VMware Workstation 8 Tutorials
Getting Started with Workstation / VM Features and Specs pt. 2
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Welcome to Part 2 of Virtual Machine Features and Specs and just as a quick reminder, not to drive you nuts but we're talking about virtual machines created with VMware's Workstation product. Now when we're talking about IDE drives with our virtual machines, you can access up to four devices with a virtual machine. Now here's one caveat you need to watch for, DVD disks can be used but only to read data into the virtual machine. You can't use them for video, it's not supported and so that's just going to be a limitation you have to live with for now with Workstation. Now the disk that you use for your virtual machines in Workstation, can be either virtual which means it's kind of a little parking lot area out there on your host systems disk or it can be a total separate physical disk and you can go either way. Now Virtual Disks have a 2 terabyte limit, the Physical Disk can be the size of the disk. CD ROM drives can be either physical CD ROM drives or and this was the really cool feature about virtual computing the first time you ever saw it was, that you could use ISO Image Files and they would behave as a CD with an ISO File burned onto it. So I can just download an ISO Image, say from Microsoft's side of an operating system or a particular application say like Office and then I can access that ISO Image File as if I put a CD ROM disk into the drive. So that's a really cool feature. Now let's talk about SCSI Drives, you can have up to 60 devices, that's not a misprint, up to 60 devices on the SCSI side. The disk again can be virtual or physical, your virtual disks again have a 2 terabyte limit. Then when your talking about Serial and Parallel Ports on a virtual machine, you can have up to 4 Serial or COM Ports and you can have up 3 LPT or Bi-directional Parallel Ports. So you can set those up and access them through the virtual machine, then we were talking about USB Ports. USB 1.1 version ports are supported by default, so if I create a virtual machine using VMware Workstation, USB 1.1 is happening, I don't have to worry about it. If I want 2.0, I'll have to go configure it in the Virtual Machine Settings. Okay. So you have to kind of go and turn that on to get USB 2.0 to get the upgraded speed and so forth. Now watch for this one, USB 3.0 is supported only in Linux Guests running Kernel Version 2.6.35 or later through a Virtual X8CI USB Controller. Now the Windows Operating Systems don't have a generic X8CI USB Controller out there yet so you can't use USB 3.0 in a Windows Guest Virtual Machine. So just kind of watch of that, if it's a limiting factor you'll just have to deal with it for awhile. Now on the networking inside a Workstation Virtual Machine, you're going to have three Ethernet Switches configured by Default. Now watch this term Switches because we haven't really been thinking this way, especially in the Microsoft world for awhile, but it's going to click as soon as you see this. There is a Bridged Switch, a Host Only Ethernet Switch and NAT. Now really what we normally think off when we see things, is we just see network functionality. Okay. Bridged means that the Virtual Ethernet Functionality of my virtual machine is connected out directly to the actual physical network adapter in my host system. And so as a result, I'm going to share the IP address and it's just going to be kind of bridged through. Host Only means that the Ethernet Functionality works only in this host and I can communicate with another host but I can't communicate out to my host system or to the outside world. So Host Only is great for building kind of Test Ethernet Environments within a host system but you don't want to get out to the outside world. NAT, Network Address Translation is just what it's always been, a separate interior IP address for your virtual machine, a different exterior address for your host machine and then Address Translation can be used to make sure that everything moves back and forth. Now you can set up to 10 switches on a Windows Host Operating System so if you're running, you know, on a Windows Host OS, you get 10 switches. If you've installed VMware Workstation on a Linux Host, notice up to 255 switches can be built. Now when you're working with these switches, it supports most Ethernet Based Protocols and of course we're talking about everybody's favorite, TCP/IP, NetBEUI, Novel's Netware and the bottom line is pretty much, if it it's an Ethernet Based Protocol that is being used anywhere else, you're probably going to be able to use it in the virtual machine. So that's an idea of what you can expect to see, what you can configure and use inside your virtual machines in VMware Workstation.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | VMware Workstation 8 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34309 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-043-5 |
| Release Date: | 2012-05-04 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 99 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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