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| ==== Hard Drives ==== | ==== Hard Drives ==== | ||
| - | VMware products will create a SCSI virtual hard drive for a Linux VM when using the new VM wizard. This controller is not recognized by the Tiny Core Linux kernel. Depending on the VMware product and version there may or may not be a ' | + | VMware products will create a SCSI virtual hard drive for a Linux VM when using the new VM wizard. This controller is not recognized by the Tiny Core Linux kernel. This will become evident when no hard drive is detected during installation. Depending on the VMware product and version there may or may not be a ' |
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| Type ' | Type ' | ||
| - | ==== Settings | + | ==== Suggested |
| - | * RAM: 64 MB minimum if text only; for GUI consider at least 256MB. More is suggested based on desired use. | + | * RAM: 64 MB minimum if text only; for GUI consider at least 256MB |
| - | * Select ' | + | * Select ' |
| - | * Network Adapter: Depending on the product and version the network adapter may either be a pcnet32 or vmxnet3. | + | * Network Adapter: Depending on the product and version the network adapter may either be a pcnet32 or vmxnet3 |
| * Network Adapter Connection: NAT (an Internet connection is suggested; Bridged may also work but is host-configuration dependent) | * Network Adapter Connection: NAT (an Internet connection is suggested; Bridged may also work but is host-configuration dependent) | ||
| - | * Virtual hard disk: SATA default is 8 GB. | + | * Virtual hard disk: SATA default is 8 GB |
| * The shared folders will be accessible to the ' | * The shared folders will be accessible to the ' | ||
| - | * The desktop wallpaper and wbar will not adjust automatically to window resizing. For best results set the wallpaper to one color, no gradient or logo, and wbar to be vertical in the upper left corner. | + | * The desktop wallpaper and wbar will not adjust automatically to window resizing. For best results set the wallpaper to one color, no gradient or logo, and wbar to be vertical in the upper left corner |
| - | * The default terminal ' | + | * The default terminal ' |
| - | * Udev has been known to crash VM's. Set ' | + | * Udev has been known to crash VM's. Set ' |
| - | ==== VMWare and Open VM Tools ==== | + | ==== VMWare and Open VM Tools Capabilities Known to Work ==== |
| - | Both the proprietary VMWare Tools and the Open VM Tools can be compiled and installed in a TinyCore guest virtual machine. These require Xorg because there is an xf86-video-vmware driver that must be used. Capabilities known to work are: | + | |
| * Automatic resizing of the desktop with the guest window including full screen support (reposition wbar to upper left of desktop) | * Automatic resizing of the desktop with the guest window including full screen support (reposition wbar to upper left of desktop) | ||
| - | * Automatic mouse grab and ungrab | ||
| * Multi-monitor full screen support including cycling through displays | * Multi-monitor full screen support including cycling through displays | ||
| + | * Automatic mouse grab and ungrab | ||
| * VMXnet3 network module in place of the PCNet32 module | * VMXnet3 network module in place of the PCNet32 module | ||
| + | * Access to host devices such as USB drives | ||
| * USB 3.0 is supported | * USB 3.0 is supported | ||
| * Host shared folder access using HGFS (mounted at /mnt/hgfs) | * Host shared folder access using HGFS (mounted at /mnt/hgfs) | ||
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| * Copy/paste between host/guest | * Copy/paste between host/guest | ||
| * Sound (requires alsa and alsa-config extensions) | * Sound (requires alsa and alsa-config extensions) | ||
| - | * Access to host devices such as USB drives | + | |
| - | Because VMWare doesn' | + | Because VMWare doesn' |
