The Player looks for a VMware Disk Image with a .vmdk extension, so let??™s
make one. At the shell, in the Guest directory, type:
qemu-img create -f vmdk hd.vmdk 10G
This creates a 10 gigabyte image called hd.vmdk. This should be plenty of space for our
Windows install, but adjust as necessary.
Next up is configuring our virtual machine. A sample configuration for a Windows
machine is located at http://www.ffnn.nl/media/articles/linux/vmware-playerimages/
template-windows.vmx.
Edit this configuration file in any text editor. Most lines can be left as is. Some exceptions
include the following:
. The first line of the configuration file should look like this to point to the Player:
#!/usr/bin/vmplayer
. The displayName should indicate the type of virtual machine this is, and this
setting appears in the Player window. Thus, if you??™re running Windows XP, this line
should be Windows XP. If you??™re running a particular application, say GNOME, in
this player window, the window should display that name.
. The guestOS defines the operating system that will be in charge here.
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