Creating a New Virtual Machine

VMware provides a wizard to guide you in configuring and creating a virtual machine. This task guides you through the configuration choices.

Order of Task Steps

Note: The VMware graphic user interface varies with the host operating system and with releases. As a result, the names of icons and menu items, the wording of wizard screens, and even the order of the following configuration steps could differ from those you see with your VMware product.

Prerequisites

  • You have a VMware product installed on your host computer: for example, VMware Fusion for Mac OS X, or VMware Workstation for Windows.
  • You have downloaded the OpenIndiana installation file to your host computer.

Procedure

  1. Start the VMware product.
  2. Create a new virtual machine. You can use any of the following methods:
    • Click File > New Virtual Machine.
    • Click the plus (+) icon.
    This step does not actually create the virtual machine, but instead starts a wizard to specify the configuration of a virtual machine. The final step in this task applies that configuration to create the virtual machine.
  3. Determine the configuration type.
    In the New Virtual Machine Wizard, select a Custom configuration.
    Click Next to continue.
  4. Determine the hardware compatibility.
    For best results, use the default values.
    Click Next to continue.
  5. Choose OpenIndiana as the guest operating system.
    1. Select Installer disc image file (iso).
    2. Specify the location of the OpenIndiana ISO file, oi-dev-151a8-live-x86.iso.
      (You downloaded that ISO file in the previous task.)
    3. Specify the type of the guest operating system.
      If VMware cannot determine the type of the guest operating system, it requests that you specify it explicitly. Select Solaris and specify the version as Solaris 10 64-bit.
    Click Next to continue.
  6. Configure the parameters of the virtual machine.
    1. Name the virtual machine.
      Type a name for your virtual machine, and specify the file system location to store the image file. It is good practice to use the default location.
      Click Next to continue.
    2. Configure the processors.
      Configure a minimum of two total processor cores. Be sure to leave at least two free cores for the other activities of the host operating system and applications.
      Click Next to continue.
    3. Configure the memory size.
      For best results, use the default size, 2 GB. If resources are constrained, configure at least 1 GB.
      Click Next to continue.
    4. Select the network type.
      Select Use network address translation (NAT).
      Click Next to continue.
    5. Select the I/O controller type.
      Select LSI Logic.
      Click Next to continue.
  7. Configure the virtual disk.
    1. Select SCSI as the disk type.
      Click Next to continue.
    2. Select Create a new virtual disk.
      Click Next to continue.
    3. Specify 16 GB as the disk capacity.
    4. Select Split virtual disk into multiple files.
      Click Next to continue.
    5. Specify a base name for the disk virtual files.
      VMware computes a default base name from the virtual machine name.
      Click Next to continue.
  8. Click Finish to create the virtual machine.
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