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1. Setting Copy Protection Policies Copy protection policies ensure that an ACE instance runs only from the location where it was originally installed If you copy protect an ACE instance its files can be moved or copied but the instance cannot run from the new location For standalone ACE instances you can specify whether copying and moving are allowed For managed ACE instances you can specify whether both copying and moving are allowed or whether only moving is allowed In this case only one copy of the ACE instance is allowed to run at a time If the user moves or copies a copy protected ACE instance and tries to run it an error message appears It lists an alphanumeric string that the user can send to the system administrator or help desk assistant to get the copy protection changed For managed instances you can also dynamically change the copy protection settings switching the settings so that moved or copied instances will run or not run Every ACE instance has a copy protection identifier CPID that contains the path to the ACE instance on the host file system For standard ACE instances the CPID also contains the system s BIOS ID For Pocket ACE instances the CPID contains the file system ID If copy protection is on Workstation compares the current CPID with the stored CPID If they do not match the instance was moved or copied For standalone ACE instances you can set the CPID by using vmware acetool or by sending h
2. 6 Optional If you want to use a JVM other than the one that is automatically selected select an alternate JVM path 7 Optional Expand the list of shared folders to add edit or remove folders to be shared between the host and the guest systems For each folder enter the share name and the location on the host system By default the project folder is shared 8 Optional Indicate actions to be performed before the application is launched m Select Set virtual machine state to most recent snapshot to revert to the most recent snapshot before the application is launched m Select Run script and enter one or more shell commands to be executed in the guest operating system before the application is launched No syntax checking is performed Either enter one command per line or enter multiple commands on the same line using a semicolon as a separator 9 Optional Indicate actions to be performed after the application has terminated m Select Run script and enter one or more shell commands to be executed in the guest operating system after the application has terminated No syntax checking is performed Either enter one command per line or enter multiple commands on the same line using a semicolon as a separator m Select Set virtual machine state and select one of the following options to m Suspended default m Most recent snapshot Powered off 10 Click Apply If you click Revert settings revert to previous values If
3. Device Control on a Windows Host When you connect a device to a virtual machine it is unplugged from the host or from the virtual machine that previously had control of the device When you disconnect a device from a virtual machine it is plugged in to the host Under some circumstances if a USB storage device is in use on the host for example one or more files stored on the device are open on the host an error appears in the virtual machine when you try to connect to the device You must let the host complete its operation or close any application connected to the device on the host and then connect to the device in the virtual machine again On Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts when you connect a USB network or storage device to a virtual machine you might see a message on your host that says the device can be removed safely This is normal behavior and you can dismiss the dialog box However do not remove the device from your physical computer If the network or storage device does not disconnect from the host use the appropriate system tray icon to disconnect it On Windows 2000 the icon is called Eject Hardware On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it is called Safely Remove Hardware VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Troubleshoot Device Control Issues on a Linux Host On Linux hosts guest operating systems can use devices that are not already in use by the host that is
4. Install Windows 2000 Administrative Tools on a Local Computer Windows 2000 Administrative Tools are not installed on a Windows 2000 Professional system However you can install these tools from a Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD ROM VMware Inc 281 Workstation User s Manual To install Windows 2000 Administrative Tools on a local computer 1 Open the i386 folder on the applicable Windows 2000 Server disc 2 Double click the adminpak msi file and follow the instructions that appear in the Windows 2000 Administrative Tools Setup wizard 3 After Windows 2000 Administrative Tools are installed you can access most of the server administrative tools by choosing Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools Disable Packet Forwarding on Linux Host If you find packets leaking out of a host only network on a Linux host computer see whether forwarding has mistakenly been enabled on the host machine If it is enabled disable it To disable packet forwarding on Linux host Depending on which type of Linux system you have use one of the following methods m Disable forwarding by writing a 0 zero to the special file proc sys net ipv4 ip_forward As root su enter this command echo 0 gt proc sys net ipv4 ip_forward m Use a configuration option that is appropriate for your Linux distribution For example you might use a control panel specify a setting at the time you compile your kernel or possibl
5. Installing VMware Workstation on page 39 to install the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger as an optional component of Workstation 6 5 The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger can be installed on most Windows host systems that are running Workstation 6 5 and have a supported version of Visual Studio installed When you install the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger VMware Inc The associated DLLs are placed in the Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Visual Studio Integrated Debugger and Program Files VMware VMware VIX ws 2 32bit directories When you restart Visual Studio the integrated virtual debugger is loaded and the VMware menu and toolbar become available A preference file vsid prefs xml is created in the Documents and Settings lt user_name gt Application Data VMware directory Do not edit this file directly It is updated when you make changes in the integrated virtual debugger configuration pages A file lt project_name gt idc is created for each project in same directory as the project file when a project of a type supported by the integrated virtual debugger is loaded in Visual Studio 477 Workstation User s Manual 478 m Alog file vmware vsid lt integer gt log is created in the Documents and Settings lt user_name gt Local Settings Temp directory You can choose VMware gt About VMware Virtual Debugger to view the log file name This log file contains informational an
6. When a user starts this virtual machine the newly created appliance view is displayed It first displays a powering on message and then provides a link to click in order to access the appliance s management console VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines Create a Screenshot of a Virtual Machine You can capture a screenshot of a virtual machine and save it to the clipboard to a file or both On Linux hosts saving to the clipboard works only on systems running Gnome 2 12 or higher By default the image is saved as a portable network graphics png file On Windows hosts you can also save it as a bmp file To create a screenshot of a virtual machine 1 Specify your preferences for taking screenshots a b d From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit Preferences In the preferences editor on the Workspace tab use the Save screenshots to check boxes to specify whether you want to save the screenshot to the clipboard a file or both If you select File specify whether you want to save the file to your desktop or be prompted for the location when you take the screenshot If you select Save to desktop the filename is generated automatically On Windows hosts if you select Ask for location when you are prompted for the filename and path you can also change the file format to bitmap Click OK 2 To take the screenshot do one of the following From the Workstation menu bar ch
7. 40 You cannot have VMware Workstation installed on the same host machine with another VMware product such as VMware Server or the VMware Virtual Machine Console The only VMware products that can share a host machine with Workstation are the VMware VirtualCenter client software and VMware Converter If you plan to install VMware Workstation on a host machine that already contains another VMware product you must uninstall that product first After you complete the prerequisites and determine which computer you want to use for hosting Workstation see the appropriate installation topic Install Workstation on a Windows Host on page 41 Install Workstation on a Linux Host on page 45 VMware Inc Chapter 2 Installing VMware Workstation Install Workstation on a Windows Host Before you begin make sure you have the items listed in Installation Prerequisites on page 39 Although you can enter the number after installation VMware recommends entering it at installation time This topic describes how to complete the interactive Workstation installation wizard To instead use the command line interface to perform a silent installation on many computers see Install Workstation Silently on page 43 To install Workstation on a Windows host 1 VMware Inc Log in to your Microsoft Windows host as the Administrator user or as a user who is amember of the Windows Administrators group Log in as local administrator
8. Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Instead you must manually install and start the Remote Debug Monitor executable msvsmon exe on the guest operating system before starting a debugging session You can copy msvsmon exe to the guest before starting the debug session create a mapping to a network share with the host where msvsmon exe is located or install msvsmon exe from the Visual Studio 2005 installation CD Start the Remote Debug Monitor Without Authentication on the Default Port Running the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest system without authentication poses a security risk for that guest it is recommended that you take a snapshot first and set Revert to Parent Snapshot to Yes in Post Debug Event or Pre Debug Event properties as described in Setting Configuration Properties on page 486 Due to shared folder limitations you must also m Set Run Command As to a guest path This property which indicates how the command being executed by the debugger is run is described in Set General Properties on page 486 m Leave Shared Directories unset because directories cannot be shared between the host and the guest This property is described in Set Virtual Machine Properties on page 487 To start the Remote Debug Monitor without authentication on the default port 1 Run the command msvsmon exe noauth 2 Verify that you are using port 4015 by confirming that Remote Debug Monitor d
9. Click Browse to select from vmx files on the system 4 Enter your account credentials to access the guest console 5 Click Apply If you click Revert settings revert to default values If newly created the launch configuration is added to the left pane VMware Inc 471 Workstation User s Manual Delete Configurations To remove a configuration 1 Choose Run gt Debug The Debug page is displayed You can create manage and run configurations from this page 2 Inthe left pane select one or more configurations you want to delete and click the Delete selected launch configuration s icon at the top of the pane The configuration is removed in the left pane Running and Debugging Applications in Virtual Machines After you create the appropriate launch configurations the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger enables you to m Start an application debugging session in a virtual machine m Start an application in a virtual machine without debugging m Start a debugging session that attaches to a process already running in a virtual machine Start an Application Debugging Session in a Virtual Machine Do not suspend a virtual machine while the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger is connected to an application If you do the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger disconnects from the application To start a debugging session in a virtual machine 1 Begin the session in one of the following ways m From the Debug menu cho
10. Set Up Shared Folders on page 178 216 VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives Virtual Disk Maintenance Tasks Defragmenting virtual disks can improve performance Shrinking virtual disks reclaims any unused space Defragment Virtual Disks Like physical disk drives virtual disks can become fragmented Defragmenting disks rearranges files programs and unused space on the virtual disk so that programs run faster and files open more quickly Before you begin make sure you have adequate free working space on the host computer If your virtual disk is contained in a single file for example you need free space equal to the size of the virtual disk file Other virtual disk configurations require less free space Defragmenting does not reclaim unused space on a virtual disk To reclaim unused space shrink the disk See Shrink a Virtual Disk on page 218 To defragment a virtual disk 1 Runa disk defragmentation utility inside the guest operating system For example in a virtual machine with a Windows XP guest operating system use the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter tool from within the virtual machine Defragmenting disks can take considerable time 2 If the virtual disk is growable rather than preallocated defragment it by using the Workstation defragmentation tool a b c e Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On t
11. Using virtual machines you can debug kernel code on one system without the need for two physical computers a modem or a serial cable You can use Debugging Tools for Windows WinDbg or Kernel Debugger KD to debug kernel code in a virtual machine over a virtual serial port You can Download Debugging Tools for Windows from the WHDC Windows Hardware Developer Central Web site VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Debug an Application in a Virtual Machine from a Windows Host In this setup you have kernel code to debug in a virtual machine called the target virtual machine and are running Debugging Tools for Windows WinDbg or Kernel Debugger KD on a Windows host Before you begin on the host make sure you have a recent version of Debugging Tools for Windows which supports debugging over a pipe You need version 5 0 18 0 or higher To debug an application in a virtual machine from a Windows host 1 Prepare the target virtual machine as described in Connect an Application on the Host to a Virtual Machine on page 319 Make sure you configure the virtual machine s virtual serial port as follows a Select This end is the server b Under I O Mode select the Yield CPU on poll check box because the kernel in the target virtual machine uses the virtual serial port in polled mode not interrupt mode 2 Power on the virtual machine 3 Use the VM gt Removable Devices menu to make sure the serial port is connec
12. You can configure the other settings in this dialog box later You might want to perform these tasks after creating a LAN segment Configure network transmission properties for the segment See Configure LAN Segments on page 255 Create a network adapter and connect it to the segment See Add or Remove Network Adapters on page 256 Configure LAN Segments You can configure network transmission properties for a team LAN segment including bandwidth settings such as connection type and speed as well as percentage of packet loss allowed To configure LAN segments 1 2 VMware Inc Select the team and choose Team gt Settings Click the LAN Segments tab and complete the fields From this tab you can add remove and rename the LAN segments configured for the team The list in the left pane displays LAN segments associated with the team Click a name to select the LAN segment you want to configure The right pane displays parameters for the physical properties of the emulated LAN segment link m Name Name of the LAN segment To change the name type a new name in the Name field m Bandwidth Drop down menu of bandwidths for typical network links To change the bandwidth choose another connection type from the drop down menu m Kbps Field to set a custom bandwidth Changes here are overwritten when you make a selection from the Bandwidth menu To change the bandwidth type a number into the field 25
13. m Ona Windows 2000 host with USB 2 0 support use the Microsoft USB 2 0 driver for the USB controller Third party USB 2 0 drivers such as those provided by some motherboard manufacturers are not supported For notes on replacing the third party drivers see Replace USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host on page 339 If you do not plan to use USB devices in a virtual machine you can disable or enable USB 2 0 support by using the virtual machine settings editor To enable the USB 2 0 Controller for a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Choose VM gt Settings VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices 4 On the Hardware tab select USB Controller 5 Select the Enable high speed support for USB 2 0 devices check box and click OK Add a USB Controller to a Virtual Machine By default a USB controller is included when you create a virtual machine If you remove the USB controller you can add it back This controller is required to use a smart card in a virtual machine regardless of whether the smart card reader is a USB device To add a USB coniroller to a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware Type page select USB Controller and click Next 2 3 4 On the Hardware tab click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard 5 6 On the USB page click Finish 7 In
14. msiexec i D VMware Tools msi ADDLOCAL ALL REMOVE Hgfs qn The SVGA Mouse BusLogic vmxnet and MemCtl features are children of the Drivers feature This means that the following command skips installation of the SVGA mouse BusLogic vmxnet and MemCt1 drivers msiexec i D VMware Tools msi ADDLOCAL ALL REMOVE Drivers qn To include a feature use it with the ADDLOCAL option To exclude a feature use it with the REMOVE option Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest Within X by Using the RPM Installer You can use a graphical user interface to install VMware Tools in a Linux guest For information about how to install VMware Tool from the command line see Install VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar or RPM Installer on page 111 Before you begin make sure the virtual machine is powered on and the guest operating system is running To install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest Within X by Using the RPM Installer 1 On the host from the menu bar choose VM gt Install VMware Tools The guest operating system mounts the VMware Tools installation virtual CD A window manager displaying two files might appear One file is for the RPM installer and one is for the tar installer Alternatively a VMware Tools CD icon might appear on the desktop Do one of the following VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools m Ifyou see a VMware Tools CD icon on the desktop double click it and after it o
15. random_alpha_digit n A randomly generated string of alphabetic and numeric characters where lt n gt is the number of characters You must specify lt n gt random_alpha n A randomly generated string of alphabetical characters where lt n gt is the number of characters You must specify lt n gt 419 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 420 m random_digit n A randomly generated string of numeric characters where lt n gt is the number of characters You must specify lt n gt For Windows Vista guests if the computer name is more than 15 characters the Mini Setup process fails on the user machine Specify Additional License Information for Windows Server Products To supply additional license information for Windows Server products you can add a file named sysprep_license txt to the ACE enabled virtual machine directory To specify additional license information for Windows Server products 1 Use a text editor to create a skin file named sysprep_license txt in the virtual machine directory for the ACE enabled virtual machine 2 Add the following line to the file AutoMode PerSeat PerServer This line indicates whether the license is for one client license or for a certain number of client licenses for a server 3 If AutoMode is set to PerServer add the following line to the file lt n gt indicates the number of client licenses for the server AutoUsers lt n gt 4 Save and close the file For
