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    VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary
    VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary
    VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary
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    VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary

    By Sander van Vugt

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    This book is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and managing virtual machines using VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation: No Experience Necessary is for developers as well as system administrators who want to efficiently set up a test environment .You should have basic networking knowledge, and prior experience with Virtual Machines and VMware Player would be beneficial.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateAug 26, 2013
    ISBN9781849689199
    VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary

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      VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary - Sander van Vugt

      Table of Contents

      VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Installing VMware Workstation

      Configuring the host computer

      CPU and CPU cores

      Memory

      Disk space

      Getting VMware Workstation

      Purchasing VMware Workstation

      Setting up your VMware account

      Installing VMware Workstation on Windows

      Installing VMware Workstation on Linux

      Starting VMware Workstation for the first time

      Summary

      2. Installing Virtual Machines

      Before you start

      Starting the installation

      RAM and CPU

      Networking

      Disk options

      Installing a Windows 8 virtual machine

      Installing a Linux virtual machine

      Summary

      3. Working with Virtual Machines

      Performing common tasks

      Working with hardware

      Booting your virtual machine from a CD-ROM

      Modifying virtual hardware

      Working with shared folders

      Setting virtual machine options

      Automatic snapshots

      Time synchronization

      VNC connections

      Securing virtual machines

      Summary

      4. VMware Workstation behind the Scenes

      Understanding VMware Workstation files

      VMware Workstation program files and services

      Program files on Windows hosts

      Program files on Linux hosts

      VMware services

      Working with VMware Workstation files

      VMware Workstation virtual machine definition files

      VMware Workstation disk files

      Configuring advanced storage

      Using devices as virtual machine disks

      Mounting virtual disk files

      Managing VMware virtual disks

      Summary

      5. Networking VMware Workstation

      Using different networking modes

      Using bridged networking

      Using NATted networking

      Using host-only networking

      Configuring virtual networks

      Setting bridged network properties

      Setting host-only network properties

      Setting NAT network properties

      Creating your own virtual network

      Using advanced network properties on virtual machines

      Setting advanced network properties on virtual machines

      Using multiple network cards within a virtual machine

      Summary

      6. Accessing Virtual Machines Remotely

      Setting up shared machines with the VMware Web Service

      Shared virtual machines and user accounts

      Creating a Windows user account

      Creating a Linux user account

      Sharing a virtual machine

      Accessing a shared virtual machine

      Using VNC for remote virtual machine access

      Enabling VNC access on a virtual machine

      Connecting remotely to virtual machines using VNC

      Using TeamViewer for remote access through a firewall

      Installing the TeamViewer agent

      Using the TeamViewer client

      Accessing VMware Workstation from tablets and mobile devices

      Summary

      7. Converting Virtual Machines

      Converting physical machines to VMware Workstation

      Virtualizing a physical Windows machine with VMware Converter

      Performing a physical-to-virtual conversion of computers running Linux

      Performing a V2V conversion and virtual machine import

      Importing raw image files into VMware Workstation

      Importing VMDK files into VMware Workstation

      Importing other disk file formats into VMware Workstation using OVF

      Importing third-party virtual machines using VMware vCenter Converter

      Summary

      8. Cloning and Snapshots

      Understanding when to apply which tools

      Working with snapshots

      Creating snapshots

      Reverting a snapshot

      Using autoprotect snapshots

      Snapshots and powering off

      Working with the Snapshot Manager

      Creating clones

      Preparing virtual machines before cloning

      Using Sysprep on Windows to create a template

      Backups in a virtual environment

      Summary

      9. Sharing Virtual Machines

      Uploading virtual machines to vSphere and the cloud

      Making virtual machines ready for vSphere

      Uploading virtual machines to vSphere

      Sharing virtual machines with VMware Player

      Preparing to move virtual machines to VMware Player

      Starting a copied virtual machine for the first time

      Using VMware appliances

      Making screen movies

      Summary

      Index

      VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary

      VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary

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      Credits

      Author

      Sander van Vugt

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      About the Author

      Sander van Vugt is an independent author, consultant, and technical trainer, living in Netherlands. He is specialized in open source software and virtualization. He has written over 50 books on many subjects, most of them about Linux. As a consultant he has realized numerous projects involving open source software and virtualization for different companies around the world. You can find more information about him on his website, www.sandervanvugt.com.

      About the Reviewers

      Sean Duffy is a virtualization evangelist, programmer, and general technical enthusiast living in the South West of England. He has worked in the virtualization and cloud computing space since circa 2007, garnering an appreciation and enjoyment of the technologies surrounding these industries.

      Thriving off of helping others, Sean enjoys sharing knowledge around the technical topics he is most enthused about. Over the last five years he has run a blog, Shogan.tech, discussing ideas, projects, and technical articles covering topics such as Virtualization, Scripting, and Automation. He is also an author on the popular technical journal and community hub website, Simple-Talk, and runs a second blog dedicated to his passion for creating games and programming.

      He holds various Virtualization and Cloud certifications, and has been awarded the title VMware vExpert for the years 2012 and 2013.

      Sean is currently working as a Technical Consultant for Xtravirt Limited in the United Kingdom, where he enjoys exposure to many different technologies across the Virtualization, Cloud and End User Computing stacks.

      I would like to thank my wife, Carmen for her support and patience over the years I have spent chasing my passion for technology.

      Frederik Vos, living in Berkenwoude, a small town near Gouda in Netherlands, has been working as a senior technical trainer of virtualization technologies, such as Citrix XenServer, and VMware vSphere. He has specialized in data center infrastructures (hypervisor, network, and storage) and cloud computing (cloudstack, cloudplatform, and openstack). He is also a Linux trainer and evangelist. He has a lot of knowledge as a teacher and also real-world experience as a system engineer.

      For the last six years Frederik is working for XTG in Gouda, a training-center specialized in virtualization and Linux. XTG is one of the biggest VMWare authorized training center (VATC) in Netherlands, and has received several awards from both VMware and Citrix.

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      Preface

      VMware is the world leader in virtualization solutions. VMware offers products to virtualize the data center, and also solutions that help you set up test environments. This book is about VMware Workstation, the most versatile solution that can be used to set up a test environment to develop new software solutions, or to test complex architecture before taking it into production.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Installing VMware Workstation, explains how to install VMware Workstation on Windows or Linux computers. It also describes the recommended hardware to set up a virtualization environment.

      Chapter 2, Installing Virtual Machines, describes what to do before even starting the installation of the first virtual machine, such as setting up storage or networking. It also explains how to create different types of virtual machines.

      Chapter 3, Working with Virtual Machines, shows you how to get around and perform some of the most common tasks in VMware Workstation as VMware Workstation offers several options to make it

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