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Each download is a bzipped tarball containing a vmdk image and a simple config file for running under vmware:

The naming convention of the download tarball is:

<distribution>.<distro-version>.<arch>.<created-date>.vmdk.tar.bz2.

All of the packages installed in the image will be the latest versions available as of the created date, which is in yyyy-mm-dd format.

The vmdk images are stored in vmware's disk image format with a single partition. The partition can be loop mounted as follows:

vmware-mount centos.5-5.x86-64.20100813.vmdk 1 /mnt/loop/ 

or see the link at bottom for a HOWTO on mounting vmdk's using guestfish.

1. Working installation of vmware
2. Enough filesystem space to accomodate the uncompressed tarball (generally 1GB)

The root login is root/password. It is highly recommened that you change the root password immediately.

You will need to uncompress the tarball to a local directory. Use the .vmx file to launch, eg (assuming you are using vmware player) :

# vmplayer centos.5-5.x86-64.20100813.vmx 

If all is well you will see the guest’s boot messages scrolling by.

• Mount a QCOW or VMDK File
• Clone/Resize a QCOW or VMDK File