Test DSS Lite in VMWare Workstation

I like to have a test of DSS Lite in a VMWare Environment.

Need help or a Howto to start DSS Lite with VMWare Workstation.
VMWare is not abel to boot from a USB Stick. Only CD/DVD, FD or ISO is supported.
Is there a way to get a ISO Image from the USB Stick?
Or a something like a Bootloader to redirect to the Stick?

Thanks

Hi - try running Windows on VMware first and run DSS Lite installation on it (I think it is good idea but I don't have vmware now to check it).

Hi,

mount a vmdk with 1GB with vmware-mount under windows.

With undisker you can capture a image from usb disk an write it back to the mounted vmware disk. The vmdk must be created during vm machine creation.

Jürgen

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Originally Posted by juergenb52

Hi,

mount a vmdk with 1GB with vmware-mount under windows.

With undisker you can capture a image from usb disk an write it back to the mounted vmware disk. The vmdk must be created during vm machine creation.

Jürgen

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Sorry,

booting from hdd vmware didn´t worked. DSS Lite was still booting from USB.

Hi,

mount a vmdk with 2GB with vmware-mount under an VMware-Windows. Start Setup and install dss lite in the 2GB Partition. Create a DSS VM and copy the 2GB vmdk.

This should work. (I use VMware Server 1.4)
Alex

I am running dss-lite in a vm.

1) Download DSS-lite and complete usb installation
2) Download WinImage (30 day demo works fine)
3) plug in usb key and launch WinImage
4) In WinImage, select "Disk" --> "Create Virtual Hard Disk from physical drive"

select your usb disk from the pop-up, click o.
type in desired file name and make sure to select "VMware *.vmdk" as the file type.
let it cook.

5) go into vmware (server/workstation) and create a new vmachine, select the CUSTOM option.

Select "Linux" and then "other linux" from the drop down box. Type in your vm name, select location,go through the standard steps,etc...

Select LSI Logic as the I/O adapter. At the select a disk, select "Use an existing virtual disk", browse to the vmdk file created in step 4 and select it. It will complete. Edit the vm by adding another hard drive to use as your data store for testing. Good luck.

Sean

Thanks...

Nice detailed procedure

did anyone manage to get dds-lite working in vmware esx server ?

(i mean inside a virtual machine)