Comments on: Puppy Linux 4.00 with VMWare Player

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:21:59 +0000

Thanks! Worked fine.

Only difference was that I didn’t have to reenter my keyboard/display settings after I removed the livecd.iso file. It already seemed to be persistent from my installation.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:33:35 +0000

Your tutorial is a godsend. The other ones I searched for got me nowhere, and were all text. Thank you very much.

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By: AlfonsoReyes

AlfonsoReyes — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:21:23 +0000

Thanks a lot for the how-to. It worked right out of the box!
I have now Puppy Linux as a vmware virtual machine.

By: Pasi Mustalahti

Pasi Mustalahti — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:59:24 +0000

I have VMWare server 1.0.6 build-91891 on Ubuntu 8.04 and NVIDIA vga card and built the Puppy 4.0 environment exactly as you told. The startup of Puppy ends to black screen, if I select Xorg. Xvesa rules. I have had similar problems in my other PC’s too running native without VMWare. I have about 10 PC ranging from 486 to Dual2Core.
ACPI=off helps in some of them, even you can’t install Debian in those.

The style of your writing is clean and easy to read.
Thank you very much for your document !

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:26:17 +0000

This was harder for me (as a Linux noob) than installing XUbuntu as a VM. There the main trick is to hit F4 before you start XUbuntu to put it in safe graphics mode.

Here, all this mounting & unmounting messed me up. I admittedly started from a different virtual machine file than what you had (created with Easy VMX — the simple option for live cds), so that could well have been my problem. But I couldn’t change the GRUB file b/c my /mnt/hda1 was blank! (BTW, hda1 was already mounted for me at this point.) Also, when I turned Puppy Linux off and edited the .vmx file, the Live CD showed up as ide1:1 not ide1:0.

Anyway, thanks for going through the effort to put all this stuff here — it was fun to give it a whirl!