[Centos] Installing CentOS-4 in VMWare Workstation 4.5.2

[benjamin at birdvet.org (Benjamin J. Weiss)]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, James Allman wrote:
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>>Has anyone been able to get CentOS-4 running in VMWare?
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>------ On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Bart Schaefer wrote: ------
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>To: centos@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: CentOS 4 (RC1) and VMWare
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>I successfully installed CentOS 4 (RC1) on a VMWare 4.5.2 virtual 
>workstation last night.  When creating the new virtual machine, I told
>the VMWare wizard that I'd be installing RHEL3.  I used the VMWare
>console to point the virtual CDROM drive at each of the downloaded ISO
>images as needed.
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I've been trying to get CentOS 4 fully running on a VMWare 5.0 beta.  It 
loads fine, but I can't get the VMWare tools to load without the screen 
turning black.  It's on VMware's "known issues" page, but I hope they 
get it fixed soon.  If they do, I'll try to scrape together the cash 
they want to buy the thing...