Hi all, Just want to share with everybody the VMPlayer + QEMU + FC5 Kickstart install. <a href="http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html">http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html </a> Install VMPlayer with QEMU on WinXP first. Generate the vmdx file with %PATHtoQEMU%\qemu-image create -f vmdk FC5.vmdk 2 G Generate VMX file using: <a href="http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html"> http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html</a> -- config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "3" MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE" MemTrimRate = "-1" uuid.location = "56 4d d7 8c 71 4e 0f 6a-94 30 1e b8 fd 5e cb 10" uuid.bios = "56 4d d7 8c 71 4e 0f 6a-94 30 1e b8 fd 5e cb 10" uuid.action = "create" checkpoint.vmState = " FC5.vmss" displayName = "Fedora Core 5" guestOS = "other26xlinux" memsize = "512" ethernet0.present = "TRUE" ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" ethernet0.address = "00:0c:29:7e:06:58" usb.present = "TRUE" usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE" sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualdev = "sb16" scsi0.present = "FALSE" floppy0.present = "TRUE" floppy0.fileName = "" floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE" ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "FC5.vmdk" ide0:0.deviceType = "disk" ide0:0.mode = "persistent" ide0:0.redo = "" ide0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE" ide0: 0.startConnected = "TRUE" ide0:1.present = "TRUE" ide0:1.fileName = "auto detect" ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE" ide0:1.startConnected = "TRUE" ide1:0.present = "FALSE" ide1:1.present = "FALSE" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5e:cb:10" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" -- Inset the FC5 boot CD, and start the kickstart....done. One problem I had was that the installing process got stuck at "starting the installing process, this may take a few minutes" for almost 20 min, and it finally started, I guess that still qualify as "a few minutes" depends on how you look at it. - Yang