Skip to content

Installing on VMWare Workstation

Madz edited this page Aug 17, 2024 · 5 revisions

Running The Sonic Kiosk image in VMWare Workstation

First obtain the image from here (I went with Sonic1.img.gz)

Install VMWare

Look up the version you need for your operating system

Converting the image

You will need to extract the image. On Windows I recommend using 7-zip

Downloading qemu-img

Windows: Download here Linux: Look up qemu-img in your distros package manager

Converting the image

.\qemu-img.exe convert -O vmdk sonic1.img sonic1.vmdk

This assumes there in the same directory

Running the image

Open VMWare and press File then New Virtual Machine

Click Custom then press next and set hardware compatability Workstation 17.0.

Click I will install the operating system later. Then press next

Choose the Guest operating system as Windows 7. Press next then name it whatever you like.

For firmware keep it as BIOS, for processor set Number of processors to 1 and Number of cores to 2, set the memory to as much as you want, use NAT as network choose LSI Logic SAS, press next and set the virtual disk type to sata.

For select a disk press Use an Existing virtual disk then press next, click browse and search for your disk, press next then press finish.

Now you can start your VM.

Setting Up VMWare tools

Download this version

If you are in the Sonic account press VM then send ctrl-alt-delete then press logoff and login to the admin account passwords if needed.

Once you are logged in insert the VMWare tools iso you downloaded and run setup (not setup64) then proceed with the vmware tools setup.

That's it you are now done with installing the Sonic Kiosk image on VMWare