QEMU is an open source virtualization solution written by Fabrice Bellard. There are two ways to get a clean disk image for your virtual machine. If you start off with a nearly empty hard disk image, a filesystem like ext2 or ext3, will be able to detect the file as being sparse and optimize its usage accordingly. The best thing to have would be a clean hard disk image in a reasonable size which you could use to format. Also, since they are already filled with data you don't really benefit from sparse file support from your filesystem once you format them from within the virtual machine. One of the "problems" you could have with the premade images for VMWare Player is that they don't come in the sizes and formatting you'd like. In this article I'll be referring mostly to VMWare Player, but you can also create VMWare Server images using the steps described. The trick to getting more out the VMWare Player and VMWare Server than a few premade images is actually two-fold, let me guide you through the process of almost getting a free VMWare Workstation replacement. Installing the software is fairly straightforward and there are some great guides over at the Ubuntu forum on how to do this. I'm using VMWare Player under both Ubuntu Linux 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog and Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Breezy Badger.
Luckily you can create them on your own without too much hassle. They offer some premade disk images for use with the Player and Server technology, but they do not offer software to create new virtual machines or images. VMWare recently introduced their VMWare Player and VMWare Server products for Windows and Linux.
VMWare Player Image Creation Introduction Background
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