Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- What's Inside? -- What Is VMware Workstation? -- History of VMware -- What's New in Version 5? -- Multiple Snapshots -- Linked and Full Clones -- Linux User Interface -- Enhanced Networking Performance -- Improved Multi-VM Performance -- Improved Suspend/Resume and Snapshot Performance -- Isochronous USB Support -- Improved Memory Utilization -- Teams -- New Guest Operating System Support -- New Host Operating System Support -- New Command-Line Interface -- Movie Record and Playback -- NX Bit Support -- WMware Tools Improvements -- WMware Virtual Machine Importer -- Experimental Support for Guest ACPI S1 Sleep -- Windows Upgrade Installs -- What Was New in Version 4.x? -- What Was New in Version 4.5? -- What Was New in Version 4.5.2? -- Installation System Requirements -- Supported Guest Operating Systems -- Virtual Machine Hardware Overview -- VMware Workstation Resources -- Conventions Used in this Book -- 2 Installing VMware Workstation -- Installation Requirements -- Installing VMware Workstation on a Windows Platform -- Uninstalling VMware Workstation on a Windows Platform -- Unattended Installation of VMware Workstation -- Extracting the Installation Image -- Installing VMware Workstation on a Linux Platform -- RPM Installation -- Tar Archive Installation -- Configuring VMware Workstation on a Linux Platform -- Uninstalling VMware Workstation -- 3 Quick Tour of VMware Workstation -- VMware Workstation Control Center -- Working with the Menu Bar -- The File Menu -- The Edit Menu -- The View Menu -- The VM Menu -- The Team Menu -- The Windows Menu -- The Help Menu -- Working with the VMware Workstation Toolbar -- The Virtual Machine Settings -- Windows Systems Virtual Settings -- About Workstation Tabs -- About the Status Bar -- 4 Upgrading VMware Workstation.

Upgrading VMware Workstation 4.x to 5 on a Windows Host -- Upgrading VMware Workstation 4.x to 5 -- Run Legacy 4.x Virtual Machines Under 5 Without Upgrading -- Running the Installer -- Upgrading VMware Workstation 4.x to Workstation 5 on a Linux Host -- About the Tar Installer -- About the RMP Installer -- 5 Creating Virtual Machines -- Anatomy of a Virtual Machine -- Creating a Virtual Machine with a Windows Host Computer -- Creating a Virtual Machine with a Linux Host Computer -- 6 Installing Windows and Linux Guest Operating Systems -- CD-ROM versus ISO Image -- Booting from an ISO Image -- Installing Windows XP Professional/Windows 2003 Server -- Starting Your Virtual Machine -- Installing Windows XP Professional/Windows Server 2003 with a SCSI Drive -- Steps to Install Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 -- Installing Windows 98/ME -- Creating Virtual Floppies -- Preparing the Windows 98 Virtual Machine -- Starting your Virtual Machine -- Installing Longhorn (Experimental) -- The Longhorn Installation Process -- Installing Linux Guest Operating Systems -- Sun Java Desktop System 2 -- Installing SuSE Linux 9.1 -- Starting Your Virtual Machine -- Installing RedHat Linux 9.0 and Mandrake Linux 10.0 -- Starting Your Virtual Machine -- 7 Installing VMware Tools -- Installing VMware Tools for Windows Guest Operating Systems -- VMware Tools Configuration Options -- Installing VMware Tools for Linux -- Installing VMware Tools via the tar.gz Installer -- Installing VMware Tools via the RPM Installer -- 8 Managing and Working with Snapshots -- Definition of a Snapshot -- Using Snapshots as Restore Points -- Using Snapshots in a Tree Structure -- Creating Your First Snapshot -- Using the Snapshot Manager -- Delete a Snapshot -- Clone a Snapshot -- Go To Snapshot -- Edit a Snapshot Name and Description -- Revert versus Go To a Snapshot.