16. s startup sequence The left most virtual machine is the first one in the sequence Workstation updates thumbnails in real time to display the actual content of the virtual machine screens The active virtual machine is the one you select or switch to by using the Team gt Switch To menu It appears in the lower pane of the console Its thumbnail is represented by the VMware icon Workstation menus and commands directly affect only the active virtual machine and you can use the mouse and keyboard to interact directly with the active virtual machine In full screen mode Workstation displays only the active virtual machine See Use Full Screen Mode on page 156 VMware Inc Chapter 14 Configuring Teams Managing the Members of a Team This section includes procedures for adding virtual machines to a team removing them from a team and setting the order in which members of a team start and stop Add a Virtual Machine to a Team Before you add a virtual machine to a team consider these issues A virtual machine is not powered on when you add it to a running team You must power on the added virtual machine manually to use it during the current session The added virtual machine is thereafter powered on or off with the rest of the team When you add a virtual machine to a team you can no longer operate the virtual machine outside the team Adding a virtual machine to a team therefore removes it from the Favorites list
17. 1 print TRUE exit 0 print FALSE exit 0 Scripts can be in any language For example you can use a bat file on Windows operating systems or perl or sh on Linux operating systems A script provides Workstation with a command line executable file or a script file in the ACE Resources directory The guidelines a script must follow depend on which policy the script is implementing The script must exit with a 0 zero value to be considered a success Any other output results in failure Upon success the stdout output of the script is examined For a given policy this should be a specific value such as TRUE or FALSE For a power on script output should be TRUE or FALSE The authentication script output is used as a password The host to guest data script is a string in a particular format such as guestinfo varl valuel nguestinof var2 value2 Set a Recovery Key for Encrypted ACE Instances You can specify the key to be used for access to encrypted ACE instances This key enables you to reset the password for a deployed ACE instance To set a recovery key for encrypted ACE instances 1 On the access control policy page click Set recovery key 2 Inthe Recovery Key dialog box select Use recovery key 3 Doone of the following VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player m To use an existing PEM format key pair click Browse for Existing Key and navigate to the public key of the pa
18. 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered on 3 Choose VM gt Removable Devices gt lt Device_Name gt and then Connect or Disconnect If you choose Edit a dialog box appears Make the desired changes and click OK If you need assistance click the Help button to display online help 4 Optional To connect or disconnect the device from the virtual machine click or right click the device icon in the notification area of the taskbar and choose Connect or Disconnect Using the device icon in the virtual machine taskbar is especially useful if you run the virtual machine in full screen mode Using VNC for Remote Connections to a Virtual Machine VNC Virtual Network Computing software makes it possible to view and interact with one computer from any other computer or mobile device anywhere on the Internet VNC software is cross platform allowing remote control between different types of computers For example you can use VNC to view a Linux machine on your Windows PC Open source versions of VNC are freely and publicly available You can use Workstation to set a virtual machine to act as a VNC server and users on other computers can install a VNC client also called a VNC viewer to connect to the virtual machine After you set up a virtual machine as a VNC server you can see a list of users who are remotely connected to the virtual machine and find out how long they have been connected Workstat
19. 251 deleting 249 Ethernet adapters for 256 name change 248 network 245 new 246 no clone template 203 opening 247 overview 245 power off 253 powering on 253 removing virtual machine from 251 resume 253 snapshot 257 suspend 253 technical support resources 20 Telnet 294 template mode for clones 203 testing a package 431 testing package pre deployment 431 3D support 308 time synchronization 122 time synchronizing between guest and host 122 time synchronize options for VMware Tools 123 135 token ring 263 toolbar customizing 70 71 hide 352 training courses 23 troubleshooting responding to hot fix requests 452 users problems 372 with vmware acetool 450 Turion 64 processor 26 38 U UHCI controller 34 uninstalling an ACE instance from a Linux host 447 an ACE instance from a Windows host 444 host virtual adapters 275 VMware Tools 120 Workstation on Linux host 48 Workstation on Windows host 44 Unity mode 154 update frequency 400 updates checking for Workstation 74 upgrade guest operating systems 99 Linux kernel reconfiguring Worksta tion after upgrade 47 on Linux host 55 on Windows host 53 on Windows Vista host 54 removing snapshots before virtual machine upgrades 51 virtual machines 57 58 VMware Tools 117 VMware Workstation 51 USB connecting devices 337 control of devices by host and guest 340 controller enabling and disabling 336 devices in a virtual machine 335 discon
20. Add or Remove Programs gt Change or Remove Programs 2 Select the VMware Player program or the ACE instance and click Remove 3 Follow the instructions in the wizard Installing an ACE Package on a Linux Host 444 If an end user s computer does not already have VMware ACE or VMware Player installed the first time you install an ACE package VMware Player is installed along with the ACE instance If VMware Player is not already installed on the machine it is automatically installed when you run the ACE package s vmware install pl as root or sudo You can install ACE instances on one host at a time or you can silently install an ACE instance on multiple computers VMware Inc Chapter 24 Installing ACE Instances Manually Install VMware Player on a Linux Host Manually install VMware Player on systems where the end user does not have root access To manually install VMware Player on a Linux host 1 VMware Inc In a terminal window enter the following command to become the root user su Mount the ACE package and locate the VMware Player installer in the package directory Depending on whether the host is a 32 bit computer or a 64 bit computer you see one of the following filenames m VMware player i386 tar gz m VMware player x86_64 tar gz Copy the tar archive to a temporary directory on the hard drive For example if you have a 64 bit computer and you want to put the file in the tmp directory ent
21. Disconnecting USB Devices from a Virtual Machine Before unplugging a USB device or using the VM gt Removable Devices menu to disconnect it from a virtual machine be sure it is in a safe state Follow the procedures the device manufacturer specifies for unplugging the device from a physical computer This is true whether you are physically unplugging it moving it from host to virtual machine moving it between virtual machines or moving it from virtual machine to host VMware Inc 341 Workstation User s Manual This is important with data storage devices a Zip drive for example If you move a data storage device too soon after saving a file and the operating system has not actually written the data to the disk you can lose data Use Smart Cards with Virtual Machines 342 A smart card is a plastic card about the size of a credit card but embedded with a computer chip Many government agencies and large enterprises use smart cards to authenticate users who access their computer networks Users plug a smart card reader into their computer and then insert their smart card in the reader They are then prompted for credentials in order to log on to the network Smart card readers are considered a type of USB device by the virtual machine You can therefore use the VM gt Removable Devices menu to access them Virtual machines can connect to smart card readers that interface to serial ports parallel ports USB ports PCMCIA slots
22. Perform Power Operations on One Team Member 254 Working with Team Networks 254 LAN Segment Requirements Regarding IP Addresses 254 Create a Team LAN Segment 254 Configure LAN Segments 255 Add or Remove Network Adapters 256 Delete a LAN Segment 256 Cloning and Taking Snapshots of Team Virtual Machines 257 Configuring a Virtual Network 259 Components of the Virtual Network 259 Virtual Switch 259 DHCP Server 260 Network Adapter 260 Common Networking Configurations 260 Bridged Networking 261 Network Address Translation NAT 262 Host Only Networking 263 Example of a Custom Networking Configuration 265 Set Up a Custom Networking Configuration 265 Changing a Networking Configuration 267 Find the Network Type of a Virtual Machine 268 Add Virtual Network Adapters 268 Modify Existing Virtual Network Adapters 269 Configuring Bridged Networking 269 Configure vmnet0 Bridged Networking on a Windows Host 270 Configure vmnet0 Automatic Bridged Networking on a Linux Host 271 Changing the Subnet or DHCP Settings for a Virtual Network 272 Change Subnet or DHCP Settings on a Windows Host 272 Change Subnet or DHCP Settings on a Linux Host 274 Configuring Host Virtual Network Adapters 275 Enable or Disable a Host Virtual Adapter 276 Add or Remove a Host Virtual Adapter 276 10 VMware Inc Contents Advanced Virtual Networking 277 VMware Inc Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration 277 How the Subnet Number Is Assigned 2
23. Professional Snapshot for You Are Here KT Snapshot created Thu 29 Mar 2007 01 39 45 PM PDT Name Snapshot for Clone of Windows XP P Description Created by clone operation B Hep GoTo x Close 1 snapshot selected On Linux hosts right click the toolbar to change the icon style You can display icons and text icons only text only and so on Open and Use the Snapshot Manager Use the snapshot manager to review all snapshots for the active virtual machine and act on them directly VMware Inc Chapter 10 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine To open and use the snapshot manager 1 2 From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager Select a snapshot or recording and click the button for the desired action To select more than one snapshot or recording Ctrl click the desired snapshots and recordings If the Take Snapshot button is disabled it might be because the virtual machine has multiple disks in different disk modes For example if you have a special purpose configuration that requires you to use an independent disk you must power off the virtual machine before taking a snapshot Take a Snapshot You can usually take a snapshot while a virtual machine is powered on powered off or suspended Following are the prerequisites for taking a snapshot Any suspend operations must be complete The virtual machine is not communicating with a
24. allow use of a specific type of digital camera but disallow use of iPod mobile digital devices If a rule exists for a specific device that rule overrides any rules set for device classes in which the device belongs All entries in the list of specific USB devices are maintained in a device database that is included with the files for this ACE enabled virtual machine You can copy and share the database It is not write protected The default location for the file is C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware VMware Workstation usbhistory ini m Device class For example allow use of human input devices HIDs such as mice and keyboards but disallow use of communications devices such as modems and cell phones If no specific device rule exists for a device and more than one device class rule applies to that device the most restrictive rule is applied For example a device might include both a fax function and a print function and therefore can belong to more than one class If one rule blocks a fax device but another rule allows a print device the combination fax and print device is blocked m All USB devices Allow or deny access to all connected USB devices Device class rules and specific device rules override general access rules Set an Access Policy for USB Devices You might want to set a policy that prevents end users from connecting such USB devices as mass storage devices printers or modems to the ACE
25. are displayed on the right side of the dialog box For example in Figure 4 9 memory options are displayed because the Memory item is selected Topics and chapters related to each of the virtual devices in the Hardware list are provided later in this manual To display online help for an item you select in the Hardware list click Help in the settings panel Options Tab The Options tab lets you adjust characteristics of the selected virtual machine m Many options control interactions between the host and the guest operating system such as how folders can be shared how files are transferred and what happens to a guest operating system when you exit Workstation m Some options let you override similar Preferences dialog box options which are global preferences set for all virtual machines For example you can use the Advanced option to override the process priorities set on the Priority tab in the Preferences dialog box m Some options let you change settings you might initially make when running the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a virtual machine For example you can use the General options to change the name of the virtual machine VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Figure 4 10 Virtual Machine Settings Options Tab irtual Machine Settings x Hardware Options Settings Summary Virtual machine name E General Vista VM Vista VM Power Shared Folders Disabl
26. configurations dynamically allocates IP addresses in the range of lt net gt 128 through lt net gt 254 where lt net gt is the network number assigned to your NAT network Workstation always uses a Class C address for NAT networks IP addresses lt net gt 3 through lt net gt 127 can be used for static IP addresses IP address lt net gt 1 is reserved for the host adapter lt net gt 2 is reserved for the NAT device For more information see DHCP Conventions for Assigning IP Addresses on page 279 In addition to the IP address the DHCP server on the NAT network sends out configuration information that enables the virtual machine to operate This information includes the default gateway and the DNS server In the DHCP response the NAT device instructs the virtual machine to use the IP address lt net gt 2 as the default gateway and DNS server This causes all IP packets destined for the external network and DNS requests to be forwarded to the NAT device DNS on the NAT Network The NAT device acts as a DNS server for the virtual machines on the NAT network Actually the NAT device is a DNS proxy and merely forwards DNS requests from the VMware Inc 293 Workstation User s Manual 294 virtual machines to a DNS server that is known by the host Responses come back to the NAT device which then forwards them to the virtual machines If they get their configuration information from DHCP the virtual machines on the NAT netw
27. device Text surrounded by square brackets such as host marks the beginning of a section In each section is a configuration parameter that can be set The configuration parameters take the form ip 192 168 27 2 24 For an example of a NAT configuration file see Sample Linux nat conf File on page 303 Contents of the NAT Configuration File The NAT configuration file is located in m Ona Windows host C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware vmnetnat conf If you edit this file and then use the virtual network settings editor Edit gt Virtual Network Settings However your edits might be lost m Ona Linux host etc vmware vmnet8 nat nat conf The NAT configuration file contains the following sections The host Section ip The IP address that the NAT device should use It can be followed by a slash and the number of bits in the subnet netmask The subnet mask to use for the NAT network DHCP addresses are allocated from this range of addresses configport A port that can be used to access status information about the NAT device device The vmnet device to use Windows devices are of the form vmnet lt x gt where lt x gt is the number of the vmnet Linux devices are of the form dev vmnet lt x gt activeFTP Flag to indicate if active FTP is to be allowed Active FTP allows incoming connections to be opened by the remote FTP server Turning this off means that only passive mode FTP
28. dialog box and installing it from the VMware Tools ISO image The English version of the instructions from the Notebook file are reprinted in Knowledge Base article 1001819 at the VMware Web site Automate the Installation of VMware Tools in a Windows Guest If you are installing VMware Tools in a number of Windows virtual machines you can automate its installation This silent installation feature uses the Microsoft Windows Installer runtime engine Make sure the Microsoft Windows Installer runtime engine version 2 0 or higher installed in the guest operating system Version 2 0 or higher is included with newer versions of Windows If you are installing VMware Tools in older Windows guest operating systems check the version of the WINDIR system32 msiexec exe file If the file version is not 2 0 or higher upgrade the engine by running instmsiw exe instmsia exe for Windows 95 or Windows 98 guests which is included with the VMware Tools installer For more information about using the Microsoft Windows Installer including command line options go to the Windows Installer page on the MSDN Web site To automate the installation of VMware Tools in a Windows guest 1 Make sure the virtual machine s CD ROM drive is connected to the VMware Tools ISO image and that it is configured to connect whenever you power on the virtual machine a Select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware gt CD ROM b Inthe Devic
29. editing to attach to applications 471 editing to start applications 469 leak IP packets in a virtual machine 280 IP packets in host only network 280 legacy emulation for DVD CD ROM drives 228 legacy virtual machine creating 87 licensing serial number and 42 linked clone moving 209 Linux installing on Linux host 45 supported 32 bit guest operating systems 37 supported 64 bit guest operating systems 37 supported host operating systems 29 uninstalling Workstation on Linux host 48 upgrading on Linux host 55 VMware Tools for 110 Linux 64 bit host 30 LiveState system image importing 139 location of virtual machine files 88 151 lock files 214 lockout for some interface features 351 Workstation preference 78 log file 100 log files 364 LSI Logic 33 ISI Logic 90 343 M MAC address and clones 201 assigning manually 283 of virtual Ethernet adapter 282 map VMware Inc key code 329 keyboard 327 keysym 329 mapped drives for virtual disks 184 master boot record MBR disks 143 memory amount required on host 27 available in virtual machine 33 memory settings 395 Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools downloading 417 MIDI 310 migrate virtual machine 209 mode full screen 156 494 quick switch 158 497 modifier keys 358 monitors specifying the number of 160 162 using multiple 160 162 mouse driver installed by VMware Tools 104 USB 335 movie capture 171 moving a virtual machine 205 MP3 310
