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B. Primary slave
C. Secondary master
D. Secondary slave
If you have multiple SCSI drives configured on a system, the VMware BIOS
normally attempts to boot them in the order of the SCSI device number.
If you have both SCSI and IDE drives configured, the VMware BIOS normally
attempts to boot SCSI drives followed by IDE drives, in the order described
above.
The boot sequence can be changed in the Boot menu of the virtual machine's
Phoenix BIOS. After powering on the virtual machine, press F2 during the BIOS
boot in the virtual machine to enter the BIOS setup menu.
8. Power on the virtual machine. Click the Power On button. The virtual machine
starts, runs the Phoenix BIOS, then boots from the master boot record (MBR).
Choose the target operating system from the list of options offered by the boot
manager.
9. Remember that your virtual machine hardware environment, which the guest
operating system is about to run in for the first time, probably differs significantly
from the physical hardware of your host computer.
For Windows guest operating systems, Plug and Play reconfigures Windows. Set
up your virtual hardware profile with the devices found and configured by Plug
and Play. See Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154
more information.
10. Install VMware Tools in your guest operating system.
Warning: If you take a snapshot while using your raw disk, you must either revert to
the snapshot or remove the snapshot before you reboot your guest operating system
natively. This is necessary because any changes to sectors on the physical disk that
have been modified on the disk invalidate the snapshot for the disk.
Configuring a Linux Host
1. If you are running a Windows guest operating system, read
Profiles in Virtual Machines on page
system natively on the computer and create a hardware profile for the virtual
machine before proceeding.
2. Create a separate configuration for each guest operating system.
Setting Up Hardware
154. You should boot the guest operating
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