VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary电子书

VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary

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VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary

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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