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Guest Operating System

Use the pull-down selector on this panel to select the guest operating system that will run in the virtual machine. If you are planning to use more than one virtual machine, you can run the configuration wizard again later to create additional virtual machines.

The pull-down selector lists supported guest operating systems. Select an operating system from this list that is closest to the operating systems you are going to install in the virtual machine. The operating system choice is used to name the virtual machine, and to select the amount of memory with which to configure the virtual machine. The configuration editor can be used to change the virtual machine memory size later. Guest operating systems that are not listed in the pull-down selector may also run, but may not be officially supported by VMware.

Unsupported operating systems can be installed by choosing the Other option. More detailed technical information on supported guest operating systems is available on the VMware support web site.