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Guest Operating System Installation Guide
Power off the virtual machine and close the virtual machine window. Open the virtual
machine’s configuration file (.vmx file on a Windows host or .cfg file on a Linux
host) in a text editor and add the following line:
cdrom.minvirtualtime=100
Save the file. Now you should be able to install the guest operating system as
described above. After you finish installing the guest operating system, remove this
setting from the configuration file, as it may have a performance impact.
Guest Screen Saver
On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver in the
guest operating system. Guest screen savers that demand a lot of processing power
can cause the X server on the host to freeze.
Shutting Down Mandrake Linux 8.0
The shutdown process in the guest operating system may hang when shutting down
the network interface because of the way the Mandrake Linux 8.0 shutdown script
handles dhcpd. This problem does not occur with Mandrake Linux 8.1 guests.
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