All-in-one guide for installing BT2 to VMWare 6 along with VMWare Tools

[operatorone]

nice tutorial, too bad I didn't hit the forums for it until AFTER I did this project this afternooon. heh. Needed the tips for vmtool though, so thanks.

[cyberconsole]

Thanks for this.

[Cinder]

baxter I was just curious how you got the network adapter to work in vmware. I put bt in a virtual machine on another computer but it doesn't see my ath0 card. or any body that knows for that matter

Internal cards, as well as PCMCIA cards won't work in VMware... USB ones will work though, so if you don't wanna dual boot or run off the Live CD, you're shit out of luck, no offense...

[SLK001]

You need a couple of extra steps to get your swap space to be useable. If you enter

free -mot

you will probably see for the swap 0 0 0. If you do, then enter the following:

mkswap -c /dev/sda2

Enter the above around the same time that you run your mkfs.ext3 commands.

At the first reboot, enter this:

swapon -a

On your next reboot, enter this:

free -mot

You should now see your swap space available for use. If you used the 512MB as shown above, you should see: 512 0 0.

[imported_wyze]

ok that help so my netgear card is out. what about my internal intel 3495 pro wireless. I tried to load the drivers and the device was not detected so I'm assuming that's out so that leaves me with usb. I've never used a usb card before so can some recommend a usb card that works right out of the box and preferebly atheros

can't really give my 2 cents on atheros usb PH, but the ralink wusb54gc has been a godsend for me personally... it's a very solid card

[salmon86]

I've been running bt on vmware for about 2 weeks now. Learned the hard way but managed to get it installed. This will come in handy for installing the vmtools.

Nice tut.

[raffneck]

finished installing bt2 on vmware......nice tutorial.......thanks

[CombatWombat]

Thank you ND4SPD, your guide was great!

[JF1980]

Why do you create a dedicated boot partition and then go on to leave it unused?

[goon123]

This installation methode is some kind of different, so i have some understanding questions.

I used bt2final at a vmware station earlier but only booted form the iso at my internal hard drive. and that was it. but after i while i get panic with collecting iv's because there was not much storage/memory left.dont know if it is that in english. however it worked.

now i see this tutorial and i dont know what it realy is about. so you install bt2 like a normal hard drive installtation direct from the vmware and download some vmware-tools and than play it in vmware.

is it possible to do the installation on a usb drive and use this with vmware?

also, vmware is a virtual machine and i dont get the point using a real installed backtrack on vmware. what is this like. a virtul pc that has direct access to the real installation and uses the real storage/memory/space on the usb stick or in your case hard drive. can you explain my what this is about? some difficult missunderstandings, because maybe of the language. excuse me