I will be using this sticky to provide access and information for Puppy Linux running as a Virtual Machine using VMWARE's free player. If you want VM's for older versions let me know.
I will also be offering the ongoing 2.xxx development versions as well.
NOTE: For all future version I will be using .ZIP for compression due to compatibility issues with .RAR.
NOTE: Suggestions for a name for the virtual puppies would be welcome.
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THE PUPPY VIRTUAL MACHINES
Version: Puppy 1.0.7
VM Configuration:
128 MB RAM
500 MB Hard Drive
NAT for networking
Puppy Configuration:
Using Xvesa
800 x 600 x 16
Get the Puppy 1.0.7 VM here:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/1.0.7/vmware/
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Version: Puppy 1.0.6
VM Configuration:
128 MB RAM
500 MB Hard Drive
NAT for networking
Puppy Configuration:
Using Xvesa
800 x 600 x 16
Get the Puppy 1.0.6 VM here:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/1.0.6/vmware/
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The VM Player:
Get the VM Player here:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Install the VM Player:
Be patient it is a slow installing program, accept all the defaults unless you know what you are doing.
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Installing the Puppy:
The Puppy file is compressed using Winrar, so you will need that to unrar it, if you do not have winrar you can get the trial version from here:
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe
Extract the files to a location on your computer. These files can be moved later with no ill consequences.
Start the VM player, when it asks for a file point it to where you extracted the Puppy 1.0.7 VM.
It will ask about the virtual machine's configuration file, choose "Create", which is the default.
It will complain that your G drive is not a CD Drive (if indeed it isn't), as that is what my drive was
set as when creating this puppy. This means that if your Cd Drive is not G you will not have access to a CD Drive in Puppy. Just click OK.
After that Puppy 1.0.7 should start the boot process using Grub with no timeout set. The rest of the process will be familiar to you.
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Controlling the VM Player:
To control Puppy just click once in the VM player (or press CTRL+G) to move mouse and keyboard control
into the player. To get control out of the Player and back to your main computer press CTRL+ALT.
