I've just done a quick install of this app - Registration is free and will likely unlock the greyed out options.
What you'll need to do then is first connect to the local machine when you're prompted, and then create a new Virtual machine using the options to pick hardware types etc. From here you'll basically get a boot screen where you can install any OS you have either on CD, or mount one from a CD ISO image.
Took me about 45 minutes total to get a virtual ubuntu machine playing nicely with pretty much all my hardware. Pretty handy and will mean anything you do on your VM will be sandboxed and unable to mess with your main operting system
Havelock
Hi Havelock..
Thanks for doing that it was some help.
I now have a password.
But there was no password screen I could access to put it in, so I reinstalled/repaired still no screen, so I un-installed rebooted and re- installed put password in rebooted opened up 'VM ware server console' still grey out a lot of it.
On opening the VM ware server console' I get a 'select the vmware host you want to connect to' box up, so I set the radio button to 'local' click 'ok' then I get error "There was a problem connecting: 511 vmware-serverd service is not running." Is that because I have not yet installed a second OS ?. Did you get that ?.
As my Brain is worn out can you take me through the steps from when you installed the vmware server (is it version 1.0.1 build 29996 ?) to installing the second os please.
Michael .
ps The base os is W2K pro.