Building Windows and Debian VM using VMware player on Linux Mint Screencast 2015 08 01
This screencap was recorded on August 1, 2015.
My aim was to replace my primary machine at home, taking out Windows 7 and replacing it with a Linux variant, primarily Debian based.
One of my long time hangups was getting my dual display to work... finally snagged that issue, and the dual boot is for now, I will probably redo the whole install and convert to single boot.... now that I can use my 2 external monitors! yay!!
Duall Boot HP 8440P laptop
Windows 7 64 bit
Linux Mint 17.2 (Rafaela) 64 bit
running VMware Player 7
installed Debian 4.x netinst 32 bit
installed Windows 7 32 bit
installed rdesktop
installed VMware player 7 for Linux
installed Teamviewer
screencap shot using Kazam ...
-- session rough notes
HI
welcome to this video where I show what I have managed to accomplish
using Linux Mint 17.2 64bit codename rafaela
the app I am using to record this session is kazam....
kazam is available in the default repo...
you can also try recordmydesktop
these are the commands to install both or either
sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop
sudo apt-get install kazam
before I installed those I researched to get an app that can do system snapshots
I cam up with "timeshift" .. this app uses rsync , a common linux file sync tool to make snapshots of your system...
the commands to install timeshift are as follows:
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install timeshift
by the way I am in the library and I am remoting to my system at home using teamviewer ... works great!!!
so now what I want to do is install a windows 7 64 bit virtual machine, using VMware player....
that is why I am shooting this my first video...
ok on to the install, VMware player is already installed...
and it also looks like the first timeshift system restore point has been created...
ok so I had to grab the windows pro 64 bit iso and copy it to a folder ...
its just a test machine so 30gb will be ok...
ahhh 64 bit failed.... I will attempt with 32 bit, before I fo check the VTX settings in bios...
pausing recording now to transfer iso ...
so while we wait for the windows 32 bit iso to Download I will install debian 4 32bit.....
will restart the process... first delete the test one I built while the video was not recording...
i basically selected all the defaults, except one or two which i picked based on personal preferences, ymmv
switching to check on my iso copy progress
the debian repo mirror failed, but i went ahead.... windows iso is a couple of minutes away from completion as well..
first boot of the debian system
..
ok will go back later and resolve whatever issue on the debian box ... but for now we have base ... all your base is mine
now on to windows 32 bit install
ok install has started...
apt-get
while this is installing, I will change my network card settings on the debian virtual machine, and change it from NAT (sharing ip with the host) to bridged, so it seeks a dhcp ip address from my home network,,,, which would be in the 192.168.1.x range...
wow! i was stumped for a second, looks like sudo is not installed on the "netinst" version of debian 4.x... LOL
i think I overtaxed this 4gb system.... anyways windows and debian are installed as virtual machines on top of the linux mint os using VMware player
that's all folks..!!