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Create a New Virtual Machine With VMware's Fusion

By Tom Nelson, About.com

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Select a Name and Location for Your New Virtual Machine

It's time to select a storage location for your new virtual machine. By default, Fusion uses your Home directory (~/vmware) as the preferred location for virtual machines, but you can store them anywhere you like, such as on a specific partition or on a hard drive dedicated to virtual machines.

Name That Virtual Machine

  1. Enter a name for your new virtual machine in the ‘Save as:’ field.

  2. Select a storage location by using the dropdown menu.

    • The current default location. This will either be the last location you selected to store a virtual machine (if you have previously created one), or the default location of ~/vmware.

    • Other. Use this option to select a new location using a standard Mac Finder window.

  3. Make your selection. For this guide, we'll accept the default location, which is the vmware folder in your Home directory.

  4. Click the ‘Continue’ button.

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