Hello Readers, Welcome to my blog – oracledbworld, Today we are going to concentrate on how to Install Linux on VMWARE. To be honest, VMWARE is add-on for a student like us, who are willing to learn, understand, do R&D.
VMWARE is not a freeware, hence you will have a restriction for using trail version. We have an alternative – Oracle VM Virtual Box, We will cover how to install linux on Virtual Box as well.
| Content of Tables – 1. Introduction 2. System Requirement 3. Software Requirement 4. Step by Step Procedure on “How to Install Linux on VMWARE” |
Table of Contents
Introduction
As said earlier, Virtual Machine is a great example when you want to learn new stuffs without damaging your local system. We are adding “How to Install Linux on VMWARE” in oracle dba learning because,
1) When you will work for as Oracle DBA you will find Oracle is mostly used with Linux Platforms then Windows.
2) To make you used to with CLI . ( CLI – Command Line Interface ).
“Installing Linux on latest VMWARE version is easy now as compared to older versions. “
System Requirements
We will require at least following system configuration –
- 4 GB RAM or more
- 4 core cpu or more
- 30GB or more Free HDD space available in other then System Drive ( C: for most of the system)
As we all know Virtual System will act as Computer which will use your physical resources like RAM,HDD and CPU. More the resource the better system will respond.
Software Requirements
We will require following requirements fulfilled –
- ISO image of linux , You can google it, there are lots of ways to download a ISO image of any flavor of Linux. ( Here we are using Redhat Linux)
- VMware Software installed on your system.
Step by Step Procedure on “How to Install Linux on VMWARE”
- First of all, Open VMware Workstation you installed on your system. And click on File –> Choose New Virtual Machine…
- Then you will have option either to go with Custom or Typical (recommended) , Here I chose “Custom“. Custom actual gives you better control on your resources.Select “Installer disc image (ISO)“, click “Browse” to select the ISO file, click “Open” then “Next”.
- Here you can chose on how many processors,memory,network etc, will be assigned to virtual machine. Please check image I2 and I3 where you are specifying number of processors and size of ram will be assigned to Virtual machine. In our case, we have 8core processors and 8GB RAM. Hence we gave, 2 cores and 2 GB ram to my virtual machine.
- Here we chose “Use network address translation (NAT)” so that my virtual machine can use the Internet connection.
- For “Select I/O controller types” and “select a disk type” We kept is as whatever recommended by vmware.
- We just need to provide the name of the disk file ( It’s automatic ) You can Click on Next
- This will show summary page before starting and creating virtual machine.You just have to crosscheck if all parameters are perfect for you. And click on finish
- Once you click Finish. VMware will start installation ( It will take 30-40 mins to complete the installation ) Once everything it done. You will have a final page.
- Don’t forgot to Power off the machine whenever you don’t want to use linux machine, this way you will free the resources on your local / Physical system.
This way we finish the step by step procedure on How to install Linux on VMWARE. If you have any doubt you can comment us back we are happy to help you out. 🙂