The VMware Player 3.0 Easy Install is pretty useful but in certain cases, we want it disabled. Inside VMware Player settings, there is not an option to disable Easy Install so here is a quick trick/tip to by pass:
- First start VMware Player
- Create A New Virtual Machine
- Select the option “I will install the operating system later”
- Once done, your new virtual machine will be added to your virtual library, under Home.
- Double click on your new Virtual Machine to start it.
- It will next say the OS is not installed and provide an option to insert the OS installation media.
- Simply click on Change CD/DVD Settings to select your media then Restart VM!
Hope you like it!
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Wow! Thanks have been looking for this a lot and finally you gave me a solution and it works!!
Thanks for this useful hint!
It works! Thank you very much for the solution.
Thanks a lot!!!
Yeah, they’re trying to make it stupid easy. Even a caveman can do it!
this was super helpful. Thanks a bunch!!
Thanks!
Useful trick thank you very much! Works fine, tested on VMware player v3.1.3
Thanks a lot…just saved my project…i was trying to install trixbox on vmware…but it kept using centos easyinstall, and just installs the centos without asterisk…but now…its working like magic….
Thanks again…
Thanks!
It helps a lot.
Oh !! Man i am such a lazy ass,i hardly posted comments anywhere,,but this must say THANK YOU !!!
I was using VMWare Player 3.1.5 with easy installation process and used ISO file.
I specified 30GB for VM.
After RedHat Enterprice Linux 6 was installed its file-system was distributed as:
[yar1@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4031680 2175300 1651580 57% /
tmpfs 1027352 124 1027228 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 49574 38499 8515 82% /boot
/dev/sda5 22815220 177008 21479252 1% /home
I don’t like that “/”(root) disk was created with 4GB.
Is it any way to make correction for “easy-installation” process to specify disks sizing that meets my needs?
I know that “manual” method will solve my problem.
But my question is – is it possible to customize “easy-installation” method and how?
Thx