30. enter no password one or two passwords when they run the instance for the first time The possibilities are m No passwords are required at the first run of the instance or on subsequent runs VMware Inc 447 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual You must enter one password at the first run and that password is supplied to you by the administrator On subsequent runs of the instance no passwords are required You must create a password at the first run On subsequent runs you must enter that password You must enter an administrator supplied password at the first run and also create a password On subsequent runs you must enter only the password that you created The administrator can also restrict how many characters or which characters can be used in passwords that end users create See Authentication Settings on page 377 To start and use an ACE instance 1 Depending on the host operating system do one of the following m On Windows hosts use the desktop icon or the Start menu to start the ACE instance m On Linux hosts use the Applications menu or enter the following command in a terminal window vmplayer lt path_to__package_directory gt lt name_of_ACE_vmx_file gt vmx If prompted to enter or create a password do so If the Enter Serial Number dialog box appears do one of the following m If your administrator provided a serial number enter it m If you need to purchase a license click Get Serial Nu
31. gt Settings VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices 4 Click the Options tab and select General 5 Toenable or disable the setting use the Use enhanced virtual keyboard check box and click OK Hot Keys for Virtual Machines Hot keys let you specify the key combination that is used with hot key sequences for virtual machines For example you can require that all hot key sequences use Ctrl Shift Alt Configuring hot keys is useful if you want to prevent certain key combinations such as Ctrl Alt Del from being intercepted by Workstation instead of being sent to the guest operating system Use hot key sequences to Switch between virtual machines Enter and leave full screen mode Ungrab input Send Ctrl Alt Del to the virtual machine only not to the host machine Send commands to the virtual machine only not to the host machine Because Ctrl Alt tells Workstation to release ungrab mouse and keyboard input combinations that include Ctrl Alt are not passed to the guest operating system If you need to use such a combination press Ctrl Alt Space release Space without releasing Ctrl and Alt and press the third key of the key combination you want to send to the guest The default settings for hot keys are listed in the preferences editor choose Edit gt Preferences gt Hot Keys Use the preferences editor to change them Specify a Language Keyboard Map for VNC Clients If you set a virtual machine to act as a VNC
32. if you specified a static IP address for this virtual machine after the upgrade that setting could get changed to automatic assignment by DHCP To check the NIC settings use the method appropriate for your operating system For example on Windows XP you can use the Control Panel s Network Connections item to find information about the TCP IP address for the virtual machine Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine Select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Upgrade or Change Version Complete the pages of the Change Version wizard When you select a hardware compatibility version you see a list of the VMware products that are compatible with that version If you select Workstation 4 5 or 6 0 x you also see a list of Workstation 6 5 features that are not supported for that version Power on the virtual machine If you upgrade a virtual machine that contains a Windows 98 operating system to a Workstation 6 5 virtual machine you are prompted to install a PCI PCI bridge driver when you power on the virtual machine Because Workstation 6 5 has 32 more PCI PCI bridges than Workstation 6 0 x you might need to respond to the prompt 32 or 33 times In the guest operating system check the NIC settings and adjust them if they changed as described in Step 2 If the virtual machine does not have the latest version of VMware Tools installed update VMware Tools VMware Inc VMware Inc Chapter 3
33. lt sym gt must be an X keysym name and lt v scan code gt isa C syntax hexadecimal number for example 0x001 Most v scan codes are listed in V Scan Code Table on page 331 The xkeymap tables themselves are also helpful 3 Save and close the file V Scan Code Table Table 18 1 shows the v scan codes for the 104 key U S keyboard Table 18 1 V Scan Codes for the 104 Key U S Keyboard Symbol Shifted Symbol Location V Scan Code Esc 0x001 1 0x002 2 0x003 3 0x004 4 0x005 5 0x006 VMware Inc 331 Workstation User s Manual 332 Table 18 1 V Scan Codes for the 104 Key U S Keyboard Continued V Scan Code Symbol Shifted Symbol Location 6 A 0x007 amp 0x008 x 0x009 0x00a O o oyn Ox00b 0x00c I ae 0x00d Backspace 0x00e Tab Ox00f 0x010 0x011 0x012 0x013 0x014 0x015 CG lt 4 7 s 0 0x016 0x017 0x018 ae 0x019 ae Ox01a 0x01b Enter Ox01c Ctrl left Ox01d Ox01le 0x01f 0x020 0x021 0x022 mT OQ 7T O S 0x023 VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Table 18 1 V Scan Codes for the 104 Key U S Keyboard Continued Symbol Shifted Symbol Location V Scan Code J 0x024 K 0x025 L 0x026 5
34. m Convert a physical machine into a virtual machine m Use virtual machines or system images created with products from other companies such as Norton Symantec and StorageCraft m Convert virtual appliances Supported file types include OVF and OVA Workstation provides two ways to convert a virtual machine or system image m Using the File gt Open command converts and opens a virtual machine or system image quickly Workstation uses default settings to make the conversion automatically with no input required from you The original Microsoft Virtual PC Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery StorageCraft ShadowProtect or Acronis True Image vmc spf Sv2i or tib file is unchanged The File gt Open command creates a linked clone when it opens the file If you attempt to open a virtual machine or system image that is password protected you are prompted to use the Conversion wizard m Using the File gt Import command starts the Conversion wizard It lets you specify the converted virtual machine s location whether or not the converted virtual machine shares virtual disks with the original virtual machine or system image and whether the converted virtual machine is to be compatible with Workstation 4 x 5 x or 6 0 x ESX 2 x or 3 x GSX Server 3 x or VMware ACE 1 x or 2 The wizard creates a completely new VMware virtual machine based on the input virtual machine or system image The newly migrated VMware virtual machine ret
35. on page 384 and Control Which ACE Instances Run on a Host on page 401 Only one set of host policies can be deployed to a particular host If a package contains host policies and the host already contains host policies from another package installation of the second package fails To install an ACE instance on a single Windows host 1 If VMware Player is not yet installed on the user s machine log in to the host computer as the Administrator user or as a user who is a member of the Windows Administrators group Depending on whether you are installing from a CD DVD or network location do one of the following m For CDs and DVDs insert the first disc m For anetwork location navigate to the location of the installer Find the setup exe file and double click it Follow the instructions in the installation wizard Install an ACE Package Silently on Multiple Windows Hosts If you are installing a VMware ACE package on a number of Windows host computers you might want to use the silent installation features of the Microsoft Windows Installer This type of installation requires that the host computers have version 2 0 or later of the MSI runtime engine This version of the installer is available in versions of Windows beginning with Windows XP If the runtime engine is not installed see Install the MSI 2 0 Runtime Engine from an ACE Package on page 442 Install the MSI 2 0 Runtime Engine from an ACE Package The
36. select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose File gt Connect to ACE Management Server and connect to the production server If you use the ACE Management Server create a new package The package you created for the test refers to the server you used for testing Instances created from that package refer to the test server VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances Deploy Packages Deploying packages means making the ACE package available to end users You specify the distribution method when you create the package To deploy packages Depending on the type of package do one of the following m Fora full policy update server update or custom package distribute the package on CD or DVD or make the package available on a network m Fora Pocket ACE package see Deploying the ACE Package on a Portable Device on page 437 VMware Inc 433 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 434 VMware Inc Pocket ACE The Pocket ACE feature enables you to store ACE instances on portable devices such as USB keys flash memory drives Apple iPod mobile digital devices and portable hard drives ACE users attach these portable devices to x86 host computers run their ACE instances with VMware Player and then detach the portable devices The next time they need access to their ACE instances they can attach the devices to the same host computers or to different computers Use Pocket ACE to package a daily computing envi
37. that is do not log on to the domain unless your domain account is also a local administrator Although an administrator must install Workstation a normal user without administrative privileges can run the program after it is installed From the Start menu choose Run and specify the path to either the CD ROM drive or the downloaded installer file m If you are installing from a CD enter D setup exe where D is the drive letter for your CD ROM drive m Ifyou are installing from a downloaded file browse to the directory where you saved the downloaded installer file and run the installer The filename is similar to VMware workstation lt xxxx xxxx gt exe where lt XXXX XXXX gt is a series of numbers representing the version and build numbers On Windows Vista when the User Account Control dialog box appears prompting you for permission to run the installer click Continue If you have an earlier version of Workstation installed on your system the installer removes that version before installing the new version After the uninstallation is complete you might be prompted to restart your computer before the installer can install the new version When the wizard opens and finishes computing space requirements click Next to dismiss the Welcome page 41 Workstation User s Manual 42 On the Setup Type page select Typical unless you do not want to install the applicable Workstation IDE plug ins or if you have
38. the password you enter here is used for the Administrator account This page appears for some Windows operating systems On the Name the Virtual Machine page type a name select a folder for the virtual machine and click Next The name you provide here is used if you add this virtual machine to the VMware Workstation Favorites list This name is also used as the name of the folder where all the files associated with this virtual machine are stored If the Processor Configuration page appears select the number of processors for the virtual machine and click Next This page does not appear if you are creating a Workstation 4 virtual machine or if you selected the Compatible with Replay check box On the Memory for the Virtual Machine page either adjust the memory settings or accept the default setting and click Next If you plan to use the virtual machine to run many applications or applications that need large amounts of memory you might want to use a higher memory setting You cannot allocate more than 2GB of memory to a virtual machine if the virtual machine s files are stored on file systems such as Windows 9 x and ME with FAT16 that do not support files greater than 2GB On the Network Type page configure the networking capabilities of the virtual machine and click Next See Network Connection Type on page 89 On the Select I O Adapter Types page select the type of SCSI adapter you want to use with the virtual mac
39. virtual machine 4 virtual machine 3 internal PC firewall Set Up a Custom Networking Configuration To set up the custom networking configuration you need to create four virtual machines and use the virtual machine settings editor to adjust the settings for their virtual network adapters You also need to install the appropriate guest operating VMware Inc 265 Workstation User s Manual 266 systems and application software in each virtual machine and make the appropriate networking settings in each virtual machine To set up a custom networking configuration 1 Set up four virtual machines using the New Virtual Machine wizard a b To open this wizard choose File gt New gt Virtual Machine Create the first virtual machine with bridged networking so it can connect to an external network by using the host computer s network adapter Create the other three virtual machines without networking You will set up their virtual network adapters in later steps and install the operating systems in Step 6 2 Configure network settings for the first and second virtual machines a b c Open virtual machine but do not power it on Use the virtual machine settings editor to add a second virtual network adapter See Changing a Networking Configuration on page 267 Connect the second adapter to Custom vmnet2 3 Configure network settings for the third virtual machine a b e Open vi
40. vmx file If you never edit the configuration file by hand and do not remove the virtual network adapter these settings remain unchanged If you do edit the configuration file by hand do not remove or change the following options ethernet n generatedAddress ethernet n addressType ethernet n generatedAddressOffset uuid location uuid bios ethernet n present In these options n is the number of the virtual network adapter for example 0 NOTE To preserve a virtual network adapter s MAC address you also must be careful not to remove the adapter If you remove the adapter but later re create it the adapter might receive a different MAC address Manually Assigning a MAC Address To guarantee that the same MAC address is assigned to a given virtual machine every time you power it on even if the virtual machine is moved or if you want to guarantee a unique MAC address for each virtual machine within a networked environment you can assign the address manually instead of allowing Workstation to assign it To assign the same unique MAC address to any virtual machine manually use a text editor to remove three lines from the configuration vmx file and add one line On a Linux host a virtual machine created with an earlier VMware product might have a configuration file with a cfg extension Remove the three lines that begin with the following from the configuration file ethernet n generatedAddress ethernet
41. 0x027 0x028 0x029 Shift left 0x02a 0x02b Z 0x02c X 0x02d C 0x02e V 0x02f B 0x030 N 0x031 M 0x032 lt 0x033 gt 0x034 f 0x035 Shift right 0x036 numeric pad 0x037 Alt left 0x038 Space bar 0x039 Caps Lock 0x03a F1 0x03b F2 0x03c F3 0x03d F4 0x03e F5 0x03f F6 0x040 VMware Inc 333 Workstation User s Manual 334 Table 18 1 V Scan Codes for the 104 Key U S Keyboard Continued Symbol Shifted Symbol Location V Scan Code F7 0x041 F8 0x042 F9 0x043 F10 0x044 Num Lock numeric pad 0x045 Scroll Lock 0x046 Home 7 numeric pad 0x047 Up arrow 8 numeric pad 0x048 PgUp 9 numeric pad 0x049 numeric pad 0x04a Left arrow 4 numeric pad 0x04b 5 numeric pad 0x04c Right arrow 6 numeric pad 0x04d numeric pad 0x04e End 1 numeric pad 0x04f Down arrow 2 numeric pad 0x050 PgDn 3 numeric pad 0x051 Ins 0 numeric pad 0x052 Del numeric pad 0x053 F11 0x057 F12 0x058 Break Pause 0x100 Enter numeric pad Ox11c Ctrl right Ox11d numeric pad 0x135 SysRq Print Scrn 0x137 Alt right 0x138 Home function pad 0x147 Up arrow function pad 0x148 VMware Inc Table 18 1 V Scan Codes for the 104 Key U S Keyboard Continued Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Symbol Shifted Symbol Location V Scan Code Page Up function pad 0x149 Left arrow function pad 0x14b Right arrow function pad Ox14d End function pad Ox14f
42. 131 Passing Information Between the Guest and Another Program 133 Use the VMware Tools Command Line Interface 133 Options for the VMware Tools cmd Command 135 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine 137 Conversion Process for Importing Virtual Machines from Other Formats 137 VMware Converter Compared to the Conversion Wizard in Workstation 139 Supported Source Machines 139 Operating System Compatibility 140 Importing from Various Sources 140 Supported Destinations 144 Designating a Destination for a Virtual Machine 144 Conversion Impact on Settings 146 Migration Issues Caused by Hardware Changes 147 Open a Third Party Virtual Machine or System Image 147 Import a Virtual Machine Virtual Appliance or System Image 148 6 VMware Inc Contents Getting Started with Virtual Machines 149 Starting a Virtual Machine 149 Start a Virtual Machine from the Workstation User Interface 150 Start a Virtual Machine That Is Running in the Background 150 Virtual Machine Location 151 Shut Down a Virtual Machine 152 Configure Power Off and Reset Options for a Virtual Machine 152 Delete a Virtual Machine 153 Controlling the Display 154 Using Unity Mode 154 Use Full Screen Mode 156 Report Battery Information in the Guest Operating System 158 Use Quick Switch Mode 158 Use Exclusive Mode 159 Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual Machine 160 Use Multiple Monitors for Multiple Virtual Machines 162 Fitting the Wo
43. ACE administrators to fix a limited set of problems for standalone ACE instances directly on an ACE user s system You can provide the following solutions with vmware acetool m Set the user s password so the user can run the ACE instance m Set copy protection so the user can run the ACE instance in a new location m Set the expiration date so the user can continue to use an ACE instance that is past its scheduled expiration date The configuration file vmx file for the ACE instance must be on the ACE user s machine That is you cannot use vmware acetool to make fixes to files associated with the instance unless the configuration file is on the same machine as those files You can actually use the vmware acetool program to reset passwords and fix expiration dates on another machine but you must have the vmx vmpl and ace dat files from the user all set up in the same directory The following is an example of a vmware acetool command vmware acetool lt command gt lt ACEconfigurationfile gt lt parameters gt Command Parameters Description setPassword Path to recovery key file Set the ACE instance s password setExpirationDate New expiration date Set the ACE instance s expiration date VMware Inc Chapter 24 Installing ACE Instances Command Parameters Description allowCopy Allow the ACE instance to run from its current location updateCurrentTime Update the internal policy clock of an AC
44. Administrator Mode on an ACE Instance Using administrator mode on an end user s virtual machine enables you to troubleshoot and access features and commands that might not be available to the end user To use administrator mode on an ACE instance 1 VMware Inc Start VMware Player on the end user s machine and choose VMware Player gt Troubleshoot gt Enter Administrator Mode Enter the password for administrator access Choose the appropriate commands as follows m To edit virtual machine settings from the user s machine choose VMware Player gt Troubleshoot gt Virtual Machine Settings This command is available only on Windows hosts m To use the user snapshot commands choose VMware Player gt Snapshot m To use the reimage snapshot commands choose VMware Player gt Troubleshoot gt Revert to Reimage Snapshot m To use the ACE Tools see ACE Tools vmware acetool Command Line Tool on page 450 When you finish changing virtual machine settings or using the snapshot commands choose VMware Player gt Troubleshoot gt Exit Administrator Mode 399 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Setting Hot Fix Policies for Standalone ACE Instances This policy enables users of standalone ACE instances to request hot fixes if they lose or forget the ACE password try to run an expired ACE instance or move a copy protected ACE instance to a new location To address these types of problems for managed rather than s
