the message you got refers to folders on my machine--that should not be of course.
When vmware player starts the puppy vm 2.14X the first time--it asks me if I copied or moved the machine--the default is Copy which worked for me when I tested on my xp machine. I think if you picked Moved it might look for my stuff. Please let me know if that is it--I would advise starting over.
Add: Yes. I just started over in xp by deleting the puppy folder and unpacking the zip archive again--when I clicked the vmx file and the vmware player started it asked the question (Moved or Copied) and I answered Move (instead of copy) and I got the message you reported. So, strong indications that was the problem. So the right answer is Copied. Good.
there is 384 RAM allocated for the Puppy vm--that should be enough I think, shouldn't it? With 1GB on the host I don't think we should go any higher than 384. on my machine the hardinfo blowfish benchmark tests at 12 and celeron 1.5 is 26 (lower is better--my machine is a phenom x4 9850 at 3 GHz). The vm is only virtualizing one of the cores. vmware allows for 2 cores which increases speed by around 10% but i set one core for compatibility. let's see what it does if it works correctly--i don't think it should be at all "jerky" though.
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yes, without ide (disk) it would be using only the 384 RAM and would be jerky, so I think getting the startup right should improve speed.with ide disabled"
It is a bad design on my part but the vm-tools and vm-mnt icons on the Desktop don't "seem" to do anything, but they should. After clicking vm-tools, you can check "lsmod" in a terminal to see the six "vm...." modules. Also you can check "htop" to see the two vmware processes running. There are some docs in the /root folder about checking that it is working.
Once you confirm that the vm-tools are working then click the vm-mnt. Remember, you must make a folder at C:\Puppy *before* you try to mount it. Actually maybe not, according to what Mstar said, but I would do it (create C:\Puppy) to be safe. Once C:\Puppy is created, then click vm-mnt. The way to check that is to then navigate Rox to /mnt/Puppy and you should see the contents of C;\Puppy--assuming there is something in C:\Puppy
I hope this gets it.
just making sureyep....but 4.2.1 doesn't have bubbles & gem... Wink
and it's slower Sad
I see what you mean MHHP. Without the tools installed you have to click to get back into the virtual machine window.The mouse jumps between host and guest more seamlessly than in vmPup214X8 without the tools.
The small 2.14X9 virtual machine (without VMWare Tools) should be working now.