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Creating VMware Server 2.0 Virtual Machines

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Creating a New Virtual Machine
The guest operating system is selected by family and version. For example, once ''Windows operating system'' has been selected, the specific version must then be selected from the drop-down list. It is important to note that even if a guest operating system is not listed, it does not necessarily mean it will not run within VMware Server 2.0. In fact, it is usually sufficient to select the closest match from the list. In the case of unsupported Linux distributions, identify the kernel version (current versions are 2.4 and 2.6) and whether the operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit, and then make an appropriate selection from the ''Other Linux'' options. For a complete list of officially supported guest operating systems, refer to the [[Officially Supported VMware Server 2.0 Guest Operating Systems]] chapter.
 
Product compatibility is another issue which needs to be considered during the virtual machine creation process. VMware has, over the years, provided a number of different versions of ''virtual machine hardware'' VMWare Server 2.0 uses version 7 by default for virtual machines, which provides new features such as 8Gb of memory and up to 10 network adapters per virtual machine. One disadvantage, however, of using version 7 of the virtual machine hardware is that it will not be possible to migrate these virtual machines to VMware environments which use older versions of the virtual machine hardware. For example, a VMware Server 2.0 virtual machine running on virtual machine hardware version 7 will not be able to migrate to a host running VMware Server 1.0 or, for that matter, the current release of most other VMware products. If compatibility is of grater priority than the features offered by virtual machine hardware version 7, then it is best to select version 4 on this screen of the wizard.
== Virtual Machine Memory and CPU Settings ==
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