Working with Snapshot Settings -- 9 Cloning a VMware Workstation Virtual Machine -- Creating a Full Clone -- Creating a Linked Clone -- 10 Working with Teams -- What Are Teams? -- About Teams -- Create a Team -- Delete a Team -- Power On a Team -- Power Off a Team -- Open and Close a Team -- Suspend/Resume a Team -- Individual Snapshots within a Team -- Working with the Team Settings -- Connections -- Virtual Machines -- LAN Segments -- Options -- About Team Console -- Active Virtual Machine -- Inactive Virtual Machines -- 11 Securing VMware Workstation -- NTFS Security -- About Administrative Lockout -- Configuring Administrative Lockout -- Removing a Lost or Forgotten Password -- Graphical User Interface Security -- Restricting the User Interface -- 12 Networking Virtual Machines -- About VMware Workstation Networking -- Bridged Networking -- Host Only -- Network Address Translation -- Custom -- Virtual Switch -- Bridge -- Host Virtual Adapter -- DHCP Server -- Virtual Network Adapters -- Configuring a Bridged Network -- Summary Tab -- Automatic Bridging -- Host Virtual Network Mapping -- Configuring a Host-Only Network -- About the VMware DHCP Server -- About Host Virtual Adapters -- Configuring Network Address Translation -- Configuring a Custom Network Address Translation -- About Port Forwarding -- About Vnetsniffer -- Working with Vnetsniffer -- About Virtual MAC Addresses -- About UUID -- Manually Assigning a MAC Address -- Configuring a Custom Virtual Network -- 13 Performance Tuning and Optimization of Virtual Machines -- VMware Workstation Optimization Settings -- About the Working Directory or Default Location -- Memory Optimization -- Host Disk Defragmentation -- Shrinking and Defragmenting Virtual Disks -- Guest Operating System Selection -- Debugging Mode -- Remove Unnecessary Virtual Hardware.

Running Virtual Machines from the Network -- Snapshots -- CD-ROM Drive Polling -- Disable Effects -- Monitoring Virtual Machines -- Monitoring VMware Workstation Performance Settings -- 14 Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Conversion -- What Is the VMware Virtual Machine Importer? -- Virtual Machine Importer Requirements -- VPC Requirements -- Installing the Virtual Machine Importer -- Uninstalling the VMware Virtual Machine Importer -- Converting Virtual PC to VMware Workstation 5 -- Virtual Machine Conversion Options -- 15 Physical to Virtual Conversion -- Physical to Virtual (P2V) Conversion Tools -- Using VMware P2V Assistant 2.0 -- P2V Requirements -- Installing VMware P2V Assistant -- Installing the P2V Source Machine Boot CD-ROM -- The P2V Assistant Wizard -- About Leostream P>V -- How Does It Work? -- Installing the Leostream Host Agent Wizard -- Installing the Leostream P>V Wizard -- Performing a Physical to Virtual Conversion via Leostream -- About Disk Transport Options -- Leostream Converter -- Norton Ghost 2003 -- Performing Network P2V Conversion -- P2V via an Image -- 16 Tips and Tricks -- Installing VMware Workstation as a Service -- Requirements -- Configuring VMware Workstation as a Service -- Creating the Service -- Disabling the Shutdown Event Tracker on Windows Server 2003 -- Creating a Screenshot or a Movie of a Virtual Machine -- About Screenshots -- About Movies -- Using BgInfo with Your Virtual Machines -- Creating Virtual Floppies with WinImage -- Creating a Virtual Floppy Disk -- Working with the Virtual Floppy Driver -- Creating Virtual Floppy Disks -- Working with the Virtual Disk Manager -- Virtual Disk Tasks -- Using the DiskMount Utility -- About DiskMount Limitations -- Archiving Virtual Machines -- Using Raw Disk Partitions in VMware Workstation -- Using WinISO -- Working with VMware Workstation from the Command Line.

Working with the VMrun Command Line -- Modifying the Tip of the Day -- Working with Shared Folders -- Creating a Shared Folder -- Keyboard Shortcuts -- 17 High Availability with VMware Workstation -- Creating the Virtual Environment -- Adding Network Cards -- Private Network Configuration -- Public Network Configuration -- Configuring Shared Disks in VMware Workstation -- Editing the VMX File -- Booting into the BIOS -- Configuring the Drives -- Configuring the Cluster Service on a Windows 2003 Server -- Testing the Windows 2003 Cluster -- Installing SQL Server 2005 -- Installing SQL Server 2005 on the Second Instance -- 18 High Availability with GSX Server -- Creating a Shared Disk -- Viewing the Shared Disks -- Attaching the Shared Disks to an Additional Computer -- Editing the .vmx File -- About the CD-ROM -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.