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 ===Fedora 11===
 VMware Player will not load in Fedora 11 beta or Fedora Preview loaded with shell command; One gets "Unable to modify kernel" error and quits.
+====Soas2 .iso installed to VM Hard Disk====
+  adapted from:
+ http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_en_CM
+ http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMWare/Preparing_a_disk_image
+*VMware Workstation 6.5.2
+*Linux Redhat 5
+*Soas .iso as CD (I used  Soas2-200906031834.iso for this install)
+*1024 memory
+*Bridged Networking
+*start VM
+*Log in and select color
+*start terminal
+ su -
+ yum install anaconda
+ enter command:liveinst
+ /dev/sda1
+ custom
+ to Max Size
+ /boot
+ ext3 (no swap)      {Installer will reformat drive}
+ (Do normal Installation, shutdown and change VM CD to use physical drive-autoselect.
+*Power On Virtual Machine
+*log in as root (with password entered in installation)
+  yum install @gnome-desktop gdm (172 files 232MB)
+  yum install sugar-emulator
+*StartX
+*Go to User manager and enter new user
+*Log out of root and log in as New User
+*startx
+*In gnome-terminal enter sugar-emulator.
+ I was unable to install system-switch-displaymanager due to plymouth dependency errors thus it will not go into init level 5 and gdm
+SUGAR Installed this way in a VM Appliance Works in this initial attempt but needs some more work- Please add to this if you have a better solution.
+This VM Application can be cloned in VMWorkstation and copied to a USB stick and run with VMPlayer.
 === Spin of Sugar on Fedora F11 preview live===
 http://spins.fedoraproject.org/torrents//F11-Preview-i686-Live-Edu.torrent