2009-07-15, 05:32 PM
VMWare player is free, but it has no operating system or anything loaded on it.
To create an operating system to run on VMWare player you need a VMWare Server (costs money). All VMServer does is allow you to export the operating system and environment running on the computer that VMServer is loaded on, in other words it makes a copy of the OS and the desktop etc. Once that is done, it creates a file that VMWare Player can use to operate like a virtual pc. Where I work has several files for different OS's, so I just simply took one and tweaked it to work on my computer.
Now with that said. I have posted the vmware files you will need to run an instance of windows XP SP3 on your computer.
First go here: https://www.vmware.com/products/player/
and install vmware player.
Next, login to the ftp and grab the whole directory called "Base XP SP3" from the SOMTools/VMWare/ directory.
Note, please when you download this, limit your download speed to under 100k/s, else the ftp provider will send me a nasty email again because I am hogging their bandwidth.
Once you download that, launch VMWare Player, select the SP3 file from that directory and it should launch a Windows XP login screen, the user is Owner, password is Owner.
You will likely have to clean up the desktop and remove software you don't want, but on the bright side it will run the map editor flawlessly...on the not so bright side the VMWare player uses a purely software graphics driver and it will run the game horribly, so you will have to test your changes in your regular windows vista session.
To create an operating system to run on VMWare player you need a VMWare Server (costs money). All VMServer does is allow you to export the operating system and environment running on the computer that VMServer is loaded on, in other words it makes a copy of the OS and the desktop etc. Once that is done, it creates a file that VMWare Player can use to operate like a virtual pc. Where I work has several files for different OS's, so I just simply took one and tweaked it to work on my computer.
Now with that said. I have posted the vmware files you will need to run an instance of windows XP SP3 on your computer.
First go here: https://www.vmware.com/products/player/
and install vmware player.
Next, login to the ftp and grab the whole directory called "Base XP SP3" from the SOMTools/VMWare/ directory.
Note, please when you download this, limit your download speed to under 100k/s, else the ftp provider will send me a nasty email again because I am hogging their bandwidth.
Once you download that, launch VMWare Player, select the SP3 file from that directory and it should launch a Windows XP login screen, the user is Owner, password is Owner.
You will likely have to clean up the desktop and remove software you don't want, but on the bright side it will run the map editor flawlessly...on the not so bright side the VMWare player uses a purely software graphics driver and it will run the game horribly, so you will have to test your changes in your regular windows vista session.
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