45. Clone Virtual Machine wizard The Clone Virtual Machine wizard automatically creates anew MAC address and UUID for the clone Other configuration information is identical to that of the parent virtual machine For example a machine s name and static IP address configuration are not altered by the Clone Virtual Machine wizard 8 To prevent conflict with static IP addressing change the clone s static IP address before the clone connects to the network See Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration on page 277 Moving a Virtual Machine You can take a virtual machine that was created by using Workstation and move it to a different computer or to a different location on the same computer You can even move your virtual machine to a host with a different operating system For example you can move a virtual machine from a Windows host to a Linux or VMware ESX Server host In general moving a virtual machine means moving the files that make up the virtual machine The path names for all files associated with a Workstation virtual machine are relative meaning the path to each file is relative to the virtual machine directory For VMware Inc 205 Workstation User s Manual example if you are in the virtual machine directory the relative path to the virtual disk file is lt machine_name gt vmdk 206 CAUTION Always make backup copies of all the files in your virtual machine s directory before you
46. DNS on the NAT Network 293 External Access from the NAT Network 294 Advanced NAT Configuration 295 Configure NAT on a Windows Host 295 Custom NAT and DHCP Configuration on a Windows Host 296 Specifying Connections from Ports Below 1024 297 Configuring NAT ona Linux Host 297 Considerations for Using NAT 300 Workstation User s Manual Using NAT with NetLogon 301 Sample Linux nat conf File 303 Using Samba with Workstation 305 Add Users to the Samba Password File 305 Using a Samba Server for Bridged and Host Only Networks 305 Use Samba Without Network Access 306 Configuring Video and Sound 307 Setting Screen Color Depth 307 Changing Screen Color Depth on the Host 308 Changing Screen Color Depth in the Virtual Machine 308 Support for Direct3D Graphics 308 Accelerated 3 D Restrictions 308 Enabling Accelerated 3 D 309 Configuring Sound 310 Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and NT Guests 311 Connecting Devices 313 Using Parallel Ports 313 Add a Virtual Parallel Port to a Virtual Machine 313 Drivers for Iomega Zip Drives on Windows 95 and 98 Guests 314 Configuring a Parallel Port on a Linux Host 314 Using Serial Ports 318 Add a Virtual Serial Port to a Virtual Machine 318 Connect an Application on the Host to a Virtual Machine 319 Use a Serial Port Connection Between Two Virtual Machines 320 Change the Input Speed of the Serial Connection 322 Debugging over a Virtual Serial Port 322 Configuring Keyboard Features 324 Use the Enhanced
47. Down arrow function pad 0x150 Page Down function pad 0x151 Insert function pad 0x152 Delete function pad 0x153 Windows left 0x15b Windows right 0x15c Menu 0x15d The 84 key keyboard has a Sys Req key on the numeric pad Its v scan code is 0x054 Keyboards outside the U S usually have an extra key often lt gt or lt gt next to the left shift key The v scan code for this key is 0x056 Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine Workstation provides a two port USB controller so that you can connect to both USB 1 1 and USB 2 0 devices m For USB 1 1 a UHCI controller with a virtual hub enables you to connect to more than two USB 1 1 devices m For USB 2 0 an EHCI controller enables you to connect to up to six USB 2 0 devices For USB 2 0 support your host must support USB 2 0 and you must enable USB 2 0 support in Workstation USB 2 0 devices include high speed or isochronous devices such as webcams speakers and microphones USB 2 0 support is available only for Workstation 6 and higher virtual machines On the host when a USB 2 0 device connects to a port the device connects to the EHCI controller and operates in USB 2 0 mode A USB 1 1 device is automatically connected to a UHCI controller and operates in USB 1 1 mode In Workstation 6 and higher virtual machines this behavior is simulated if you enabled it See Enable the USB 2 0 Controller for a Virtual Machine on page 336 VMware Inc 335 Workst
48. ESX virtual machines you can have the wizard install VMware Tools You can make the following customizations Computer information m Computer name Alphanumeric name of up to 63 characters Hyphens and underscores are allowed m Security ID SID Optionally generate a new security ID m Sysprep file location If the wizard can detect the location the wizard page displays it Otherwise you need to supply the location m Windows licensing information VMware Inc 145 Workstation User s Manual m Product ID Optional m Windows Server license information For Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and 2003 Server only m Time zone m Network information m Network adapter interfaces Reset to default or make changes DHCP Choose between using DHCP to obtain IP addresses or entering them manually You can also use DHCP to obtain a DNS server address or enter it manually m DNS Enter DNS suffixes and customize their order to specify the order in which a virtual machine uses them to make connections m WINS Specify primary and secondary WINS addresses m Workgroup or domain For workgroups specify the workgroup name up to 15 characters For domains specify the Windows Server domain along with the appropriate user name and password Conversion Impact on Settings 146 The VMware virtual machine created by the Conversion wizard contains an exact copy of the disk state from your source virtu
49. Host on page 223 m On Linux hosts set the device group membership or device ownership appropriately See Set Permissions on Linux Hosts on page 224 After you determine that the physical disk meets these prerequisites use either of the following strategies to use the physical disk in a virtual machine m Create a Virtual Machine That Uses a Physical Disk on page 225 m Add a Physical Disk to an Existing Virtual Machine on page 226 Change a Windows Disk Type from Dynamic to Basic To use a hard disk in a virtual machine whose host is running Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 the virtual machine must use a basic disk To change a Windows disk type from dynamic to basic 1 On the host choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Disk Management The disk management tool opens 2 Delete all logical volumes on the disk This action destroys all data on the disk 3 Right click the disk icon and select Revert to Basic Disk 4 Partition the disk Unmap a Partition That Is Mapped to a Windows NT Host Corruption can occur if you allow the virtual machine to modify a physical disk partition that is simultaneously used as a mapped drive on the host To unmap a partition that is mapped to a Windows NT host 1 Choose Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools The Disk Administrator appears 2 Highlight the partition on which you plan to install
50. IP address it assigns and a client s name that is to update a DNS server using DDNS VMware Inc 285 Workstation User s Manual To use names to communicate with other virtual machines you must either edit the DHCP configuration file for vmnetl etc vmware vmnet1 dhcpd dhcpd conf or use IP addresses that are statically bound to a host name Editing the DHCP server configuration file requires information that is best obtained directly from the DHCP server documentation Consult the manual pages dhcpd 8 and dhcpd conf 8 NOTE The edits to the DHCP configuration file are lost the next time you configure Workstation by running the vmware config pl file Set Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host If you have two network adapters installed on your host computer connected to two different networks you might want your virtual machines on that host computer to bridge to both network adapters so the virtual machines can access either or both physical networks When you install Workstation on a host computer with multiple network adapters you can configure more than one bridged network You can also configure additional bridged networks at any time by rerunning vmware config pl To set up a second bridged network interface on a Linux host 1 On the host computer become root su and run the Workstation configuration program vmware config pl 2 If you have more than one physical network adapter enter yes
51. Location for Teams and Virtual Machines home carakeli vmware 7 Browse Virtual Machines lt Remember opened virtual machines between sessions Run powered on virtual machines in background after close Enable all shared folders by default Show tray icon when virtual machines are powered on Default hardware compatibility Workstation 6 gt Replay Compatible Save screenshots to Clipboard File Ask for location Miscellaneous Check for software updates A Help Following is a list of the tabs in the Preferences dialog box along with cross references to the sections of this manual that pertain to each tab m Workspace tab Lets you configure the following settings m Location section Lets you change the directory in which newly created virtual machines are stored See Virtual Machine Location on page 88 and Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine on page 100 m Virtual Machines section Several of these options have to do with exiting Workstation while leaving some virtual machines powered on See Closing Virtual Machines and Exiting Workstation on page 81 For information about enabling shared folders see Set Up Shared Folders on page 178 m Software Updates section See Check for Product Updates on page 74 m Input tab Lets you adjust the way the virtual machine captures control of keyboard and mouse For example
52. MS DOS 36 multiple monitors using 160 162 Mylex 34 90 343 N name changing team name 248 changing virtual machine name 74 named pipe 319 NAT advanced configuration 295 VMware Inc Index and DHCP 293 and DNS 293 and the host computer 293 defined 495 external access from a NAT network 294 on virtual network 262 292 port forwarding 300 304 305 sample configuration file for Linux host 303 selecting IP addresses 277 specifying connection from port be low 1024 297 when creating a virtual machine NAT conf 297 303 NetLogon 301 NetWare Novell 37 116 126 network adding and modifying virtual Ether net adapters 268 automatic bridging 270 bridged networking 493 changing DHCP settings 272 275 changing subnet settings 272 275 changing the configuration 267 components 259 configuring bridged networking options 269 custom networking 493 DHCP 278 DHCP server 260 dial up connection 280 dynamic domain name service 285 hardware address 282 host virtual network mapping 271 272 host only 263 495 host only subnet 278 identity clone 204 IP forwarding 280 509 Workstation User s Manual 510 IP packet leaks 280 locking out access to settings 351 MAC address 282 NAT 262 292 495 NAT as firewall 301 NAT subnet 278 packet filtering 281 promiscuous mode on a Linux host 292 routing between two host only networks 290 Samba 305 second bridged network on a Linux ho
53. Management Server User s Guide Troubleshooting Users Problems End users might need help with lost passwords expired ACE instances or copy protected ACE instances that they have moved to a different location Use one of the following methods to fix those problems m Managed ACE instances Use ACE Management Server See the VMware ACE Management Server User s Guide m Standalone ACE instances Use the vmware acetool command line program to fix those problems directly on the users machines See ACE Tools vmware acetool Command Line Tool on page 450 You can also use the hot fix feature to respond to these problems See Setting Hot Fix Policies for Standalone ACE Instances on page 400 and Respond to Hot Fix Requests on page 452 You might find it useful to modify the configuration of an ACE instance on an end user s computer Administrator mode enables you to access and use the virtual machine settings editor when running the ACE instance with VMware Player on the user s computer See Setting Administrator Mode Policies on page 399 372 VMware Inc Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player This chapter describes how to set policies for an ACE enabled virtual machine and customize the VMware Player interface for end users This chapter includes the following topics VMware Inc Benefits of Using Policies on page 374 Set Policies for ACE Instances on page
54. Manual 170 Before you begin verify that the virtual machine is a Workstation 6 or higher virtual machine For instructions on upgrading see Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 The appliance view displays a brief description of the type of server or appliance and provides a link that opens the browser on the host system and connects to the appliance s management console NOTE The appliance view cannot be displayed for virtual machines that are part of a team just as the summary view is not displayed for individual members of a team To set up appliance view for a virtual machine 6 Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be powered on or off 7 Choose VM gt Settings 8 Click the Options tab and select Appliance View 9 Select the Enable appliance view check box 10 Complete the fields on this panel to create the text and images that users see when the virtual machine starts up Use the following information to configure the settings on this panel m Only the Name field is required m Specify the TCP IP port number that the appliance will use to serve HTTP content m Ifyou include an image file it must be a PNG or BMP file The maximum size is 256 x 256 pixels m If you do not select Switch to appliance view at power on the console view is displayed Often this view shows only a simple display of the virtual machine s IP address and tells the user to open a browser 11 Click OK
55. Manual 486 Setting Configuration Properties You can edit configuration properties for a specific configuration by choosing the configuration name from the Configuration drop down menu You can also edit configuration properties for all configurations by choosing All Configurations from the Configuration drop down menu The default configuration initially includes the default values for all properties that have them Set General Properties General properties include The command to be executed by Visual Studio in the guest operating system How the command is run as a path on the host in a shared folder or as a path on the guest The location of the Remote Debug Monitor on the host The name of the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest To set general properties 1 2 3 Choose VMware gt Options and select General in the left pane Set Command to the command to be executed by the debugger in the guest system Click Browse to select a path to the executable on the host file system The command directory is shared between the host and the guest Set Run Command As to indicate how the debug command is run either as a host path through a shared folder or a guest path When a host path through a shared folder is selected the folder where the command is located is shared before the debugging session is started The command is executed from the shared folder and when the debugging session ends the folder is no longer sha
56. Mount the VMware Tools CD ROM image by entering cd mount vmwtools In the system console enter one of the following m For NetWare 5 1 6 0 or 6 5 vmwtools setup ncf m For NetWare 4 2 vmwtooLs setup When the installation finishes the message VMware Tools for NetWare are now running appears in the Logger Screen NetWare 6 5 and NetWare 6 0 guests or the Console Screen NetWare 4 2 and 5 1 guests VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools 4 Ifyou have a NetWare 4 2 guest restart the guest operating system as follows a To shut down the system in the system console enter down b To restart the guest operating system in the system console enter restart server 5 Make sure the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image netware iso is not attached to the virtual machine If it is attached disconnect it Right click the CD ROM icon in the status bar of the console window and choose Disconnect Start vmware user Manually If You Do Not Use a Session Manager on UNIX One of the executables used by VMware Tools in UNIX guests is vmware user This program implements the fit guest to window feature among other features Normally on Linux the VMware Tools service vmware guestd starts and stops vmware user On Solaris vmware user is started automatically after you configure VMware Tools and then log out of the desktop environment and log back in However if you run an X session without a session manager for examp
57. NOTE Workstation version 4 virtual machines cannot be added to teams To add a virtual machine to a team Select the team choose Team gt Add and choose one of the following options New Virtual Machine Launches the New Virtual Machine wizard See Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard on page 92 Existing Virtual Machine Opens a file browser from which you can navigate the host file system to locate an existing vmx file When you add a virtual machine to a team it can no longer be accessed outside the team New Clone of Virtual Machine Opens a file browser from which you can navigate the host file system to locate an existing vmx file After you select a virtual machine Workstation launches the Clone Virtual Machine wizard See Creating Clones on page 203 Remove a Virtual Machine from a Team Remove a virtual machine from a team when you want to use the virtual machine independently That is it does not need to be started up or shut down before or after any other virtual machine It also does not need to be in a private team network NOTE When you remove a virtual machine from a team you also remove it from team LAN segments Virtual network adapters associated with LAN segments become disconnected Bridged host only NAT and custom configurations remain unchanged VMware Inc 251 Workstation User s Manual 252 To remove a virtual machine from a team 1 Power off the virtual machine
58. RPM installer to install version 4 5 or 6 0 x and you use the RPM installer for version 6 5 you do not need to uninstall the older version If you manually uninstall the older version Workstation cannot save the network settings If you install the new version over the older version Workstation 6 5 saves network settings except for bridged settings used to map individual virtual networks to specific physical or virtual adapters To manually uninstall Workstation see Uninstall Workstation from a Linux Host on page 48 Run the Workstation installer as you would for a new installation See Install Workstation on a Linux Host on page 45 If you used bridged settings to map virtual networks to specific physical or virtual adapters re create the mappings Although Workstation 6 5 generally preserves network settings during the upgrade it cannot preserve mappings created with Workstation 4 5 x or 6 0 x To use Workstation 6 5 to upgrade virtual machines see Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 Using an Older Version Virtual Machine Without Upgrading You might not want to upgrade a virtual machine because you want it to remain compatible with other VMware products you are using Following is a brief summary of VMware product version compatibility 56 A virtual machine created in Workstation 4 x is compatible with GSX Server 3 x VMware Server 1 x and 2 x ESX Server 2 x VMware Fusion 1 1 and A
59. Setting this line to FALSE reinstates the VMware Tools check Save and close the preferences ini file Before you create packages that you plan to deploy in production environments reinstate the VMware Tools check Prerequisites for Using the Packaging Wizards The following prerequisites apply to the New Package wizard and the Pocket ACE Package wizard Ensure that the guest operating system and the most recent version of VMware Tools are installed in the ACE enabled virtual machine See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 Defragment virtual disks to ensure that the package is as compact as possible See Defragment Virtual Disks on page 217 Preview the ACE instance to verify that all settings are working correctly See Use Preview Mode to Test Policy and Deployment Settings on page 425 Determine the passwords used for the policies and deployment settings These can include the following VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances m Activation password Access control policy is set to Password m Domain join credentials Access control policy for the ACE instance is set to Password and the Instance Customization deployment setting for Domain is enabled This password is for the user account that has permission to add computers to this domain m Remote domain join credentials and VPN credentials The Instance Customization deployment settings for Domain and Enable remote domain join are ena
