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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

Installing a Linux virtual machine


Installing a Windows virtual machine is easy as Windows integrates very well in VMware. Installing a Linux virtual machine is a bit more difficult because you'll need to install the VMware Tools in the Linux operating system. In the following procedure, you can read about how to handle the VMware-specific parts of the installation on a Linux virtual machine.

The beginning of the installation procedure for a Linux virtual machine is very similar to the installation of a Windows virtual machine. With Linux, it is even more important to select the option I will install the operating system later to avoid an easy install. This is because Linux has so many options that can be modified to match the needs of the user, and if you use an easy install, all you get is default values.

Some Linux distributions don't show the graphical display as they should. To fix this, stop the installation and navigate to Virtual Machine Settings | Hardware. From there, navigate to...