1000th post !
Damn you twb... it's all your fault... I just ordered 4Gb of RAM because of you!!!
Now I just have to start DIMIN' for XS.org.
[playing iron man]yes! we're gonna be #1!![/playing iron man]Damn you twb... it's all your fault... I just ordered 4Gb of RAM because of you!!!
Now I just have to start DIMIN' for XS.org.
Iron Man... I knew there was a reason I liked you Jesse!
(Hopefully I won't regret this purchase in the morning... been hitting the "Holiday Cheer" while wrapping an un-Godly amount of presents this evening...)
I hope one of those presents is for me Jeff. Lol. So you are definetly gonna help dime for xs?? (What would the verb be?? D2OL & FaD was fold/crunch, but since dimes doesnt use cpu power, what would the verb be? Dime?)
Be glad to have you back onboard again Jeff. With 4 GB thats alot of VMs.
I dont mind being blamed, as long as your wife doesnt know it was my fault......lol
With your current score that would drop you in at 7th on the Team just below modd.
I got a question: What do I need to isntall vmware tools? For some reason it wont install. Its Windows XP Professional and I deleted unnecesary stuff using nlite. Maybe I got rid of 1 too many things.
I noticed the time out too, TWB. I've been trying to get some DSL VMs going, but does anyone know how to make clones with VMXWizard and VMPlayer?
A wolf in wolves clothing.
Has anyone figured out how to run Vmware on a k6-2?? They say that it doesnt support it.
I have a stack of K6-2's and even a K6-3 but no MB for them. I dont see why it wouldnt support it. Maybe they dont support the 3Dnow! instructions on the K6. Have you bothered to install VM on it yet?
I tried once, but I did it fast so maybe I can change something. Heres the link to where it says it doesnt support it:
http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/end...hp?p_faqid=967
Alright, on your vm, do you run logical disk manager?? I turned off most of the stuff I thought I could and I still get ~60mb used. I think logical diskmanager uses alot, so I think disabling that would greatly help. BTW, I finally got a win install to fit under 600mb
I'm not the only one that runs vmware. Do you guys run logical diskmanager or not??
i only run VMWare player, which has no such options
In windows I mean. In windows, there is a service called logical disk manager. Go to run and type services.msc. It will show what services are running. All logical disk manager does is optimize the hard drive when idle, so I think its useless, but I wanna get someone elses opinion first.
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