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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

Making screen movies


If you really want it to be clear what to do with your virtual machine when sharing it with others, you may like the Capture Movie feature that you can find in the VM menu for every virtual machine. This feature allows you to capture movies of everything you do on a virtual machine. Especially if used with a voice-over that explains what you are doing, the Capture Movie feature is extremely useful.

Before starting to capture a movie, it is a good idea to enable sound. This allows you to use the microphone on your computer to add explanation about what you're doing. By default, no sound is enabled in VMware Workstation movies.

To add sound, you need to change the contents of the config.ini file. If you're using a Windows host, you can find this file in C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation. In this file, add the line mks.movie.config.high.recordSound="TRUE" and restart VMware Workstation.

Tip

The config.ini file is in the hidden directory ProgramData in C:. Make sure to...