:::.. VMware Stuff ..:::

Dude.... i was doing this for my lovely Sister.... just to help her.... then after a while was thinking why not uploading this in my Blog too...... May be it might help to some Novice......!!!

Download VMware:

1. Go to this site (This is the official site for VMware: http://www.vmware.com/download/
2. Scroll down the page and try to find “VMware Workstation” under “Desktop Virtualization Products”
3. Click on Download, it will redirect the page to: http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/
4. Now (plz) read a bit.....under Download VMware workstation you will see that they are recommending you to register for an evaluation
5. So click on the link for evaluation and do the registration ;-)
6. By the way, the window for registration will redirect you to the following link; http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/eval.html
7. Now click on “Register for your free 30-day evaluation license” at the top of your window
8. Though u r a New Customers so the right side link is for u.....click on “Register” button.
9. Now for the registration these are the important points: your email add, product host platform-choose the windows, timeframe for a possible purchase-choose for 30 days, how many license-choose 1, how do u plan to use-choose development and testing.
10. Now click on continue....they will redirect you to the download page and will send a password to ur email account by saying GOOD LUCK ;-)
11. Click the link for the download. It will bring u to the download agreement page. Scroll down the page till the end......u will see two buttons...”Yes” or “No”. So click “Yes”
12. Thats it......it will bring u to the page where u will get the .exe file for VMware ;-)
13. Finally click the link namely- Vmware-workstation-6.0.0-45731.exe
14. And download it on ur Desktop........by the way give me Thanks for everything ;-)

Install VMware and Fedora Core-5:

(Step-1)

1. Double click on VMware .exe file
2. Click on “Run” then “continue”
3. “VMware Product Installation” -window you will see
4. It will bing you to the window for VMware workstation 6-”Welcome to the Installation wizard for VMware workstation”
5. Click the “Next” button to proceed
6. Don't change the setup type “Typical”- Just click on “Next”
7. Then for Destination folder, keep the default one and click “Next”
8. For “Configure Shortcuts”......I selected only the Desktop one and clicked “Next”
9. Finally proceed with the Installation....
10. At one stage it will ask the “Registration Information”, where under the serial number text box you have to put the 30-days trial license
11. Then press “Enter” and thus “finish” the installation by RESTARTING your PC

(Step-2)

1. You will find a VMware Workstation icon on your Desktop, where you have to double click
2. The “License Agreement” window will come where you are bound to choose “Yes” option followed by pressing “OK” button
3. It is recommended to read the “Tip of the Day” (At least once)
4. Congratulation !!! You are now ready to install any OS in your VMware workstation

(Step-3)

1. Put the Fedora installation CD into your CD-ROM
2. On VMware Workstation window, under the “Home” tab you can see an icon name “New Virtual Machine”
3. Click on that link to start “New virtual machine wizard” followed by clicking the “Next”
4. For selecting the Appropriate configuration-keep the “Typical” setup
5. For selecting a guest OS, first choose the Linux option and then from the drop down “version” menu choose “Other Linux 2.6.x kernel”
6. Click “Next” and then change the name of your Virtual Machine to “Fedora Core”
7. For the location-keep the default path and then click “Next”
8. For the Network connection keep the bridged networking
9. You will see “Specify Disk Capacity”....but no need to change anything....except followed by “Next”
10. You will see a new window by saying “Virtual machine created successfully”
11. Finally you will see a sub-window called “Fedora Core” (though i have chosen that name for my Virtual Machine)
12. Under the Commands tab, click the “start this virtual machine” link
13. It will show an informative window. Choose the “Never show this hint again” and then press “OK”
14. Whatever window comes in front of you just click “Ok” and the wait ;-)
15. Bring your cursor into the VMware window area (black area) where you can see the Fedora Core setup menu.....just click on it and wait
16. Fedora core 5 -installation will start
17. It will ask to test the CD-media........whatever i just skipped that portion and pressed
18. Well now one question.......Leave that VMware stuff......can u click any icon or button or anything else from your real window? Just try to locate your cursor outside of your virtual machine......can u do that? .........hmm......Remember, every time to release your cursor you have to press “Ctrl+Alt”
19. It may ask to setup driver manually.......just skipped that portion
20. The Fedora core release Notes window will come where you have to click “Next” button
21. Choose the language ENGLISH then click Next
22. Select the appropriate keyboard for the system as U.S ENGLISH then click “Next”
23. A warning window may appear about partition table......and some ....bla....bla.....just click on “Yes” to proceed
24. A new window will come where you will see some of the lines as follows: “Installation requires partitioning of your hard drive. By default.........to use this or create your own.” Look don't worry too much about it.....nothing will happen with your Real Machine....Remember that u r here installing a Virtual Machine.......so if any problem occurs then it will effect negatively only on your Virtual Machine
25. You may get another working message such like “You have chosen to remove all Linux partitions (and ALL DATA on them) on the following drives: /dev/sda. Are you sure you want to do this?”........Yaar........just click YES !!!
26. For “Network Device”-directly click “Next”
27. For Time setting.....well you can play around but i wanna click on “Next”
28. Give your root password and make it confirm
29. For the software installation preferences, keep the default option “Office and Productivity”
30. Now u have to wait for long.....because this is the final or ending stage for your Installation. Read all the instructions which come to you and when the Installation CD will come out automatically then just remove it and puss back your CD-ROM as like before by accepting the REBOOT option.

Congratulation !!!......You are done

Note: Do u know that you can capture the Video of your screen through VMware? Yap....thats the great feature this software is having and which is also very important for any of our IT research work to make a proper documentation or presentation.