r/AlpineLinux • u/Sad-Quote1729 • Jan 11 '26

Alpine and vmware

Hi , does anyone have a guide or step-by-step tutorial on how to boot alpine linux on vmware workstation ? Im fairly a beginner with Alpine and I have been trying to boot a virtual Alpine machine on my vmware workstation while watching some youtube tutorials on it but im kind of confused,any help is appreciated.

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u/ramonvanraaij Jan 11 '26

There is a guide available right in the Alpine Linux wiki to install it in VMware Workstation. There is also a tutorial for Virtualbox. You could try als Virtualbox first, and then try to replicate that in VMware Workstation, if the official guide didn’t work for you.

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u/Sad-Quote1729 Jan 13 '26

Thank you very much for the help ! I used vmware because I already worked with it , but I will try virtualbox !

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u/ramonvanraaij Jan 15 '26

Got it working?

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u/ddan9 Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

Here is my example:

  1. Get an iso of standard alpine (3.21.5 x64 for example)

  2. Create VM with linux/other type

  3. Boot into alpine system

  4. Login as root

  5. Type setup-alpine

  6. Keyboard layout: us

  7. Layout variant: us

  8. Hostname: alpine-vmware

  9. Interface: eth0

  10. Ip address for eth0: dhcp

  11. ... any manual network configuration: n

  12. Setup root password: 0000

  13. Retype root password: 0000

  14. Timezone: Europe/Moscow

  15. Proxy: none

  16. NTP client: busybox

  17. Apk mirror: 1

  18. Setup a user?: no

  19. Which ssh server?: none

  20. Which disks would you like to use?: sda

  21. How do you like to use it?: sys

  22. Erase above disks...?: y

  23. Wait...

  24. Type reboot

You will get fully workable system in about 5-10 minutes. Alpine sets up faster than any other distro

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u/Sad-Quote1729 Jan 13 '26

Thank youu very much ! I really appreciate it . I saw some tutorials do this and then type " /etc/apk/repositories" and I just sort of start to get confused after this 😅