#VMWARE PLAYER OSX IMAGE HOW TO#
This section will take you step by step on how to create a new virtual machine, mainly oriented to test building OpenFOAM. This assumes you've already downloaded the desktop ISO of Xubuntu 12.04 x86_64, which we'll leave to the reader to figure out how and were to get it. Here it will be exemplified how to create and install a virtual machine with Xubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (64bit).
If this happens, check the chapter Getting Help If things don't go well, an error message like this one will pop-up.
#VMWARE PLAYER OSX IMAGE MAC OS#
On Windows (and Mac OS X ?), you simply double-click on the downloaded file.Note: The objective here is to install VMplayer on your real machine! search online for other possible solutions, but be careful not to download damaged software.) Go to the first link and take care of registering and downloading VMplayer for your desired Operating System (Windows, Linux or Mac OS X). Official documentation: Getting Started with VMware Player.Troubleshooting - as in don't shoot your computer, shoot only the troubles themselvesįinal introductory note: this tutorial would probably be more appreciated as a video tutorial, but that exercise is left to the readers that wish to contribute!.This wiki page is divided into the following chapters: Nonetheless, VirtualBox is a very good competitor, specially for testing PXE boot images. The choice of using VMplayer is somewhat simple: it's free (for non-commercial use), very good (if not best) performance and easy to use. Warning: VMPlayer is only free for non-commercial use. VMware Player - The one described in this How To page and which will be referred to from here on as VMplayer.VirtualBox - The preferred among the open-source community, given the code is open-source.Extended descriptions of selected virtualization software.įrom the last link there are 2 popular and free virtualization applications for the general public:.The global description of what Virtualization is.But at least with virtualization, one person can handle 3, 4 or even more virtual machines at the same time or in sequence, all with a single real machine.įor the readers that don't know what machine virtualization is, here are some pages on this subject at Wikipedia: Testing OpenFOAM installations on several different Operating Systems can take its toll. 4.2 Unable to operate the VMplayer window.4.1 The yield() function is not activated.
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