VMWARE PLAYER 6.0 WINDOWS 10 INSTALL
That's really all I had to do, along with Eric's instructions, to get it to install and run.
Just make sure you are in the correct directory where you want the VM created and that's all for options. During initial setup you'll have already chosen Other for 'Guest operating system' and 'Other 64bit' for Version. The next tab over, Options, is very straight-forward. I settled on allocating 40GB just to be on the safe side. Documentation states that the minimum requirement is 2GB, but I received an error stating that I didn't have enough disk space when I tried the minimum.
VMWARE PLAYER 6.0 WINDOWS 10 ISO
I believe that when I didn't have the first one, 'Enable high-speed.' chosen, I received a message that the USB connection wouldn't allow me to keep going, or something to that effect.ĭon't worry about display settings and just make sure to connect the XenServer 6 ISO package to the correct drive letter for your USB drive.Īnother good practice is to be sure your external hard drive isn't 15 years old with only 5GB of space, because you'll need quite a bit of room to allocate for the XenServer. I tried different USB settings, but using the three that I have chosen, 'Enable high-speed support for USB 2.0 devices', 'Automatically connect new USB devices', and 'Show all USB input devices' worked fine. Either way, it boots up fine now with networking enabled and of course, you have to have networking! I should have documented it at the time of installation because I might have had something else configured wrong, so that might not have been the issue at all. As you can see, I chose Bridged, just like Eric did in the video, and I have 'Connect at power on' selected, which may have given me problems when first installing because it kept trying to use PXE to find the network address information. The network settings weren't too bad to configure. The settings are really basic, not that other virtual machine installer applications are complicated, but it's very simple to use, as one would expect from a freeware virtualization application.Īs you can see, I already removed the floppy drive and sound card, because they are not needed. Of course these exact settings might not work for you, but try different settings and configurations and you'll get it to work if you have the correct hardware. If you're thinking of installing XS 6 on VMW Player, read Eric's blog post, watch about half of his video (the whole video is only about 6 minutes long), and when the configurations differ, see the images and descriptions below for the settings that I configured to make it work. There are fewer configurations that need to be performed on Player. The basic differences are that Player, of course, isn't as powerful as Workstation, and Player is free. To make a long enough story short, with a few variations in settings, I was able to install XS 6 on a USB external drive on VMWare Player. I decided to give it a try on Player using the WS instructions. That post led me to his YouTube video, "Citrix XenServer 6 and Web Self Service on VMWare Workstation 8". I decided to read though a few of the articles, and one of the highest ranked Google results happened to be a blog post from my good buddy Eric Haavarstein of. I decided to see if I could install it on VMWare Player, since it's free, and although I couldn't find any documentation online about installing it on Player, I did find some nice articles on installing XS (usually older versions) on VMWare Workstation, which I had done myself in the past. I also recently downloaded the XenCenter 6.0 Windows Management Console from M圜, so I finally had my hands on the Help documentation that can only be found (as far as I know) in the console itself. Most of the time I find very detailed information online either through the Citrix Support documentation, a virtualization expert's blog post, or an image on Google Images. It will be a big help while I'm writing the rest of the 1Y0-A26 Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration practice exam. I finally received a laptop that has an Intel Processor with VT-x and VT-d technology, allowing me to install my own Citrix XenServer 6.0 virtual host so I stop bugging my colleagues for time on their labs.