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I'm running Windows XP on the host machine and am just installing Linux as the first VM. I'm new to Linux and would appreciate some guidance on one of the wizard selections. I will use CentOS 5.3, but my choices through the wizard are Red Hat, Linux 2.6, and Other Linux. There is no CentOS option. Red Hat appears to be the closest, but I didn't want it to assume that this is Red Hat if there are some options involved that are not in CentOS. Which option should I pick for CentOS 5.3 32 -bit?

A secondary question is whether you typically pick Dynamic Storage or Fixed for the HD. I'm assuming Dynamic.

Thanks!

It doesn't really matter what you pick, all these things do is make certain default settings that could be optimum settings, like RAM and NIC type, but you can always change that. Picking Linux 2.6 for example will be just fine.

Disk type is a personal thing too. Dynamic is the default, because you start with a small file that will slowly grow to the size you gave it during creation. Fixed size will take a longer time to create and will have the full size you gave it (20 GB drive will be a 20 GB file).

Sounds good. Thanks for your help!

This guide can be helpful as well (http://8thstring.blogspot.com/2009/10/i ... tions.html). This was on Fedora 11 though, which is a cousin of Redhat (RHEL). CentOS is derived from RHEL if I remember it correctly.