create virtual machine free using easyvmx.com

As I have said in my previous example of creating a virtual machine for Bayanihan Linux Server 2006: creating virtual machines for testing is quite easy but it is also much easier if you let easyvmx.com do it for you.

First it has option for:

1. Easy Vmx
2.  Simple
3. Expert with all of it’s option included.

At the end of the creation you will be prompted with the created .vmx file also a download link for the needed vmx files to use for your virtual machine..

It’s so easy as easyvmx.com. Try it here.

my first dip in virtualization (virtual machine) using Bayanihan linux server

This post can also be named: install any operating system as a virtual machine.

Tools:

1. qemu-img.exe – from Fabrice Bellard
2. vmplayer – vmware.com
3. iso file of operating system you want to install – bayanihan linux server in my case.

Links:

1. http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmx… – .vmx file creator
2. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Steps:

1. Create a pseudo hard disk drive using qemu-image.exe. If you have installed it on program files folder then the command should look like

   c:\program files\Qemu\qemu-img.exe create blserver.vmdk 2G

   That would create a 2 gigabytes of hard disk drive data.Found in a website by John Bokma is a tutorialthat lets you run windows xp on an xp based system :D

2. You can place the blserver.vmdk in any place you like. I have put mine in c:\blserver directory
3. Goto link #1 to create your vmx file. Here’s mine. config.version = “8″
   virtualHW.version = “3″
   ide0:0.present = “TRUE”
   ide0:0.filename = “blserver.vmdk”
   memsize = “256″
   MemAllowAutoScaleDown = “FALSE”
   ide1:0.present = “TRUE”
   ide1:0.fileName = “bls2k6.iso”
   ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-image”
   ide1:0.autodetect = “TRUE”
   floppy0.present = “FALSE”
   ethernet0.present = “TRUE”
   usb.present = “TRUE”
   sound.present = “TRUE”
   sound.virtualDev = “es1371″
   displayName = “Bayanihan Linux Server”
   guestOS = “linux”
   nvram = “blserver.nvram”
   MemTrimRate = “-1″ ide0:0.redo = “”
   ethernet0.addressType = “generated”
   uuid.location = “56 4d d8 d7 29 7a 76 18-d9 60 ec 44 af 20 1c 13″
   uuid.bios = “56 4d d8 d7 29 7a 76 18-d9 60 ec 44 af 20 1c 13″
   ethernet0.generatedAddress = “00:0c:29:20:1c:13″
   ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = “0″

   tools.syncTime = “TRUE”
   ide1:0.startConnected = “TRUE”

   uuid.action = “create”

   checkpoint.vmState = “”

4. Please set your memsize less than your actual physical memory size. For reasons you might have known by now.
5. Install vmplayer now. You could do this step earlier than this.
6. Double click the .vmx file that you have created. I have late captured the screen. Figure #1 shows initialization after the installation of the server. (by this time im taking some capture onthe system itself)
7. Proceed with the installation.

figure #1

bl server booting:

figure #2

bl server login:

figure #3:

inside bl server

Projects:

Install fedora core 6’s 5 cds using above instruction but using:

ide1:0.present = “TRUE”
ide1:0.fileName = “fc6disk1.iso”
ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-image”
ide2:0.present = “TRUE”
ide2:0.fileName = “fc6disk2.iso”
ide2:0.deviceType = “cdrom-image”

— etc.

Don’t know if it’ll work though.. If you do experiment and it worked please email me rudy @ egenias dot info

slackware virtual machine

Hey guys, want to try out slackware and you don’t just have the spare hdd to do that? try this one.

http://vmwhere.net/

And if you need the necessary tools, kindly see my other post on virtualization.

Don’t forget to comment on my post if you have made milestones. :D

online vmx creator, virtual machine downloads, virtualization

Tinkered with the creation of vmware playable operating system and found these links:

• http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html <online vmx file creator
• http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1176110,00.html <tutorial to create a pseudo hard disk drive for the player
• http://www.vmware.com/ <download vmplayer here to view your installation(s)
• http://www.oszoo.org/download.php <free operating system vmware playable

Hopefully you’d create a virtual machine on that one. I will post my experiments on this soon. Keep tune.