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Next, specify the location of your installer disc—either a physical drive on your

PC or an .iso image file if applicable—and click Next. On the Easy Install

Information page, VMware lets you enter the license key, user account name

to create, and associated password, all of which are optional; type them in,

and VMware will pre-enter them for a (nearly) unattended setup.

When asked to allocate memory, you’ll need to specify at least 2048 MB

(2 GB); more is better, if you can spare it. (Whatever you allocate for the virtual

machine will be sucked out of your host PC’s memory, so don’t give it every-

thing you’ve got.)

On the Network Type page, select Use bridged networking and then click

Next. What follows is the selection of a SCSI adapter, which doesn’t matter.

(In fact, for some other operating systems, you’ll need to disable the SCSI

support altogether.)

Just like with Microsoft Virtual PC, you’ll need to set up a virtual hard disk,

so on the Select a Disk page, choose Create a new virtual disk and click

Next. For the virtual disk type, select IDE. On the Specify Disk Capacity page,

choose a large Maximum disk size—at least 100 GB, since you can’t easily

enlarge it later—and make sure the Allocate all disk space now option is not

checked.

Complete the wizard and then click Finish. If all is well, VMware will auto-

matically start the virtual machine, load the Windows 7 installer, and get to

work.

Akin to Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Additions described earlier in this section,

VMware offers VMware Tools, which allow you to easily move your mouse

pointer in and out of the VMware session window. From VMware’s VM menu,

select Install VMware Tools, and then follow the prompts to install.

Virtual Glass

Neither

Virtual PC nor VMware gives the guest operating system low-level

access to your PC’s hardware. This means it can’t play with your 3D video

card, and thus can’t display Aero Glass. But there is a nifty workaround if you

want Glass on your Virtual Windows 7 or Vista: use Remote Desktop!

If your host OS is Windows 7, you’re using Windows Virtual PC, and you

have Aero Glass enabled on the host, just fire up Virtual PC and from the

Tools menu, select Enable Integration Features.

But what if your host OS is Vista or an earlier version? You can do it, provided

your guest OS is the Professional edition or better.

On the guest OS, open the System page in Control Panel and click the Remote

settings link on the left side. In the Remote Desktop section, select either

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