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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

Chapter 6. Accessing Virtual Machines Remotely

When setting up a serious test environment, it may be useful to make the machines accessible from a distance. Even if you're using VMware Workstation on your own computer, there are different ways in which you can accomplish this. In this chapter, you'll read how to use VNC, the VMware web service, and VNC on individual machines to access virtual machines remotely.

If you're running a big test environment with multiple virtual machines, it can be useful to enable remote access. Generically speaking, there are three different methods to do this:

  • The first method is by using the VMware web service. This approach allows you to enable access to all virtual machines that you're hosting in an easy way.

  • The second method is by enabling VNC remote access on individual virtual machines.

  • The third method is by using an external solution such as TeamViewer, which allows remote access to the host computer and everything running on it. This is great if the host...