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Where can i find this thread? I'm running Windows 7 as a guest on CentOS and would like to upgrade to win 10
Hi thereWhere can i find this thread? I'm running Windows 7 as a guest on CentOS and would like to upgrade to win 10
For Centos 7 / 7.1 (I haven't used Centos 6 / 6.5 for ages - so if you have that release you'll have to google further !!).
If you have the latest kernel - download the kernel headers, gcc, kernel-devel, dkms and ensure you have EPEL rel 7 added to your repos.
Then simply download latest VMware workstation / VMware player bundle from VMware site (if you are using VMware) and as root run the bundle.
It should compile fine, Then start VMware as a user and point to your VM config file.
From INSIDE the vm simply upgrade to W10 via Windows update -- you'll need your W7 key to activate the new W10 system..
I'm using latest Centos 7.0 / 7.1 works brilliantly.
Same procedure I'd imagine for VBOX users.
Incidentally -- if you are using CENTOS with a GUI (GNOME, KDE etc) add the nux dextop to your epel list and install YUMEX -- this is a gui front end for Yum and when downloading say an rpm file it will install automatically (prompt for root password).
Don't forget also to add ntfs-3g if you want to read and write NTFS files.
CENTOS 7 -- to add EPEL repo : sudo yum install epel-release
to add nux dextop (contains Multi-media - VLC etc plus other goodies like YUMEX. Run as root or SUDO.
(If you have KDE desktop you can run a load of stuff from within the "File explorer" - Dolphin on KDE -- as a non root user type from a console KDESU DOLPHIN, enter root password and you've got the file explorer with root privileges).
rpm -Uvh
rpm --import
Enjoy. !!!
Cheers
jimbo
You might want to uninstall VMware tools in the guest, upgrade and then re-install them.
Upgrading the guest to Windows 10 version 1511 might prevent VMware Tools related features from working (2139517)
thanks guys
Hi thereYou might want to uninstall VMware tools in the guest, upgrade and then re-install them.
Upgrading the guest to Windows 10 version 1511 might prevent VMware Tools related features from working (2139517)
Thanks for that tip -- Until I did that I couldn't get any SOUND working in the Guest - not that for me is sound particularly important on the Guest - it works fine on the Host. However I do like to have a 100% working machine whether it's a VM or a physical machine.
Uninstall VMWARE tools on the guest and re-installed worked just fine (although until the vmware video adapter was re-installed - a 640 X 480 display on a huge monitor looked a bit odd !!!!) - Depending on your video you might find it easier to uninstall vmware tools on the NEW guest rather than from the old OS (W7) first . Do whatever works best.
Cheers
jimbo
