Creating a VMWARE Image with VMWARE Player

I remember someone saying that it was not possible to create a vmware image from scratch with vmware player itself. This tool was supposed to be used only to run vmware images. While i thought that this was a bit weird at that time, today i found out that he was not totally wrong. However, i still got to create a vmware by using a workaround solution which consists of:

(1) Creating an empty hard disk image

(2) Using a vmware configuration file template and customising it to my needs.

While these might take a bit of time, I found out that the following site (http://www.easyvmx.com/new-easyvmx.shtml) allowed users to do just the above through a nifty web interface.

After creating and downloading an empty vmware with my desired configuration from the above web site, I started it with vmware player. However, in order to install my operating system, I had to change the CD ROM boot sequence in BIOS as I wanted my ISO file to be loaded at boot time.

The following article (http://blogbuildingu.com/articles/using-vmware-player-to-create-images-for-new-virtual-machines) has been helpful in understanding this workaround though some of the configuration steps which were independent from the easyvmx website did not work for me. It might be worth a look though.