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Windows 2000 Server ......................................................................................................... 13
Windows 7 ....................................................................................................................... 13
Windows Vista .................................................................................................................. 13
Windows XP SP3 .............................................................................................................. 13
Installing Linux VMs ................................................................................... 14
Installing the Demo Linux VM template ........................................................................................... 15
Installing Debian Lenny ................................................................................................................ 16
Apt repositories and Lenny .................................................................................................. 18
Installing Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise, and SUSE Enterprise Linux .............................................. 18
Installing Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise, and SUSE Enterprise Linux from vendor media .............. 19
Installing Linux from a network installation server to a VM ............................................................ 20
Installing RHEL using a kickstart file ....................................................................................... 21
Installing the Linux guest agent ..................................................................................................... 22
Time handling in Linux VMs ......................................................................................................... 22
Configuring VNC for VMs ............................................................................................................ 23
Enabling a graphical console on Red Hat, CentOS, or Oracle Linux VMs ......................................... 23
Determining the location of your VNC configuration file ....................................................... 24
Configuring GDM to use VNC ....................................................................................... 24
Firewall settings ......................................................................................................... 25
VNC screen resolution ................................................................................................ 25
Setting up SLES-based VMs for VNC ..................................................................................... 25
Checking for a VNC server .......................................................................................... 26
Enabling Remote Administration .................................................................................... 26
Modifying the xinetd configuration .................................................................................. 26
Firewall settings ......................................................................................................... 27
VNC screen resolution ................................................................................................ 27
Checking runlevels ............................................................................................................. 28
Preparing to clone a Linux VM ...................................................................................................... 28