Creating a new Virtual Machine in VMware workstation.

I have installed VMware Workstation 7.1.4  in windows 7- ultimate OS. Once you completed the installation  you will  see a shortcut icon of VMware in your desktop. double click on it and you will see the below shown window.

Click on the New Virtual Machine icon

select Typical configuration as shown below

If you have a fedora OS CD inserted into your machine, then you may select, Installer disc option. but I have a Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop  IOS image downloaded and I select Installer disc image file (iso) option and browse that file as shown below.

Download the Fedora 14 Live GNOME iso image from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora (e.g.http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live/i686/Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop.iso)

Then, you will be asked to provide username and password. note that your username must have lower case letters and digits from 0 to 9 

Next provide a name for your Virtual machine. I have given Fedora 14_VM as shown below.

leave the next options with the defaults and click Next.

Now you will see a summary of the virtual machine that you are ready to create as shown below.

Then, you will be seeing the following screens one after the other in the middle of the installation process.

If the installation is successful, then the following window should appear asking you to select your user login details. select the system that you have given during the installation. Mine is Fedora14. 

Now your installation is completed and you will see the below fedora desktop  at the completion. You can just work with any application similarly in any other platform like windows.

But we don't need to meddle with every application available in fedora but we are going to deal with a command prompt (Terminal) to build our programs, compile and run.

So, in order to get a Terminal Click on Applications --> System Tools --> Terminal as shown below

OK, I hope It was clear for you. Now we can play around with codes in c++ in Linux platform from this post onward.

Let's switch to a new environment.

OK guys. I thinks I published plenty of posts in a tiny area of network configuration and I feel it's time to switch to some new platform. It's not going to be a new world but programming in a well known platform and language.

No more suspense...I'm going to do a little bit of programming in C++ working in Linux environment. Yes, you heard me right. It's not the well known Visual Studio IDE that I'm going to use to play with C++ this time.

You can join these posts with a number of available options. 

1. you can have a PC completely running in Linux platform ( Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, KNOPPIX etc.) but you need to have g++ compiler in it.
2. you can partition your hard disk to select the linux OS while booting your PC without straight away login into Windows
3. you can install a virtual machine software in your Windows platform and install Linux within it.
4. Have a bootable linux OS CD and restart your PC, booting from the CD it self (but the problem here is, even you work hard for the whole day creating hundreds of files at the end of the day, they will be no longer available after switching off the PC or removing the CD. So, all you have to do is, have a pendirve connected to the virtual machine and copy your work then and their to it so that you can use them later)

Any option is possible but I think most of you will surely like the third option because I know most of you are so familiar with windows operating system ( windows 7 at the moment) and afraid to change you OS to a completely different world :)

It's my option too. I have Windows 7 -ultimate running in my PC at the moment. but I also need to tell you something you should know. 

your PC needs at least a dual core processor and RAM of GB to make the machine ready to run a virtual machine. I know you guys know what a virtual machine is. A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine. Let's say you are going to run another OS on top of your machine's currently working OS. Furthermore,  I am going to run Linux on top of Windows. This task cannot be achieved if we don't have a virtual machine software installed in your PC.

Tips for you :- 

There are plenty of virtual machine software available online to download free e.g :-VIRTUALPC_2004, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation etc. But you have to select one out of them that is compatible with your OS.

I use VMware Workstation 7.1.4 which you can download from here,

Download VMware Workstation 7.1.4 for W...

this is compatible with windows XP and higher as far as I tried. I don't think you will have troubles in installing the VMware but you may have troubles in creating a new virtual machine. In my case it's going to be fedora-14.

OK, then I'll explain you in the next post on how to install a new virtual machine in VMware workstation and continue making C++ programs using it. Don't miss the next post because you will really enjoy working in this platform with commands.

Installation of Cisco Packet Tracer

I'll show the steps for the installation of Cisco Packet Tracer software in this post. note that the version explained here is 5.2. I think its same for the version 5.0 as well.

1. Double click on the Packet Tracer 5.2 Setup icon

2. In Windows 7, it will ask you for the confirmation for the installation. Click Yes in the dialog box
3. Then, follow the below screenshots and provide confirmation accordingly

if you have less space in the default location as shown above, you can browse and provide another location

if you would like to have both a desktop icon and a Quick Launch icon, then select both the check boxes shown above and click Next

if you want to run Packet tracer, as soon as you install, you can select the above shown check box and then click Finish. Or else click finish without selecting the check box.

OK, now, you are done with the installation and ready to follow the practical sessions along with me. I hope you will enjoy working with packet tracer