SUSE LINUX Enterprise Desktop 10 VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine

Download and Installation

Installing the VMWare Workstation 5 Virtual Machine of SLED10

NOTE: This product is provided "as is" and intended for evaluation with no technical support provided. Do not run it in a production environment.

Downloaded sled10-vmwarews5-vm.zip.

After you have downloaded the VMWare Workstation 5 Virtual Machine of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Desktop 10, unzip the file (sled10-vmwarews5-vm.zip) to the folder on your Linux or Windows system where you keep your virtual machines. By default, this is "home/vmware" on Linux and "My Documents\My Virtual Machines" on Windows. When unzipping the file, make sure that you recreate the folders contained in the ZIP file.

After the file has been unzipped, start VMWare Workstation 5 or VMWare Player, open the Virtual Machine, then power it on. At this point, you will receive a message asking you whether you want to create a new identifier or keep the existing identifier. We strongly recommend that you keep the existing identifier. If you don't, you will need to reconfigure the network card within the Virtual Machine.

Two users have been created, “user” with a password of “user” and “root” with a password of “root”.

NOTE: In some circumstances the XWindows system will fail to initialize correctly within the virtual machine. If this happens you will see a text based console repeated four times on the screen. To fix this you will need to perform the following steps:

  1. Log in as root (password is root).
  2. Change to runlevel 3 by typing init 3, then press Enter.
  3. Reset the XServer by typing sax2 -r, then press Enter.
  4. When the configuration screen prompts you to accept the configuration or change it, press OK to Accept.
  5. In the text-based console, start the XWindows system by typing init 5, then enter or restart the system by typing init 6, then press Return.

For more information on VMWare Workstation 5, see the VMWare Web site.

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