VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary

Get started from scratch with Vmware Workstation using this essential guide. Taking you from installation on Windows or Linux through to advanced virtual machine features, you'll be setting up a test environment in no time.

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Sander van Vugt

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|Jan 2025

E-Book €27.99Institutions €112.95

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Create virtual machines on Linux and Windows hosts
Create advanced test labs that help in getting back to any Virtual Machine state in an easy way
Share virtual machines with others, no matter which virtualization solution they're using

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Install VMware Workstation on Windows or Linux
Create Virtual Machines
Configure networking in virtual environments
Set up a DMZ-test environment on one single machine
Access Virtual Machines running on other computers
Multiply virtual machines by using clones
Easily revert to a previous Virtual Machine state by using snapshot technology
Upload Virtual machines to the cloud and vSphere
Share virtual machines with VMware Player users

Who this book is for

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.

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-84968-919-9

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 136

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VMware Workstation - No Experience Necessary

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