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VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary

By : Sander van Vugt
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VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary

By: Sander van Vugt

Overview of this book

VMware Workstation runs on Linux as well as Windows hosts and handles different virtual machine formats, which allows you to share your work with users of other virtualization platforms, including VirtualBox, VMware Player, and VMware vSphere environments. VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary helps you in getting started with VMware Workstation. You'll learn how to install VMware Workstation in any circumstance, and how to create virtual machines and keep different configurations for each virtual machine, which helps in setting up extensive test environments. You'll also learn how to share these virtual machines with users of other virtualization products as well as the cloud. In VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary you'll start learning about different virtualization solutions. In this introduction you'll learn how VMware Workstation differs from other workstation virtualization platforms such as Oracle Virtual Box, and from data centre virtualization solutions such as VMware vSphere. Next, you'll learn how to install VMware Workstation on either a Windows or a Linux host and how to create virtual machines on these host platforms. After installing virtual machines, you'll learn about advanced virtual machine features, including advanced networking and storage setups, which allow you to mirror a data centre setup as closely as possible. An important part of the setup of such an environment is working with snapshots and clones, which is discussed in detail. You'll also learn how to use virtual machines that are created on other host computers. The final part of the book teaches you how to share virtual machines with others. You'll learn how to upload virtual machines to VMware vSphere, and how to share virtual machines with users of VMware Player.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring virtual networks


To configure networking in VMware Workstation, you'll use the Virtual Network Editor. You can find this tool in the Edit menu of VMware Workstation (see the following screenshot). By default, it shows the three networks that are created at all times: a bridged network with the name vmnet0, a host-only network on vmnet1, and a NAT network on vmnet8. For each of the network types you can set some specific properties.

Specifying Virtual Network Properties

Setting bridged network properties

When using bridged network, you'll need to specify what network interface you want to bridge the virtual machines to. This is in particular important if you're on a laptop that has a LAN network interface as well as a Wi-Fi interface. The default setting is Automatic, which means that VMware Workstation tries to bridge VMs to the network interface that it detects as available. This doesn't always work well and therefore, you can specify that a virtual machine is always bridged to...