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I'm feeling really dumb asking this, but VMWare Server has stumped me.
I've installed VWware Server 2.02 on Windows Vista. I want to install XP in a virtual machine.
All instructions start with 'Launch VMWare and create a new disk image'
I'm completely stumped on what I'm supposed to do to launch VMWare. I don't have a VMWare app in my start menu (I do have 'Manage Virtual Networks' and 'VMWare Server Home Page'. The latter logs me into a local web site with a username/pwd prompt (I don't recall setting a username/pwd upon installation).
Within the app folder I have bunch of exe's...all of which launch a command line script or give me a 'this should not be invoked directly' message.
Bad install or (more likely) am I missing the obvious?
1Wow. Yea, it doesn't help that nearly every tutorial out there uses screen shots of a windows app. Thanks for the help! I'm in and I think I have a virtual machine built. Now I just need to figure out how to get windows on it... ;o) – DA. – 2009-11-29T18:11:25.043
Use your Windows disk or get an ISO with Windows - mount this in the virtual optical drive and install it the same way as you would in a normal computer! – William Hilsum – 2009-11-29T18:13:19.657
Well, I think I'm giving up on Virtual Server. I finally got the disk image made and launched it, but I can not get the IE plugin installed to actually interact with it to get windows installed. Seems to be a problem some have. Switching to Virtual box... – DA. – 2009-11-29T18:32:31.873