You choose the guest operating system you want to run in the virtual machine. If you are planning to use more than one virtual machine, you can run the Configuration Wizard again later to create additional virtual machines.
The guest operating systems listed in the drop-down list box are those supported for use in VMware GSX Server.
Select the operating system from this list that is closest to the operating system you are going to install in the virtual machine. The operating system choice is used to name the virtual machine and to select the amount of memory to provide for the virtual machine. Later, the Configuration Editor can be used to change the selected guest operating system and the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine.
Guest operating systems that are not listed in the drop-down list box may also run but may not be officially supported for use in VMware products. If you choose to install an unsupported guest operating system, choose the Other option.
Note: It is generally not possible or advisable to run the host operating system again inside the virtual machine. Doing so may cause the host system to crash and possibly cause disk corruption if two operating systems attempt to concurrently use the same disk partitions.
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