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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

Using VMware appliances


Instead of creating all the virtual machines yourself, you can also use virtual appliances. A virtual appliance is a ready-to-use virtual machine that you can download from the VMware Marketplace at solutionexchange.vmware.com.

Downloading virtual appliances from VMware Marketplace

On every virtual appliance that you find on the VMware Marketplace, there is a try now button. Click on it to get access to a download page where you can access the compressed virtual machine files. After downloading these files, you can copy them to the Virtual Machines folder and open them in VMware Workstation of VMware Player like you would do with any other virtual machine that you've just copied over.

If you really want your virtual machines to be available for a broad public, you can apply for a virtual appliance partnership. After getting this partnership (which will not be free), you can build an appliance according to the VMware specifications and upload it to the Marketplace. From...