60. Soft Suspend on page 187 To suspend or resume a virtual machine Do one of the following m To suspend a virtual machine choose VM gt Power gt Suspend If your virtual machine is running in full screen mode which hides the toolbar return to windowed mode by pressing the Ctrl Alt Enter key combination When you suspend a virtual machine a file with a vmss extension is created in the working directory This file contains the entire state of the virtual machine See Virtual Machine Location on page 88 m To resume a suspended virtual machine that you suspended select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Power gt Suspend When you resume the virtual machine its state is restored from the vmss file VMware Inc Chapter 10 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine Using Snapshots Taking snapshots lets you preserve the state of the virtual machine so that you can return to the same state repeatedly Scenarios for Using Multiple Snapshots You can take multiple snapshots of a virtual machine Snapshots in a Linear Process Taking snapshots in a linear process means taking a snapshot continuing to use the virtual machine from that point taking another snapshot at a later point and so on Each snapshot is a restoration point in a single long sequence Figure 10 1 Snapshots as Restoration Points in a Linear Process M Ead bad bad bad Ead Windows lesson 1 lesson 2 lesson 3 lesson 4 lesson
61. Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines Even if for example you upgraded a Workstation 4 virtual machine to Workstation 5 rather than 6 5 you should still update VMware Tools to the version included with Workstation 6 5 See VMware Tools Update Process on page 117 Do not remove the older version of VMware Tools before installing the new version If you are upgrading a virtual machine that runs from a physical raw disk you can safely ignore the message Unable to upgrade lt drivename gt One of the supplied parameters is invalid Click OK to continue the upgrade 59 Workstation User s Manual 60 VMware Inc Learning Workstation Basics This chapter discusses launching the Workstation program and introduces the VMware Workstation window This chapter includes the following topics Start Workstation on a Windows Host on page 61 Start Workstation on a Linux Host on page 62 Overview of the Workstation Window on page 62 Check for Product Updates on page 74 Quickly Create a Virtual Machine on page 75 Introduction to Workstation Preferences on page 76 Introduction to Virtual Machine Settings on page 79 Closing Virtual Machines and Exiting Workstation on page 81 Keyboard Shortcuts on page 82 Start Workstation on a Windows Host Depending on the options you selected during installation you might have a desktop shortcut a Start menu item or both for launch
62. Use this feature for easy access to applications in the virtual machine that are not open in unity mode If you do not enable this feature you must exit unity mode to display the virtual machine s Start or Applications menu in the console view Go into and out of Unity Mode In unity mode a virtual machine s applications look just like other application windows on the host except that they have a colored window border and a VMware logo in the windows title bar Before you begin make sure the virtual machine meets these requirements VMware Inc 155 Workstation User s Manual 156 m The virtual machine must be a Workstation 6 or higher virtual machine m VMware Tools must installed and running in the virtual machine s guest operating system The version of VMware Tools must be the version included in Workstation 6 5 or higher For instructions see Installing VMware Tools on page 105 m The guest operating system in the virtual machine must be Windows 2000 or higher Linux guests can sometimes use unity mode m For Linux guests and hosts VMware recommends that you use one of the newer window managers such as Metacity or Compiz To go into and out of unity mode 1 In the virtual machine open the applications you want to use in unity mode 2 From the Workstation menu bar choose View gt Unity A check mark appears next to Unity in the menu The virtual machine s console view in the Workstation window is hi
63. VMware Workstation For the most recent list of supported guest operating systems including detailed information about the specific operating system versions service packs and updates supported see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide on the VMware documentation Web site This guide also provides notes on installing the most common guest operating systems Operating systems that are not listed in the sections that follow are not supported for use in a Workstation virtual machine VMware Inc 35 Workstation User s Manual Table 1 3 Guest Operating Systems Processor Type Operating System Edition Windows 32 bit Windows Vista 3 D effects not yet supported Windows Server 2008 3 D effects not yet supported Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Windows XP Professional and Home Edition Windows 2000 Professional Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows NT Workstation and Server 4 0 Windows NT 4 0 Terminal Server Edition Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows for Workgroups Windows 3 1 Windows 64 Bit Windows Vista x64 Edition 3 D effects not yet supported Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition 3 D effects not yet supported Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Windows XP Professional x64 Microsoft MS DOS MS DOS 36 VMware Inc Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements Table 1 3 Gue
64. Workstation 6 5 installation program Before you begin make sure that you have a Workstation 6 5 serial number Also perform the tasks described in Prepare for the Upgrade on page 51 To upgrade Workstation and upgrade the host operating system to Windows Vista see Upgrading to a Windows Vista Host on page 54 To upgrade Workstation on a Windows host 1 Log in to your Microsoft Windows host as the Administrator user or as a user who is a member of the Windows Administrators group Launch the Workstation 6 5 installer from your download directory or CD ROM Workstation automatically uninstalls the previous version but saves all the network settings except for bridged settings used to map individual virtual networks to specific physical or virtual adapters Reboot your computer if you are prompted to do so and log in again as the Administrator user or as a user who is a member of the Windows Administrators group Complete the installation wizard For detailed instructions on running the installer see Install Workstation on a Windows Host on page 41 Reboot your computer if you are prompted to do so You can now log in as you normally do You do not need to log in as an Administrator now that Workstation is installed If you used bridged settings to map virtual networks to specific physical or virtual adapters re create the mappings Although Workstation 6 5 generally preserves network settings during th
65. XP Professional SP1 SP2 Windows 2000 Server SP3 SP4 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 SP4 Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3 SP4 VMware Inc Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements Table 1 1 Windows Host Operating Systems Processor Type Operating System Edition G4 bit Windows Vista Enterprise Edition Windows Vista Business Edition Windows Vista Home Basic and Premium Editions Windows Vista Ultimate Edition Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition SP1 Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition R2 SP2 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition A Web browser is required for the Help system Linux Host Operating Systems Workstation supports the following Linux 32 bit and 64 bit distributions and kernels for the host operating systems Workstation might not run on systems that do not meet these requirements As newer Linux kernels and distributions are released VMware modifies and tests its products for stability and reliability on those host platforms VMware makes every effort to add support for new kernels and distributions in a timely manner but until a kernel or distribution is added to the list below its use with VMware products is not supported Look for newer prebuilt modules in the download area of the VMware Web site VMware Inc 29 Workstation User s Manual Table 1 2 Linux Host Operating Systems Processor Type 3 2 bit Operating System Edition Mandriva Linux 2006
66. You can create a custom authentication script that runs on the end user s computer to determine who can use the instance To require that the script be signed before deployment to prevent tampering set a resource signing policy See Setting Resource Signing Policies on page 383 VMware Inc 377 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 378 To provide this script in packages created with an ACE enabled virtual machine 1 Create the script and save it in the ACE Resources directory inside the virtual machine s directory In Workstation select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose VM gt ACE gt Policies In the policy editor select Access Control and in the Authentication section click Set In the Set Authentication Script dialog box browse to the script file and click Open If the deployment platform setting in the deployment settings editor is set to Both Windows and Linux this dialog box contains text fields for both Windows and Linux Type the command for running the script Include the script file in the command line as well as any needed executable file for running the script and any arguments to the script Optional Select Timeout and type a timeout interval in seconds in case the script does not run to completion The user is denied access if the timeout interval elapses before the script runs to completion Click OK If you are enabling this script for an ACE enabled virtual machine that you
67. a Virtual Machine This section describes how to create duplicate or edit a launch configuration to start an application in a virtual machine To create duplicate or edit a launch configuration to start an application in a virtual machine 1 Choose Run gt Debug The Debug page is displayed You can create manage and run configurations from this page 2 You can create a launch configuration based on default settings or based on another configuration You can also edit an existing configuration Do one of the following m Create a configuration based on default settings by selecting VMware execute Java application in the left pane and clicking the New launch configuration icon at the top of the pane m Create a configuration based on another configuration by selecting the configuration you want to duplicate under VMware execute Java application in the left pane and clicking the Duplicates the currently selected configuration icon at the top of the pane m Edit an existing configuration by selecting the configuration you want to edit under VMware execute Java application in the left pane 3 Perform the remaining steps in the VMware tab of the right pane 4 Choose a virtual machine from the drop down menu of recently used and currently running virtual machines VMware Inc 469 Workstation User s Manual Click Browse to select from vmx files on the system 5 Enter your account credentials to access the guest console
68. a manual update The status bar of the guest system displays a message when a new version is available To install the update use the same procedure that you used for installing VMware Tools the first time On Windows you can alternatively open the VMware Tools control panel double click the VMware Tools icon in the notification area of the taskbar and on the Options tab click Upgrade VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools Use Global Settings to Update VMware Tools Automatically To automatically update VMware Tools for most or all Windows or Linux guests when the virtual machine starts configure the global preference first and then configure the per virtual machine update option to use that global preference To use global settings to update VMware Tools automatically 1 Start Workstation If you use a UNIX host become root su before starting Workstation On UNIX systems nonroot users are not allowed to modify the preference setting for VMware Tools updates Choose Edit gt Preferences and click the Tools tab Select the check box on this tab and click OK For each of your virtual machines do the following a Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off b Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens c Click the Options tab and select Tools d Select Use global settings from Edit gt Preferences gt Tools and click OK S
69. already deployed do one of the following m For standalone instances include the script in the update package you distribute to end users m For managed instances use a policy and server update package or a custom package that includes the ACE Resources directory to provide end users with the script Include a Power On and Power Off Script in the Package You can provide a script that runs when an ACE instance powers on that determines whether the ACE instance can be run You can provide a script that runs when an ACE instance powers off to reset any changes made to the host from a power on script reset authentication settings or perform other procedures as the instance powers off To require that the script be signed before deployment to prevent tampering set a resource signing policy See Setting Resource Signing Policies on page 383 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player The power on or power off script provides a customizable way of controlling access to an ACE instance in addition to the authentication policy To include a power on and power off script in the package 1 2 Create the script and save it in the ACE Resources folder On the access control policy page click Power on off scripts Do one of the following m Select Use power on script to set a power on script m Select Use power off script to set a power off script Click Set In the Set Custom Script di
70. and 2007 Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4 0 Mandriva Corporate Server 4 0 Mandrake Linux 10 1 Mandrake Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 19 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 5 formerly called 4 0 Update 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 0 updates 1 2 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 0 updates 1 2 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 0 updates 1 2 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 0 updates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 0 updates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3 0 updates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 1 stock 2 4 9 e3 Red Hat Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 20 8 upgrade 2 4 20 20 9 Red Hat Linux 8 0 stock 2 4 18 Red Hat Linux 7 3 stock 2 4 18 Red Hat Linux 7 2 stock 2 4 7 10 upgrade 2 4 9 7 upgrade 2 4 9 13 upgrade 2 4 9 21 upgrade 2 4 9 31 Red Hat Linux 7 1 stock 2 4 2 2 upgrade 2 4 3 12 Red Hat Linux 7 0 stock 2 2 16 22 upgrade 2 2 17 14 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 9 SP1 9 SP2 9 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 stock 2 4 19 Listed versions are also supported with no service pack 30 VMware Inc Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements Table 1 2 Linux Host Operating Systems Processor Type Operating System Edition openSUSE 10 3 openSUSE 10 2 formerly known as SUSE Linux 10 2 SUSE Linux 10 1 SU
71. and drop extraction of individual files One virtual machine to another 175 Workstation User s Manual When you drag a file or folder from host to virtual machine or the reverse Workstation copies the file or folder to the location where you drop it For example if you drop a file on the desktop icon of a word processor the word processor opens with a copy of the original file The original file does not reflect any changes you make to the copy Initially the application opens using a copy of the file that is stored in your temp directory On Windows this is the file specified in the TEMP environment variable and on Linux and Solaris it is the tmp VMwareDnD directory To protect any changes you make choose File gt Save As from the application s menu and save the file ina different directory Enable or Disable Drag and Drop To prevent files from being transferred between the virtual machine and the host disable the drag and drop feature Before you begin make sure VMware Tools is installed on the virtual machine To enable or disable drag and drop for a virtual machine 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off 2 Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens 3 Click the Options tab and select Guest Isolation 4 Select or deselect the Enable drag and drop to and from this virtual machine check box and click OK Using Copy an
72. are as follows m On Microsoft Windows systems the daemon is called VMwareService exe and the location is C Program Files VMware VMware Tools VMwareService exe m On UNIX systems the daemon is called vmware guestd The location of vmware guestd depends on the directory you specify at the time of installation The default location is usr sbin vmware guestd Use the vmx set_option command to set the option Use the following syntax lt daemon gt cmd vmx set_option lt option gt lt old_val gt lt new_val gt lt daemon gt is vmware guestd on UNIX systems or VMwareService exe on Windows systems lt option gt is one of the time synchronization options See Options for the VMware Tools cmd Command on page 135 lt old_val gt and lt new_val gt are the old and new values respectively Use 0 to mean FALSE and 1 to mean TRUE Following is an example of setting time synchronization to TRUE on a Linux guest vmware guestd cmd vmx set_option synctime 0 1 When you use command line options the new settings are written into the virtual machine s configuration vmx file For information about available commands other than the cmd command use the help command line command VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools Options for the VMware Tools cmd Command Following are the options you can use as arguments to the vmx set_option command line command synctim
73. becomes the virtual machine s machine name and IP address In this example W2K VM is the machine name and 148 30 16 24 is the IP address To use a string in a startup script to set a name and IP address 1 Define the string by using one of the following methods m On the host machine add the following line to your virtual machine s configuration file vmx file machine id W2K VM 148 30 16 24 VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools Open the virtual machine using this configuration file m Open the virtual machine from the command line by entering the following on one line C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation vmware s machine id W2K VM 148 30 16 24 C Wirtual Machines win2000 win2000 vmx 2 Doone of the following to retrieve the string in the virtual machine m Ina Windows guest enter the following command to retrieve the string VMwareService cmd machine id get m Ina Linux guest in the operating system s startup script add the following command before the network startup section For example usr sbin vmware guestd cmd machine id get The location of vmware guestd depends on the directory you specify at the time of installation 3 Further customize this startup script so that it uses the string the service retrieved during startup to set the virtual machine s network name to W2K VM and its IP address to 148 30 16 24 4 Place this string in the script before the
