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Step11 - Select partitioning and Root password For example, I will select English (United States). Once you get Installation Wizard, Select your preferred language. Why I have selected this option? Because I want to test my ISO image to avoid package missing errors during installation.
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Once the virtual machine is powered on and successfully started as boot from ISO - Select option " Test this Media and install AlmaLinux 8" with help of arrow keys on your keyboard and hit Enter. Step9 - Power on virtual machineĬlick " Play Virtual Machine" to boot your virtual machine from select AlmaLinux iso image. Afterwards, click "Browse" and provide the path to your " AlmaLinux-8.3-x86_64-minimal.iso" image. Select " CD/DVD (IDE)" in the left pane and then click on the "use iso-image" file option. For that, you need to click " Edit virtual machine settings" Once your Virtual machine is ready, now you need to provide the path of the AlmaLinux 8 iso image. Step8 - Install AlmaLinux 8.3 from iso image on Virtual machine Otherwise, you can leave it 1024 MB only.Ĭlick Close and Finish. On the next screen, click on " Customize hardware" and increase RAM size from 1024 MB to 2048 MB, If you have enough memory in your pc. Split virtual disk into multiple files – Management of Virtual machine disk files is easy but may have some performance impact due to large files. In case you want to copy or move this VM to another PC or laptop, Managing a single file of 20GB or more would be difficult. Store virtual disk as a single file – You can select this option, but I won’t recommend this. Choose the " split virtual disk into multiple files" option-> Click Next. We will also go with the default 20 GB disk size. Generally, 20GB is enough for AlmaLinux or even any other Linux installation. Now it's time to define your virtual disk size. Step6 - Specify Disk size for AlmaLinux VM For example, I have provided the name as " AlmaLinux" and location as "E:\VMs\Alamlinux" -> Click Next. So you can select CentOS 8 64-bit as the version.Īdd the name and location of the Virtual machine. Note:- AlmaLinux is not listed in dropdown currently. Select " Guest operating system" as Linux and Version as " Centos 8 64-bit" in wizard-> Click Next. I will choose the "install the operating system later" option to showcase each and every step involved to install AlmaLinux in VMware Player -> Click Next. if you will continue using this option, it will create a new Virtual machine for you. I will install the operating system later – if you are not willing to install Operating system immediately or you are not ready with AlmaLinux iso CD or image, you can select this option.Installer disc image file (iso) – using this option, you can just browse for your downloaded ISO on your laptop or PC.Your physical drive will be visible as /dev/sr0 and you just need to insert the installer disc, you prepared and click on Next. Installer Disc – if your laptop or PC has CD/DVD drive and you love to burn iso images to CD’s and Dvd’s (old school method).On the Media selection page, you have three options. Step3 - Select media " I will Install operating system later" Look for VMware workstation in Windows search bar and click OpenĬlick on Create a new virtual machine, it will start a new AlmaLinux VM wizard.
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For example, I am using Windows 10 as a host OS.
So, open the VMware workstation player in your host operating system.
The first step would be to create a virtual machine for AlmaLinux 8 in Vmware Workstation 16. Step1 - Launch VMware workstation player 16 Generally, You can install any Linux flavour like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, RedHat and Fedora easily in VMware workstation Player. If you have experience installing CentOS, then you will find instructions same for AlmaLinux also.
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Download AlmaLinux-8.3-x86_64-minimal.iso How to Install AlmaLinux 8 in VMwareįollow these simple steps to install AlmaLinux 8 as a Virtual machine.