The file is too large

Last post I mentioned about how I installed VMplayer.  I ran into a small issue while opening the OpenSUSE Linux image.  The size of the image is around 2.5 GB.   So, the VMPlayer gave me an error like “The file is too large”.  

Luckily for me, I came across this forum, on which the following suggestion was made

Try adding
diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= “false”
to the vmx-file – maybe that helps.

I added diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= “false” to my vmx file and bingo, the image opened without any further issues!! 

Now I have a fully functional Linux.  It comes with lot of tools like an browser – which can actually connect to Internet without any configuration!, games, chat applications, Office editors, pdf reader!!  Its great!   

Now I need to install oracle on it and play around with it!

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