The Artica ISO is regulary tested on a vmware server.
Before reading this document, understand that the Artica ISO overwrite datas on your hard drive, so please... Use this iso on blank vmware guest image.
Get the latest ISO from Artica web site (http://www.artica.fr/index.php?ID=1836) and put it on your vmware server host.
Open the vmware server console and create a new guest virtual machine.
Create a "Typical Machine configuration"
The operating system that will be installed is debian, So use "Ubuntu" has the typical Guest Operating system
Set the name of your new guest
Define the network using bridged networking
After finish your virtual machine, double-click on the CD-ROM setting
When booting, select in the menu the desired server context.
Warning after choosing the context, it will be too late, all datas will be overwritten
Wait the automatic installation during few minutes
When finish the setup ask you to press "Return key"
Wait for the reboot and type root for login and "artica" for the password
Wait Xwindows system booting
artica-interface will automatically start after the boot
in order to finish the installation, click on "stop artica" button
artica-interface show you that artica service is stopped
click now on "start artica"
Now the artica service is started, you can go to the end-user interface
