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Double click it and you will see Steam License Agreement.Īccept it and after that some updates will be downloaded before playing games.Īfter update you will see normal Steam application. On login screen enter default SteamOS username steam and password steam and select Gnome as graphical user interface.Īfter login you will see Steam icon. Play it!įinally, after some time you can test new shiny SteamOS. Go to Hardware tab and change Analog Stereo Duplex to Analog Stereo Output, turn on sound and test speakers. Go to System Settings and then click Sound. If you don’t know how to install VMware Tools in Linux please follow this VMware KB guide Īfter VMware Tools are installed login to Default Xsession as a desktop as root.

restart SteamOS Virtual Machine so all VMware Tools drivers are loaded.

safely you can go for standard settings - just hit enter everywhere.

as root execute installation script.

extract files using command tar -zxf VMwareTools*.

copy VMware Tools tar file to home directory - cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools* /home/steam/.

Provide credentials for the desktop user and change the root password.Ĭlick on SteamOS Virtual Machine and select Install VMware Tools. Start Terminal and type sudo passwd root. As username enter desktop with password desktop. In order to change the root password from login screen select Default Xsession. Here are steps which I did to play games using SteamOS.

Wait for the installer - you don’t really have to do much there.Ĭonfiguring SteamOS for full gaming experienceĪfter installation, there are several steps to make SteamOS fully work in VMware Workstation.

Edit Virtual Machine configuration file (vmx) and add entry firmware = "efi"Īfter you will mount ISO in Virtual Machine CD-ROM power it on.

Guest Operating System - Linux, Debian 7 64-bit.

Hardware Compatibility - VMware Workstation 10.

When ISO is completed create empty custom Virtual Machine with following settings: Installing SteamOS as Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation

Click OK and go to File -> Save Compilation as ISO file and give desired ISO name.

Click Data -> Change File System and select ISO9660/ Joliet.

Select path to boot image: SteamOSInstallerbootgrubboot圆4.efi.Select Make disc bootable and set following settings. Drag SteamOS extracted files into compilation.Now we need to create ISO file from extracted files. In order to download SteamOS files simply click the following link.Īfter you download files, extract them into a folder.

In few steps, I will show you how to do it. I presume that you are here because you know what SteamOS is and you want to try run it as Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation on Windows. More information, of course, available on website The base system draws from Debian 7, code named Debian Wheezy. SteamOS is the first gaming Linux-based operating system.