Networking: A Beginner’s Guide Fifth Edition- P79:I have run into many people over the years who have gained good even impressive working knowledge of PCs, operating systems, applications, and common problems and solutions. Many of these people are wizards with desktop computers. | 372 Networking A Beginner s Guide Figure 23-3. Creating a new VMware datastore Virtual machines are created using a wizard-like process that walks you through making all the appropriate choices. Here are the steps 1. Click the Create Virtual Machine link in the VMware Server console s Command pane. You see the Create Virtual Machine screen as shown in Figure 23-4. 2. On the Name and Location page name the virtual machine you will create. In this example I ve named it Ubuntu . You should also verify that the correct datastore has been selected if you have more than one . Click Next to continue. Chapter 23 Introduction to Virtualization 373 Figure 23-4. Starting to create a virtual machine 3. On the Guest Operating System page shown in Figure 23-5 first select the appropriate type of guest operating system that will run in the virtual machine. In the Version drop-down list you will see that a wide variety of supported guest Linux versions are available including some choices for generic Linux distributions. Select the version that is closest to that of your guest operating system. Then click Next to continue. 4. On the Memory and Processors page shown in Figure 23-6 based on the guest operating system you chose in the preceding step VMware will propose a suggested value for the amount of RAM to give it. You can accept this amount or change it. Note that you can increase this amount later if necessary. 374 Networking A Beginner s Guide Figure 23-5. Choosing the guest operating system NOTE The amount of RAM you allocate to the virtual machine will come from the host computer s available RAM and while the virtual machine is running will not be available for the host operating system. Therefore you do not want to allocate all of the computer s installed RAM to the virtual machine as then the host operating system would not have enough RAM to do its work and it would likely thrash its virtual memory file and become unusable. On the other hand you don t want to .
