Track It Installation – Creating The VM
Yesterday we started the process of installing Track It on a virtual machine. you can read the post by clicking the following link Installing VMware Server to Install Track It .
Today we will create the virtual machine on VMware console that will host our Track It server.
Login to your VMware console, and click on Virtual Machines, and select Create Virtual Machine:
The create virtual machine wizard will come up. name the virtual machine.
Click on Next and choose the Guest Operating System you will be installing. I will be installing Windows Server 2008 on this virtual machine, so I will choose the operating system accordingly:
After choosing the Guest Operating System, click on Next.
choose the Memory Size and processors on the following screen:
On the next screen click on Create a new Virtual Disk and choose the hard disk space you want to allocate for this virtual machine:
I’ll allocate 16 GB for my VM.
on the next screen select the Network Adapter:
choose the network connection to be Bridged, and check connect at power on option if you want the NIC card to be available when you power on the machine. otherwise you won’t have network connection.
Next choose to use the Physical Drive or ISO Image:
On a VMware virtual machine you can use either the physical CD drive or an ISO image to install the operating system and applications.
choose your CD-ROM letter, and select connect at power on option if you want the CD-ROM to be activated when you power on the VM.
click on on Next.
on the next screen select the option if you want to use a floppy drive. as you know, floppy drives are barely used nowadays. so I won’t choose any:
Next choose if you want to use the USB Controller:
and yes, that can be useful.
after that, you are done! well, almost. you need to click on Finish.
that’s it, after clicking the finish button, your virtual machine should be created, and should show up at the inventory section on the left panel.
On the next post we will be installing windows server 2008 on this virtual machine which eventually will host our demo track it server. stay tuned.