74. bfg_1 0 0 subdirectory of the Eclipse plug in directory m After you restart Eclipse the Debug menu includes the new launch configuration types VMware attach to application and VMware execute Java application These launch configuration types have a VMware tab that enables you to configure virtual machine settings You can debug in multiple virtual machines simultaneously You can also debug multiple sessions in a single virtual machine Host System Requirements The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger can run on any supported host operating system that is running Workstation 6 5 and has Eclipse installed Eclipse must be running on the same system as Workstation 6 5 For more information about see Eclipse Requirements on page 466 Supported Host Operating Systems The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger supports the following Windows 32 bit Linux 32 bit and Linux 64 bit host operating systems Table B 1 Windows and Linux Host Operating Systems Operating System Edition Windows 32 bit Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Home Basic and Premium Windows Vista Ultimate Windows XP Home Edition SP1 SP2 Windows XP Professional SP1 SP2 Windows 2000 Server SP3 SP4 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 SP4 Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3 SP4 VMware Inc 465 Workstation User s Manual 466 Table B 1 Windows and Linux Host Operating Systems Continued Operating S
75. boot a previously installed operating system on an existing partition within a virtual machine environment The only limitation is that the existing partition must reside on a local IDE or SCSI drive See also virtual disk VMware Inc Glossary Q quick switch mode A display mode in which the virtual machine s display fills most of the screen In this mode tabs at the top of the screen allow you to switch quickly from one running virtual machine to another See also full screen mode R raw disk See physical disk record replay feature This feature lets you record all of a Workstation 5 or 6 virtual machine s activity over a period of time Unlike Workstation s movie capture feature the record replay feature lets you exactly duplicate the operations and state of the virtual machine throughout the time of the recording redo log The file that stores changes made to a disk in all modes except the persistent and independent persistent modes For a disk in nonpersistent mode the redo log file is deleted when you power off or reset the virtual machine without writing any changes to the disk You can permanently apply the changes saved in the redo log to a disk in undoable mode so that they become part of the main disk files See also disk mode resume Return a virtual machine to operation from its suspended state When you resume a suspended virtual machine all applications are in the same state they were when the virtual ma
76. by default the virtual machine grabs keyboard and mouse input when you click in the virtual machine window VMware Inc 77 Workstation User s Manual 78 Hot Keys tab Lets you specify the key combination that is used with hot key sequences for all your virtual machines Use hot key sequences to enter and leave full screen mode ungrab mouse and keyboard input and so on Display tab Lets you adjust the manner in which the console and the host display accommodate a different guest operating system display resolution Also see Fitting the Workstation Console to the Virtual Machine Display on page 163 and Use Full Screen Mode on page 156 Memory tab For details on adjusting memory settings in VMware Workstation click the Help button on this tab On Linux you must be running Workstation as root in order to change the settings on the Memory tab of the preferences editor Priority tab For information about the snapshot settings on this tab see Enable or Disable Background Snapshots on page 192 On Linux you must be running Workstation as root in order to change this setting For information about the process priority settings available on Windows hosts click the Help button on this tab Lockout tab Windows hosts only Lets you restrict who can create new virtual machines edit virtual machine configurations and change networking settings For details see Locking Out Interface Features for Win
77. cD DvD IDE Auto detect amp Edit deployment settings E Floppy Using drive A amp Edit policies EB Network Bridged GI Preview in Player Quss Controller Present Sound Using device O serial Port Auto detect O serial Port 2 Used by Virtual Printer ig Create new package Eloise Aito dhtedt isplay uto detec n te Pocket Al k l Create Pocket ACE package Processors 1 Notes Type here to enter notes for this virtual machine A Failed to install VMware Tools eBoek For your convenience the Commands section gives you access to the most often used commands from the VM menu On Windows hosts for ACE enabled virtual machines this includes commands for creating security policies and virtual machine packages to deploy to end users as well as a command for previewing the ACE enabled virtual machine in VMware Player The section that includes the Devices Options and sometimes ACE tabs enables you to review configuration settings quickly Double click an item on the Devices or Options tab to display the item s configuration panel and change a setting VMware Inc 65 Workstation User s Manual For ACE enabled virtual machines a Package History section appears at the bottom of the summary view You might need to scroll to see this section Notes that you added to the package when creating it are displayed in the list Console View The console view for an active virtual machine is like the monitor display of a physical com
78. connected to the same virtual Ethernet switch On a Windows host you can connect an unlimited number of virtual network devices to a virtual switch On a Linux host you can connect up to 32 devices Bridged Networking Bridged networking connects a virtual machine to a network by using the host computer s network adapter If your host computer is on a network this is often the easiest way to give your virtual machine access to that network The virtual network adapter in the virtual machine connects to the physical network adapter in your host computer allowing it to connect to the LAN used by the host computer Bridged networking configures your virtual machine as a unique identity on the network separate from and unrelated to its host It makes the virtual machine visible to other computers on the network and they can communicate directly with the virtual machine Bridged networking works with Ethernet DSL wireless cards and legacy phone modems Figure 15 1 Bridged Networking Setup virtual network adapter PRES AAA LALA virtual network switch Mnet0 virtual machine host virtual bridge network adapter VMware Inc 261 Workstation User s Manual 262 How to Set Up Bridged Networking Bridged networking is set up automatically if you select Use bridged networking in the New Virtual Machine wizard or if you select the Typical setup path You can set up additional virtual bridges for custom configura
79. devices that are not claimed by a host operating system driver If the device is in use by the host and you try to connect it to the guest by using the VM gt Removable Devices menu a dialog box appears asking whether you want to disconnect the driver on the host Occasionally disconnecting the device fails A related issue sometimes affects devices that rely on automatic connection as PDAs often do Occasionally even if you successfully used autoconnection to connect the device to the virtual machine you might experience problems with the connection to the device To troubleshoot device control issues on a Linux host 1 If you have problems with automatic connections use the VM gt Removable Devices menu to disconnect the device and reconnect it 2 If the problem persists unplug the device physically and plug it in again 3 If you see a dialog box warning that the device is in use disable it in the hotplug configuration files in the etc hotplug directory See your Linux distribution s documentation for details on editing these configuration files 4 Ifa disconnection fails do one of the following as appropriate m If the driver was automatically loaded by hotplug disable it in the hotplug configuration files in the etc hotplug directory See your Linux distribution s documentation for details on editing these configuration files m Unload the device driver manually as root su by using the rmmod command
80. directory on the host or on a network directory that is accessible to the host and you give it the name you want to use on the guest To use shared folders the current version of VMware Tools must be installed in the guest operating system and the virtual machine settings must specify which directories are to be shared The shared folders can be in the host computer s file system or they can be network directories accessible from the host computer You can use shared folders with virtual machines running the following guest operating systems and on all supported host systems Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows NT 4 0 Windows Vista Linux with a kernel version of 2 4 or higher Solaris x86 10 Solaris x86 10 Update 1 Solaris x86 10 Update 2 Solaris x86 10 Update 3 VMware Inc 177 Workstation User s Manual 178 Set Up Shared Folders To set up shared folders 1 Start Workstation and select a virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens Click the Options tab and select Shared Folders Click Add On Windows clicking Add starts the Add Shared Folder wizard On Linux it opens the Shared Folder Properties dialog box Use the following information to complete the wizard or Properties dialog box m Name Name that appears inside the virtual machine m Host folder Path on the host to the directory
81. disable time synchronization by editing the virtual machine configuration file 1 Power off the virtual machine 2 Open the virtual machine s configuration file vmx in a text editor and set the following options to FALSE Option Name Synchronization Occurs During the Following Event time synchronize tools e Powering on a virtual machine Controls whether toggling nable the synctime option to TRUE causes an immediate one time synchronization to occur tools syncTime Powering on a virtual machine time synchronize restore Reverting to a snapshot time synchronize resume Resuming a suspended virtual machine disk VMware Inc 123 Workstation User s Manual 124 Option Name Synchronization Occurs During the Following Event time synchronize continu Taking a snapshot e time synchronize shrink Shrinking a virtual disk 3 Save and close the file Devices Tab Settings The Devices tab of the VMware Tools control panel provides options for enabling and connecting to removable devices such as floppy drives DVD CD ROM drives ISO images USB devices sound adapters and Ethernet adapters The controls for connecting and disconnecting devices might not be available depending on whether your system administrator enabled them You might not see a particular Ethernet adapter listed that should appear in the list If this happens edit the virtual machine settings to remove all Ethernet adapters from the li
82. double clicking the configuration file vmx file or a desktop shortcut to that file and the virtual machine powers on At the end of the working session the user shuts down by closing the virtual machine File gt Exit It is also possible to launch Workstation and open a restricted interface virtual machine from the virtual machine list or the File menu Enable the Restricted User Interface Although the restricted user interface provides no access to menu and toolbar controls for a snapshot you can give users limited snapshot control If you set up a snapshot for the restricted virtual machine and set the power off option to Ask Me the standard dialog box appears when a virtual machine shuts down and the user can choose Just Power Off Take Snapshot or Revert to Snapshot To enable the restricted user interface 1 Power off the virtual machine and close the VMware Workstation window 2 Open the virtual machine s configuration file vmx file in a text editor 3 Add the following line anywhere in the file gui restricted TRUE 4 Optional Set file permissions on the configuration file to give normal users of the system only read access to the file This prevents normal users from manually modifying the configuration 5 Create a shortcut to the configuration file on the desktop and give it an appropriate name Return to a Snapshot with Restricted User Interface You can combine a restricted user interface with a snapshot t
83. exactly reproduce the steps that cause a certain behavior To create and play back a movie of virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered on 3 Choose VM gt Capture Movie A Save File dialog box appears 4 Enter information for your movie and click Save Use the following guidelines m The Quality setting determines the compression and therefore the file size of the resulting movie m If you select Omit frames in which nothing occurs the movie includes only those periods of time when something is actually happening in the virtual machine This reduces the file size and length of the movie While movie capture is active a red circle a virtual LED appears in the notification area of the window t le 4 5 In the virtual machine perform the actions you want to have appear in the movie 6 To stop the movie choose VM gt Stop Movie Capture If you do not want to use the menu bar or if you are using the virtual machine in full screen mode you can right click the movie capture icon and choose Stop Movie Capture This icon is located in the notification area of the taskbar The red circle disappears and the movie is saved VMware Inc 7 Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines Workstation saves this image as an avi file on the host Play the movie back in any compatible media player Advanced Options for Application Developers Application developers ca
84. extracts the icon of the appropriate size for each use Customizing the Title Bar Text You can specify what text appears in the VMware Player title bar You can also specify the font and font size used to display the text The text displayed in the title bar consists of three sections a prefix the virtual machine name and a suffix The parameters listed in Table 21 2 allow you to set any prefix and suffix or to omit the prefix the suffix or both They also allow you to include or omit the virtual machine name VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player If you leave the defaults for all values the title bar displays only the virtual machine name at 32 points in the MS Shell Dlg font Table 21 2 describes the VMware Player title text parameters Table 21 2 VMware Player Title Text Parameters Parameter Type Default Controls player title prefix string Title bar prefix player title useVMName Boolean TRUE Whether the virtual machine name is displayed player title suffix string i Title bar suffix player title font face string MS Shell Dig Font name the font must be on the user s computer player title font size integer 32 Point size for the text Customizing the Removable Device Display Removable devices are represented in the VMware Player interface either by buttons on a toolbar or by menu items on a Devices menu You can specify the type of display You ca
85. features enables you to perform an unattended installation of the guest operating system after you complete the New Virtual Machine wizard It also installs VMware Tools in the guest operating system For more information about VMware Tools see Components of VMware Tools on page 103 You can select this option regardless of whether you choose a typical or a custom configuration in the New Virtual Machine wizard If you plan to use a CD DVD or ISO image that contains a product key number and is already set up to perform an unattended installation the only benefit you gain by using the easy install feature is the automatic installation of VMware Tools For this release the easy install feature is available for the following operating systems Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista The installation media that you can use include operating system installation CDs DVDs and ISO images VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine Typical Versus Custom Configurations The New Virtual Machine wizard prompts you to choose between doing a typical configuration and a custom configuration If you select Typical the wizard prompts you to specify or accept defaults for the following choices m Medium for installing the guest operating system CD image file or neither m Guest operating system m Virtual machine name and the location of the virtual machine files m Size of the virtual disk m Hardware cust
86. files on the system All specified files are copied before any pre debugging commands are executed Set Command Line to one or more semicolon delimited commands that are run after files are copied as described in the preceding step and before the debugging session starts Click Browse to enter commands using a dialog box Optional Setting Post Debug Event Properties Post Debug Event properties determine which actions are performed after the debug command is terminated All of these settings are optional To configure actions to perform after debugging has occurred 1 2 Choose VMware gt Options and select Post Debug Event in the left pane Set Command Line to one or more semicolon delimited commands that are run after the debugging session ends Click Browse to enter commands using a dialog box Set Termination Mode to m No operation default m Power off m Revert to parent snapshot VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger m Suspend Rename Configurations To rename a configuration 1 2 Choose VMware gt Options Choose the configuration you want to rename from the Configuration drop down menu and click the Edit icon In the Edit Configuration page select the configuration you want to rename and click Rename Type the new name over the existing name and press Enter At the confirmation prompt click Yes Click Close The renamed configuration is listed as t
87. gt Install VMware Tools from the Workstation menu bar VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools Additional Time Synchronization Options If the guest is set to a later time than the host you can use a command line option to synchronize time See Use the VMware Tools Command Line Interface on page 133 Under some circumstances the virtual machine might synchronize time with the host even though this item is not selected To disable time synchronization completely you can edit the virtual machine s configuration vmx file and set the time sync options to FALSE See Disable Time Synchronization by Editing the Virtual Machine Configuration File on page 123 Disable Time Synchronization by Editing the Virtual Machine Configuration File Under some circumstances the virtual machine might synchronize time with the host even though you used the VMware Tools control panel Options tab to disable time synchronization If you see this problem disable time synchronization by editing the virtual machine configuration file You can follow these steps to keep a fictitious time in your guest so that the guest is never synchronized with the host You can alternatively use the VMware Tools command line interface to set these time synchronization options If you use this command line interface you do not need to power off the virtual machine See Use the VMware Tools Command Line Interface on page 133 To
88. hide the rest of the virtual machine user interface Using Unity Mode In virtual machines with some guest operating systems you can switch to unity mode to display applications directly on the host desktop The virtual machine console view is hidden and you can minimize the Workstation window Your taskbar displays items for open applications in unity mode just as it does for open host applications NOTE If you save a file or attempt to open a file from within an application in unity mode the file system you see is the file system inside the virtual machine You cannot open a file from the host operating system or save a file to the host operating system When a virtual machine is in unity mode you can access the virtual machine s Start menu for Windows virtual machines or Applications menu for Linux virtual machines by placing the mouse pointer over the host s Start or Applications menu For this beta release the unity feature has the following limitations m Only newer versions of Windows guests are supported These include Windows 2000 and higher Linux guests can sometimes use unity mode m You can copy and paste text but not files between the host and guests in unity mode Neither can you drag and drop files between host and guest m If you have multiple monitors application windows in unity mode can appear only on the monitor that is set as the primary display On Windows hosts this setting is configured in your
