Installing Windows 7 Guest on VMWare 7 on OpenSuse 11.3 Host

Maybe this will help anyone else stuck on the installation. For a long while my Windows 7 install inside VMWare 7 would get stuck at “expanding files 0%”. I kept thinking it was my machine and setup that was causing issue, after all a x64 tablet pc is not your

openSUSE 11 on Lenovo Thinkpad X61 (tablet pc)

I have this weird ability to fall in love with gadgets that are not yet on the market… Twice in a row when choosing my laptop tablet pcs I went for something that will be available soon. This has the unfortunate disadvantage of being firstly very pricey, and secondly not