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Chapter 23:
Introduction to Virtualization
to burn the image file to a piece of optical media. If you are installing a guest
operating system that you have on a CD or DVD, then you should create a new
virtual CD or DVD drive by choosing Use a Physical Disk. For this example,
since you're probably installing Ubuntu Linux from a downloaded image file,
you should choose Use an ISO Image. Once Ubuntu is fully installed, you can
change this to give the virtual machine access to the host computer's CD or
DVD drives, if you wish.
11. When you choose Use an ISO Image, you see the Properties page for the
CD/DVD drive, as shown in Figure 23-12. Click Browse, and select the ISO file
that you placed in the VMware datastore. Make sure that the Connect at Power
On option is selected, so that the new virtual machine will be able to boot from
the image file, which it will need to do to install the guest operating system.
Click Next to continue.
Figure 23-12.
Setting the CD/DVD drive properties
Summary :
381 Chapter 23: Introduction to Virtualization to burn the image file to a piece of optical media. For this example, since you're probably installing Ubuntu Linux from a downloaded image file, you should choose Use an ISO Image.
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