89. inserting a hash character at the beginning of the line VMware Inc 315 Workstation User s Manual 316 The name of the configuration file depends on the Linux distribution When you reboot the host after removing this line the configuration file no longer starts the Lp module To ensure that the proper modules for the parallel port are loaded at boot time add this line to the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Configure Parallel Poris for Linux 2 4 x Kernels The 2 4 x kernels that support parallel ports use the parport parport_pc and ppdev modules Workstation requires that the parallel port PC style hardware option CONFIG_PARPORT_PC be built and loaded as a kernel module That is it must be set to m Support for user space parallel device drivers CONFIG_PPDEV must also be enabled To configure parallel ports for Linux 2 4 x kernels 1 Determine whether the parport parport_pc and ppdev modules are installed and loaded on your system by running the 1smod command as the root user These three modules are included in the listing of loaded modules You can also look at the proc modules file for the list To load the proper modules run this command insmod lt modulename gt If none of the listed parallel port modules is loaded use this command insmod parport_pc This command inserts the parport and parport_pcmodules needed for a parallel port Use thi
90. installer for the MSI 2 0 runtime engine is included in the VMware ACE package as the instmsiw exe file VMware Inc Chapter 24 Installing ACE Instances To install the MSI 2 0 runtime engine from an ACE package 1 On the host computer open a command prompt 2 Enter the following command instmsiw exe Q For additional details on how to use the Microsoft Windows Installer see the Microsoft Web site Install an ACE Instance on Multiple Hosts You can use the Microsoft Windows Installer command line interface to silently install an ACE instance on many computers End users are not prompted for information during the installation process You can customize the basic package installation command to specify one or more of the following m Installation directory for the ACE instance m Installation directory for VMware Player m Installation without a desktop icon You can also install an upgrade silently An upgrade is always installed in the same directory or directories as the previous package To install the ACE instance on multiple hosts 1 On the host computer open a command prompt 2 Enter the following command setup exe s v qn This command installs the package and VMware Player if included into the default locations and creates a shortcut for the ACE instance on the desktop The default location for the VMware Player application is C Program Files VMware VMware Player The default location for the virtual machine fi
91. instance VMware Inc 393 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Before you use the policy editor determine a strategy for setting the policy If you want a restricted environment you can plan to generally block access to all USB devices and then specify exactly which classes or specific devices to allow See Access Levels for USB Devices on page 393 To set an access policy for USB devices 1 Inthe policy editor select USB Devices 2 Use the General access to all USB devices radio buttons to specify whether to allow or block general access to USB devices 3 To specify a USB policy by device class a Ifthe device does not appear in the Access to specific types of USB devices list click Add select the device in the USB Device Classes dialog box and click OK You can Ctrl click and Shift click items to select more than one class b Use the Allow and Block check boxes in the Access to specific types of USB devices list to specify the rule for each device in the list 4 To specify a USB policy by specific device a Ifthe device does not appear in the Access to individual USB device models list click Add select the device in the USB Device List dialog box and click OK If the device does not appear in the USB Device List dialog box do one of the following m Connect the device to the host and click Refresh m Determine the devices vendor ID VID and product ID PID and click Manual Add to enter the information Th
92. is the package protection policy that was in place at the time of packaging VMware Inc 437 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Deploy a Single Pocket ACE Package to a Device Before you begin make sure the removable device meets the hardware and disk space requirements See Portable Device Requirements on page 435 To deploy a single Pocket ACE package to a device 1 2 3 4 Navigate to the package location you specified in the New Pocket ACE Package wizard Run the deploy exe file If the Enter Password dialog box appears enter the deployment password Complete the VMware Pocket ACE Deploy Utility dialog box When you distribute the Pocket ACE give it directly to the user and tell the user to keep the Pocket ACE secure until the user runs the ACE and changes the user password Deploy Multiple Pocket ACE Packages to a Device Before you begin make sure the removable device meets the hardware and disk space requirements See Portable Device Requirements on page 435 To deploy multiple Pocket ACE packages to a device 1 Parameter Open a command prompt and change directories to your bulk deployment directory For example enter the following command cd C Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents Virtual Machines ACE Enabled Virtual Machine Packages Pocket ACE Package Enter the following bulk deployment command and specify the necessary parameters bulkDeploy exe lt drive gt lt par
93. is the same as installing it ona physical computer The rest of this chapter describes this method of creating a virtual machine Clone a virtual machine from an existing VMware virtual machine or virtual machine template Clones are useful when you must deploy many identical virtual machines to a group Cloning is preferable to copying a virtual machine because a clone s MAC 85 Workstation User s Manual address and UUID are different from the original virtual machine to avoid network conflicts Use the Clone Virtual Machine wizard to create a clone See Cloning a Virtual Machine on page 201 m Converta physical machine virtual machine or system image that was created by using another VMware product or a third party product This process creates a clone of the original virtual machine or system image Use the Converter Import wizard to convert a physical or virtual machine or a system image See Chapter 7 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine on page 137 Configuration Options for the New Virtual Machine Wizard 86 As you complete the New Virtual Machine wizard you are prompted to make decisions about many aspects of the virtual machine The topics in this section provide information about the issues involved so that you can determine which choices you want to make before running the wizard Easy Install Feature for Windows Guest Operating Systems The easy install
94. it is using at least one of these gateways WINS servers Specifies one or more IP addresses or host names for WINS servers on the network A network adapter matches this condition if it is using at least one of these servers Linux hosts ignore WINS server settings during zone detection If the value of the Match at least option is greater than 1 the host must be using the specified number of WINS servers on the list before a network adapter is considered to be on the defined network Add or Edit a Network Zone Use the zone editor to configure the network address domain DNS DHCP WINS or gateway servers that an ACE instance can use for network connections Before you open the zone editor determine what criteria to use for connecting to internal and external networks See Guidelines for Specifying Zone Conditions on page 386 and Descriptions of the Zone Condition Settings on page 387 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player To add or edit a network zone 1 Inthe policy editor select Network Access 2 Inthe Network Access settings panel do one of the following m To add a zone click Add Zone and click the New Zone entry that appears in the table m To edit a zone click the name of the zone in the Zones column of the table 3 Complete the fields in the zone editor that appears and click OK Using the Ruleset Editor to Configure Host and Guest Access Each access se
95. its summary tab If it is the parent of a linked clone a Snapshot line appears on its summary tab m If the virtual hard disk is an independent disk it is in persistent mode To change the mode see Exclude a Virtual Disk from Snapshots on page 192 for a discussion of independent disks To shrink a virtual disk 1 2 218 Launch the VMware Tools control panel m Fora Windows guest double click the VMware Tools icon in the notification area of the taskbar If the icon is not available choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel and double click VMware Tools m Fora Linux Solaris or FreeBSD guest open a terminal window become root and run vmware toolbox If you shrink disks as a nonroot user you cannot wipe the parts of the virtual disk that require root level permissions In the VMware Tools control panel click the Shrink tab VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives If the virtual machine does not allow shrinking the Shrink tab shows the reason 3 Select virtual disks to shrink and click Prepare to Shrink If you deselect some partitions the whole disk still shrinks However those partitions are not wiped for shrinking and the shrink process does not reduce the size of the virtual disk as much as it would with all partitions selected VMware Tools reclaims all unused portions of disk partitions such as deleted files and prepares them for shrinking During this phase you can still i
96. location of mnt hgfs You can use the mount program to mount all shares one share or a subdirectory within a share to any location in your file system for example mount t vmhgfs host home user1 shares VMware Inc Chapter 9 Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest mounts all shares to home user1 shares mount t vmhgfs host foo tmp foo mounts the share named foo to tmp foo mount t vmhgfs host foo bar var lib bar mounts the subdirectory bar within the share foo to var 1ib bar When you use the mount program you can use VMware specific options in addition to the standard mount syntax To see usage information host guest file system options enter this command sbin mount vmhgfs h NOTE When you install VMware Tools an entry is made to etc fstab to specify the location of shared folders You can edit this file to change or add entries To use mount in this way you must use the virtual machine settings editor in Workstation to set up and enable a shared folder After the share exists you can mount it to other locations besides the default In previous versions of VMware Tools when a Linux guest attempted to mount a shared folder the vmware guestd program attempted to perform the mount If it failed the only evidence of the failure was an empty folder With the new version of VMware Tools the Tools services script loads a driver that performs the mount If the mount fails a message
97. machine is powered on and the guest operating system is running To install VMware Tools in a Solaris guest 1 2 3 VMware Inc On the host choose VM gt Install VMware Tools On the guest log in as root su If necessary mount the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image Usually the Solaris volume manager vold mounts the CD ROM under cdrom vmwaretools If the CD ROM is not mounted restart the volume manager using the following commands etc init d volmgt stop etc init d volmgt start After the CD ROM is mounted change to a working directory for example tmp and extract VMware Tools by entering the following commands 113 Workstation User s Manual 114 cd tmp gunzip c cdrom vmwaretools vmware solaris tools tar gz tar xf Run the VMware Tools tar installer cd vmware tools distrib mmare install pl Respond to the configuration questions on the screen Press Enter to accept the default value Log out of the root account exit Start your graphical environment In an X terminal enter the following command to start the VMware Tools control panel vmware toolbox amp To change the default VMware Tools configuration options see Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Install VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Guest Before you begin make sure the virtual machine is powered on and the guest operating system is running To install VMware Tools in a FreeBSD guest 1 2 On t
98. managed virtual machines it is Server Update Among other policies a server update package allows you to change the server that the ACE enabled virtual machine is associated with or change an activation only server setup to an activation and tracking setup Custom package Allows you to choose specific items to deploy Pocket ACE package The components for a Pocket ACE package vary slightly from those for the full package For information about the Pocket ACE package see Create a Pocket ACE Package on page 436 The deployment settings and device settings that you already set for an ACE enabled virtual machine allow you to create multiple packages quickly You can use the same settings again and again Package validation occurs after you complete the New Package wizard Package validation does the following VMware Inc Checks that all files that the ACE enabled virtual machine requires are present Those files include m Disk and snapshot files m Script files if any policy is using scripts NOTE Package validation does not check for device files ISO images FLP images and so on To include device files in the package put the files in the ACE Resources folder for the ACE enabled virtual machine and set the devices to point to that location Checks that the ACE enabled virtual machine can be cloned that it is powered off multiple snapshots are enabled and it is not read only Checks that the lates
99. more Global Configuration Settings To use full screen switch mode you must set the msg autoAnswer property in the Workstation global configuration file This setting causes Workstation to suppress any Workstation dialog boxes that otherwise appear The default answer is selected in these dialog boxes The global configuration file created when you change any of the default settings in the Workstation preferences editor Edit gt Preferences The file location depends on the host operating system m On most Windows hosts C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware VMware Workstation config ini m On Windows Vista hosts C Users ALL Users Application Data VMware VMware Workstation config ini Full screen switch mode is enabled for Windows hosts only On Linux the configuration file is located in etc vmware config VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts Specify Global Configuration Settings for Full Screen Switch Mode To specify global configuration settings for full screen switch mode 1 Ifthe config ini file does not yet exist on your host computer choose Edit gt Preferences from the Workstation menu bar and change at least one of the settings in the preference editor 2 Open the config ini file with a text editor and add the following line msg autoAnswer TRUE 3 Optional Specify other full screen switch mode settings you want to use To specify hot
100. more information go to the Microsoft TechNet Web site and in the Windows Server Library search for LicenseFilePrintData Sysprep If this file is not found in the virtual machine directory a default is used AutoMode is set to PerServer with 5 client licenses If you supply this file the license portion of the Mini Setup process appears unchanged during preview You always see AutoMode PerServer and AutoUsers 5 in the Mini Setup user interface The license information you supply is nevertheless set correctly by the Mini Setup process Set Up a Remote Domain Join The remote domain join feature provides an automated way to join ACE instances to a domain from a remote site After the ACE package is installed on the end user s machine and the ACE instance is activated and authenticated the Microsoft Mini Setup process runs The script for VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances joining the remote ACE instance to the domain executes at the end of that process and the machine is joined to the domain Before you begin perform the following tasks Determine which VPN client to download The VPN client must support a command line interface so that a script can be used for logging in to the VPN server You might need to contact the VPN product s technical support to find out whether the VPN client supports a command line interface Obtain a VPN account for logging in to the server Credentials include a user name and pa
101. more information see Changing a Networking Configuration on page 267 Common Networking Configurations 260 The following sections illustrate the networking configurations that are set up for you automatically when you choose the standard networking options in the New Virtual Machine wizard or the virtual machine settings editor If you select the Typical setup path in the New Virtual Machine wizard the wizard sets up bridged networking for the virtual machine Select the Custom setup path to choose any of the other common configurations bridged networking network address translation NAT and host only networking The wizard connects the virtual machine to the appropriate virtual network VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network You can set up more specialized configurations by choosing the appropriate settings in the virtual machine settings editor in the virtual network editor on Windows hosts and on your host computer On a Windows host the software needed for all networking configurations is installed when you install Workstation On a Linux host when you install and configure Workstation you can choose whether to have bridged host only and NAT networking available to your virtual machines You must choose all options during configuration to make all networking configurations available for your virtual machines Only one virtual machine is shown in each example but multiple virtual machines can be
102. name Set Virtual Machine Properties Virtual machine properties include The path to the virtual machine file vmx file Optional The location of any directories shared between the host and the guest To set virtual machine properties 1 2 VMware Inc Choose VMware gt Options and select Virtual Machine in the left pane Set Virtual Machine to the path to the virtual machine file vmx file Click Browse to select from vmx files on the system Optional Set Shared Folders to a semicolon delimited list of paired folder names in the form lt shared_name gt lt host_folder_name gt Click Browse to enter share names and folder names using a dialog box 487 Workstation User s Manual 488 Optional Set Pre Debug Event Properties Pre Debug Event properties determine which actions are performed before the debug command is run All of these settings are optional To configure actions to perform before beginning debugging 1 2 Choose VMware gt Options and select Pre Debug Event in the left pane Set Revert to Parent Snapshot to Yes or No If set to Yes the virtual machine reverts to its parent snapshot when the debugging session is started The default is No Set Copy Files to a semicolon delimited list of paired file or directory names that are copied from the host to the guest machine in the form lt host_machine_file folder gt lt virtual_machine_file folder gt Click Browse to select from
103. of processors supported 2 Change this setting to two processors so that you can power on the virtual machine in Workstation After you commit a change to this setting the original setting for number of processors is discarded and no longer appears as an option in the virtual machine settings editor Move a Virtual Machine to a New Location or a New Host Use the procedure in this section either to move the virtual machine to a different location on the same host or to move it to a new host This section applies to virtual machines created with all these VMware products Workstation 4 x 5 x 6 x GSX Server 3 x VMware Server 1 x ESX Server 2 x or 3 x VMware ACE 1 x 2 x For more information about virtual machine formats from older VMware products see Legacy Virtual Disks on page 231 To move a virtual machine to a new location or a new host 1 Make sure that all the virtual machine files are stored in the virtual machine directory For example if you configured the working directory to be located in a different location on the host move it into the virtual machine directory and use the virtual VMware Inc 207 Workstation User s Manual 208 machine settings editor VM gt Settings gt Options gt General to point to this location If the virtual machine you want to move is a linked clone see Moving Linked Clones on page 209 Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine C
