I forgot to mention I used an IDE hard-drive in VMWare, not a SCSI one. Not sure if that matters though. And since I actually made mine too small (defaulted to 16GB) I simply added a second to provide extra space during the upgrade.
It works with VMWare, but there's a trick to it. As others have noted the ISO for 5728 doesn't play nice with VMWare and can't see where to install to. But RC1 will install. So I did the following:
Download RC1 (build 5600), create a virtual machine with about 20 GB of harddrive space (minimum) set the 5600 ISO as the VMWare CD-drive.
Install 5600 to the VM's harddrive and configure. I installed some stuff at this point (VMWare Tools & Firefox) but I'm pretty sure you don't need tools yet.
Get the 5728 ISO set it as the CD-drive. DO NOT boot from the CD, just from harddrive.
Run the CDs autorun from inside 5600, choose upgrade - this is why you need a big HD, for some reason it needs/thinks it needs 10GB or more free to upgrade - go through the whole process.
Reboot several times in the process, finally boot into 5728 working in VMWare.
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I forgot to mention I used an IDE hard-drive in VMWare, not a SCSI one. Not sure if that matters though. And since I actually made mine too small (defaulted to 16GB) I simply added a second to provide extra space during the upgrade.
It works with VMWare, but there's a trick to it. As others have noted the ISO for 5728 doesn't play nice with VMWare and can't see where to install to. But RC1 will install. So I did the following: Download RC1 (build 5600), create a virtual machine with about 20 GB of harddrive space (minimum) set the 5600 ISO as the VMWare CD-drive. Install 5600 to the VM's harddrive and configure. I installed some stuff at this point (VMWare Tools & Firefox) but I'm pretty sure you don't need tools yet. Get the 5728 ISO set it as the CD-drive. DO NOT boot from the CD, just from harddrive. Run the CDs autorun from inside 5600, choose upgrade - this is why you need a big HD, for some reason it needs/thinks it needs 10GB or more free to upgrade - go through the whole process. Reboot several times in the process, finally boot into 5728 working in VMWare.