Making & Running a VMware Fusion Linux VM
The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step and Visually How-to Create/Make a New Virtual Machine with a Linux Live ISO on VMware Fusion 6+ for Mac OS X.
VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion let anyone run Linux, Windows and hundreds of other Operating Systems on a Mac, without burning OS ISO’s and Rebooting.
VMware Fusion 6+ come with the ability to Run Hypervisor Applications such as VMware Workstation inside the virtual machine.
So You can install VMware Workstation in Linux a virtual machine, and then for Example use Workstation to create a Nested Windows Virtual Machine.
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How-to Download Linux Distros ISO’s
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Select New from the Top Left Corner
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Then simply Drag & Drop ISO into Window
Click on Continue.
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Next Choose the Linux’s Flavor
This doesn’t matter and if you just Do Not Find your OS then choose a Linux X.Y Kernel…
Click on Continue.
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On Finish Click the Customize Settings Button
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Set the VM’s Name
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Select Processors & Memory
Set a Reasonable Memory Size, usually between 1Gb and 2GB. It depends from your OS’s Type…
Click on Show All on the Top Left corner.
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Select Hard Disk
Set a Enough Big Maximum Hard Drive Size (The Disk will be Auto-Growing and so it Don’t take initially all that Space.)
Here a 64Gb Amount is choosen…
Click on Apply and after Close the Window.
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Then You’ll be Able to Run the New VM :)
Simply Click on the big Play Arrow
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