Lab 02 - Install CentOS 8 on a VMware Workstation
Yaser Rahmati | یاسر رحمتی
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In VMware workstation click on File–> New Virtual Machine. A New virtual Machine Wizard windows now pop up.
Check the option which says Typical and click on Next.
On the next screen, instead of choosing the installer disk, select ‘I will install the operating system later’ and click Next.
Since I did not select the ISO image during the installation, I would have to manually select the version of VM that I am going to install.
In the Guest Operating system menu, select Linux as the operating system and from the version drop-down select CentOS version 7 64bit and click on Next.
You can name it whatever you like for the guest OS. I have named it as CentOS 8 and selected a different location where I wanted to install the operating system.
On the Specify Disk Capacity window I am leaving everything as default including the storage size as 20 GB and click on next. You can change it depends on the storage capacity that you have.
By default, the VMware workstation would pick the Memory as 1024 MB and the CPU as 1. I am not so happy with that hence I decided to change, so click on customize Hardware.
If you would like to keep the same default value, you may do so.
On the hardware windows, I resized the memory as 2 GB.
And the CPU as 2.
In the hardware customization, there are many other settings that you could change than just memory and CPU, but I am not going to touch anything else. Once you are done with hardware customization you may click on Finish.
Remember, we have not selected CentOS 8 iso file yet in the vmware workstation pro. To add the ISO file, right click on guest VM and click on Settings.
In the virtual machine settings windows click on CD/DVD, and check the option which says ‘Connect at power‘ on and attach the Centos 8 iso image under Use ISO image file. Then click Ok.
You may power on the Centos VM now.
Unlike error message this time you would get centos installation setup wizard. Use the arrow key to select Install CentOS Linux 8 and hit enter.
You would get a prompt to select the Language, choose your appropriate language, and click continue.
You would be presented with installation Summary screen now. You would have to tell the installer where it has to install the CentOS VM. Click on Installation Destination.
Select your desired drive and click on Done.
Next, you would have to select the Software’s that you need to install along with the CentOS. By default Server with GUI selected. Which is what I wanted. Along with this I would like to also add SNMP service on this machine. So click on Software selection.
By keeping the server with GUI I also selected Remote Management for Linux. This would help me setup SNMP on this machine in case if I wanted to monitor the VM. Click on Done and Begin installation.
Installation now begin However, you would have to set the Root password also create a user account for this machine.
Click on Root password, after you have set a strong password click on Done.
Next, click on User creation and define user information with the credentials. Click on Done.
The installation process may take sometime.
Once the installation is completed you may go ahead and Reboot the machine by clicking on reboot.
This time you would get a full-screen window as compared to previous small windows during the installation steps. You would have to accept the license agreement by clicking on License Information.
Accept the License Agreement and click on Done.
The installation is now completed and you would be presented with the login screen.
Once you logged in you have to select the Language for the machine.
And once you are done with post-installation steps, you would be presented with the screen that says You are ready to go.
Click on start using CentOS Linux and you would be presented with the desktop like below.
Congrats! You have now successfully installed Centos 8 on Vmware workstation pro 15.5.
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