104. on page 367 Customize the Toolbar on a Linux Host You can customize the Workstation toolbar by adding removing and rearranging toolbar buttons On a Linux host all the buttons are contained in a single toolbar To customize the toolbar on a Linux host 1 Right click the far right side of the toolbar to display a Toolbar menu Snapshot View Replay Desktop Style Icons Only Text Only Icons and Text Selective Text Beside Icons 2 Choose Power Snapshot View or Replay to add or remove the corresponding toolbar buttons When a choice is checked the corresponding buttons are displayed 3 In the lower part of the menu choose the display style for toolbar buttons VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Customize the Toolbar on a Windows Host You can customize the Workstation toolbar by adding removing and rearranging toolbar buttons On a Windows host the toolbar buttons are arranged in separate toolbars for power buttons snapshot buttons view buttons and record replay buttons To customize the toolbar on a Windows host 1 VMware Inc Right click any part of the toolbar to display a Toolbar menu v Power v Snapshot vy ACE v view v Replay Customize Click Power Snapshot ACE View or Replay to add or remove that toolbar When a toolbar is checked it is displayed To change which buttons appear in a toolbar or the order in which they appear display that toolb
105. operate on virtual machines not on the whole team When a team is active the Snapshot button on the toolbar takes a snapshot of only the active virtual machine To preserve the state of all virtual machines on a team power off the team and take a snapshot of each virtual machine before you power on the team again VMware Inc 257 Workstation User s Manual 258 VMware Inc Configuring a Virtual Network This chapter previews the virtual networking components that VMware Workstation provides and shows how to use them with your virtual machine This chapter includes the following topics Components of the Virtual Network on page 259 Common Networking Configurations on page 260 Example of a Custom Networking Configuration on page 265 Changing a Networking Configuration on page 267 Configuring Bridged Networking on page 269 Changing the Subnet or DHCP Settings for a Virtual Network on page 272 Configuring Host Virtual Network Adapters on page 275 Components of the Virtual Network VMware Workstation provides the bridged network address translation NAT host only and custom networking options to configure a virtual machine for virtual networking The following sections describe the devices that make up a virtual network Virtual Switch Like a physical switch a virtual switch lets you connect other networking components together Virtual switches are created as needed by Workstatio
106. or orientations When entering full screen mode the monitor containing the Workstation window cannot be below another monitor Put another way When you use the Windows display properties controls if you select a monitor icon and begin to drag it to a new location a pop up displays the coordinates If a coordinate shown for the new location of the icon is a negative number that location will not work VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines To use multiple monitors for one virtual machine 1 N oO A Q VMware Inc Choose Edit gt Preferences Click the Display tab and in the Full Screen section select Autofit guest and click OK Select a virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab select Display If Display does not appear in the list on the Hardware tab it probably means that the virtual machine is a Workstation 4 or 5 virtual machine Only Workstation 6 or higher virtual machines have this feature On the settings panel for the Display tab specify how to determine the number of monitors In most cases select Use host setting for monitors This option means that if the virtual machine is run on a host that is using one monitor the virtual machine will see only one monitor But if the same virtual machine is moved to a host that is using two monitors the virtual machine will see two monitors Here the number of monitors de
107. other than the VMware Player icon place the new ico icon files in the ACE Resources directory For icons sizes and skin file parameters see Customizing the VMware Player Icons on page 408 4 In Workstation close the ACE enabled virtual machine 5 Usea text editor to open the aceMaster dat file in the virtual machine directory and add the following line vmplayer skin lt filename gt Because the skin file is in the ACE Resources directory you do not need to specify the directory path to the file 6 Save and close the aceMaster dat file Customizing the VMware Player Icons VMware Player has separate large and small application icons The large icon is used in the application switching interface visible when you press Alt Iab The size of the large icon is usually 32x32 pixels but VMware Player uses whatever size is specified for icon size in the system preference The small 16x16 pixels icon is used in the VMware Player title bar and on the Windows taskbar button for VMware Player The icons used for these purposes must be in ico file format and located in the ACE Resources subdirectory in the virtual machine directory The applicable parameters in the skin file include the following player iconSmall lt filename gt player iconLarge lt filename gt One ico file can contain multiple icons of different sizes You can specify the same ico file for player iconSmall and player iconLarge VMware Player
108. player deviceBar ethernetO buttonStyle icon player deviceBar ide1 0 buttonStyle icon player deviceBar audio buttonStyle icon VMware Inc Deploying ACE Instances This chapter provides instructions for specifying deployment settings for the packages creating ACE packages and deploying packages to end users This chapter includes the following topics Edit Deployment Settings on page 413 Review the Configuration of an ACE Enabled Virtual Machine on page 424 Use Preview Mode to Test Policy and Deployment Settings on page 425 Creating a Package on page 426 Perform an End to End Deployment Test on page 431 Deploy Packages on page 433 Edit Deployment Settings Deployment settings enable you to configure package characteristics such as instance customization and encryption and then apply those settings to as many packages as you choose Changes to deployment settings affect only packages created after the changes are made They do not apply to existing packages Before you can use the deployment settings editor on a virtual machine you must enable ACE features for that virtual machine See Overview of Creating and Deploying ACE Packages on page 370 To edit deployment settings 1 Select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose VM gt ACE gt Deployment Settings 2 Inthe deployment settings editor select an item in the Setting list VMware Inc 413 VMware ACE Admi
109. range the instance can be powered on and run no earlier or later than the start and end dates You can deploy ACE instances with expired date ranges You can also set and customize a warning message that appears each time an instance powers on as the expiration date approaches An expiration message appears when the instance expires and the instance can no longer be powered on A standalone ACE instance has the same expiration policy as all instances created from the corresponding ACE package The fixed expiration date or the fixed date range is established at activation time Each time the user powers on the instance the date or date range is checked Expiration checks are also performed while the instance is running If the expiration is reached an expiration message appears and the instance is suspended With a managed ACE instance the expiration policy works similarly as for standalone instances but the expiration policy value can be specified for individual instances A valid date range for an ACE enabled virtual machine applies to each of its associated ACE instances until an instance is individually configured with its own date range After that configuration any changes to the ACE enabled virtual machine s expiration VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player policy do not affect the instance All expiration values both for ACE enabled virtual machines and for all ACE instances are dynamic
110. retry instance customization The problem is intermittent and restarting might solve the problem 454 VMware Inc Workstation Command Line Reference This appendix discusses the command line options that are available for the vmware program and the vmrun program This appendix contains the following topics m Startup Options for Workstation and Virtual Machines on page 455 m Command Line Application for Operating Virtual Machines on page 457 For information abut using the vmware ful screen command to use full screen switch mode see Starting and Stopping Virtual Machines on a User s Computer on page 361 Startup Options for Workstation and Virtual Machines Table A 1 describes options available when you run VMware Workstation from the command line You can type these commands in a Linux terminal window or at the Windows command prompt You can also create scripts to run multiple commands The syntax for this command is m Ona Linux host operating system usr bin vmware n x X m t q s lt variablename gt lt value gt Fe E A A A ET an Eul X toolkit options m Ona Windows host operating system C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Programs vmware exe B n x X t q s lt variablename gt lt value gt v lt path_to_virtual_machine gt lt virtual_machine_name gt vmx VMware Inc 455 Workstation User s Manual Table A 1 Command Line Options for the vmware
111. root su If necessary mount the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image by entering a command similar to the following 111 Workstation User s Manual 112 mount dev cdrom mnt cdrom Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD ROMs If your distribution uses automounting you can skip this step Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the dev directory differently If your CD ROM drive is not dev cdrom or if the mount point for a CD ROM is not mnt cdrom modify the command to reflect the conventions used by your distribution Change to a working directory by entering a command such as the following cd tmp If a previous installation exists delete the previous vmware tools distrib directory before installing The location of this directory depends on where you placed it during the previous installation Often it is placed in tmp vmware tools distrib Run the installer and unmount the CD ROM image Depending on whether you are using the tar installer or the RPM installer do one of the following m For the tar installer at the command prompt enter tar zxpf mnt cdrom VMwareTools 5 0 0 lt xxxx gt tar gzumount dev cdrom Where lt xxxx gt is the build number of the Workstation release m For the RPM installer at the command prompt enter rpm Uhv mnt cdrom VMwareTools 5 0 0 lt xxxx gt 1386 rpmumount dev cdrom Where lt xxxx gt is the build number of the Workstation releas
112. s configuration file and the snapshot name Path to vmx file snapshot name If several snapshots have the same name you can still specify a snapshot by including a path name for the snapshot name A path name is a series of snapshot names separated by forward slash characters Each name specifies a different snapshot in the tree For example suppose you include the path name Snap1 Snap2 This will identify a snapshot named Snap2 that was taken from the state of a root snapshot named Snap1 Because you can use the forward slash in a path name VMware recommends that you avoid using the slash character when you name a snapshot because this makes it difficult for you to predict which snapshot a path name will identify Parameters Path to vmx file snapshot name or Path to vmx file snapshot name1 snapshot name2 Guest Operating System Commands runProgramInGuest Run a program in the guest operating system Path to vmx file Program Program arguments fileExistsInGuest Check whether the specified file exists in the Path to vmx file guest system Path to file in guest setSharedFolderState Modify the location of a folder shared between Path to vmx file the host and guest Share name New path to folder on host addSharedFolder Add a folder to be shared between the host and Path to vmx file guest Share name Path to folder on host removeSharedFolder Remove
113. script creates a compressed tgz file in the user s home directory Because the script is not run as root the script displays messages indicating that it cannot collect some information This is normal If the VMware support team needs that information a support representative will ask you to run the script from the command line as root For instructions see To run the support script on a Linux host on page 22 5 Submit a support request to the VMware support team and include the data file The URL is www vmware com requestsupport To run the support script on a Windows host 1 Open a command prompt 2 Change to the VMware Workstation program directory VMware Inc 21 Workstation User s Manual 22 cd Program Files VMware VMware Workstation If you did not install the program in the default directory use the appropriate drive letter and path in the cd command above Run the support script cscript vm support vbs After the script runs it displays the name of the directory where it has stored its output Use a file compression utility such as WinZip or PKZIP to zip the script output directory and include the zip file with your support request If you are reporting a problem you encountered while installing VMware Workstation you should also include your installation log file On a Windows host the file is VMInst log It is saved in your Temp folder On a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 ho
114. system The shrink process is the second step and it takes place outside the virtual machine The VMware application reduces the size of the disk based on the disk space reclaimed during the preparation step If the disk has empty space this process reduces the amount of space the virtual disk occupies on the host drive On UNIX guests run VMware Tools as the root user su to shrink virtual disks If you shrink the virtual disk as a nonroot user you cannot prepare to shrink the parts of the virtual disk that require root level permissions See Shrink a Virtual Disk on page 218 VMware Inc 125 Workstation User s Manual About Tab The About tab displays version build number and copyright information In Windows guests this tab also shows the status of the VMware Tools service Configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest In a NetWare virtual machine using the system console you can configure certain virtual machine options such as time synchronization CPU idling and device configuration with VMware Tools The VMware Tools command line program is called vmwtool To configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest 1 Open a terminal window system console in the NetWare guest 2 Enter a command that uses the following format vmwtool lt command gt lt command gt is one of the commands listed in the following table vmwtool Command Description help Displays a summary of VMware Tools commands and options ina Net
115. that virtual adapter is connected to the default host only interface vmnet1 To use this configuration see Set Up Using Configuration 1 or 2 on page 288 Configuration 2 The virtual machine is configured with one virtual network adapter and that virtual adapter is connected to the newly created host only interface vmnet2 To use this configuration see Set Up Using Configuration 1 or 2 on page 288 Configuration 3 The virtual machine is configured with two virtual network adapters One virtual adapter is connected to the default host only interface vmnet1 and the other virtual adapter is connected to the newly created host only interface vmnet2 To use this configuration see Set Up Using Configuration 3 on page 289 Set Up Using Configuration 1 or 2 To set up using configuration 1 or 2 1 Select the virtual machine It can be either powered off or powered on From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens On the Hardware tab select Ethernet In the Network Connection section do one of the following m To connect to the default host only interface vmnet1 select Host only m Toconnect to the newly created host only interface select Custom and choose vmnet2 Host only from the drop down list on the right VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking 5 Optional If no network adapter is shown in the list of devices add one
116. that you want to remove 2 Select the team and choose Team gt Remove gt lt virtual machine name gt The selected virtual machine is removed from the team You might want to perform these tasks after removing the virtual machine m Add the virtual machine to the Favorites list See To add virtual machines and teams to the Favorites list on page 73 m Delete the virtual machine and erase its files from the host file system See Delete a Virtual Machine on page 153 Specify the Startup Sequence for a Team Use a startup sequence to specify the order in which virtual machines start and stop and the delay in seconds between starting and stopping the next virtual machine in the sequence Power on and resume operations occur in the order of the sequence shown in the team settings list Power off operations occur in reverse order The default sequence is the order in which you added the virtual machines to the team The default delay is 10 seconds Setting a startup sequence is useful for example if you have a virtual machine that runs an application to be tested and you want it to start before the virtual machines running an automated testing script Setting a delay avoids overloading the CPU when multiple virtual machines start and allows applications on a virtual machine to launch before another team virtual machine attempts to connect To specify a startup sequence for a team 1 Select the team and choose Team gt Se
117. that you want to share If you specify a directory on a network share such as D share Workstation always attempts to use that path If the directory is later connected to the host on a different drive letter the shared folder cannot be located m Enabled or Enable this share Deselect this option to disable a shared folder without deleting it from the virtual machine configuration You can enable the folder by selecting the check box next to its name in the list To enable a folder at a later time select its name in the list click Properties and enable the folder in the Properties dialog box m Read only Select this option to prevent the virtual machine from changing the contents of the shared folder in the host file system Access to files in the shared folder is also governed by permission settings on the host computer To change these properties use the Properties dialog box On Windows after you select Shared Folders on the Options tab click Properties Optional To enable shared folders for a virtual machine after a shared folder is created on the Shared Folders settings panel use one of the check boxes in the Folder Sharing section m Select Enabled until next power off or suspend to enable folder sharing temporarily until you power off or suspend the virtual machine VMware Inc Chapter 9 Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest If you select Enabled until next power off or suspend and rest
118. the Microsoft Windows Found New Hardware wizard prompts you to run it Select the default action Install the software automatically After the software is installed the guest operating system detects the USB device and searches for a suitable driver When you synchronize a PDA such as a Palm handheld or Handspring Visor to a virtual machine for the first time the total time required to load the VMware USB device driver in the host and the PDA driver in the guest might exceed the device s connection timeout value This causes the device to disconnect itself from the computer before the guest can synchronize with it If this occurs let the guest finish installing the PDA driver dismiss any connection error warnings and try synchronizing the PDA again The second attempt should succeed Replace USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host To use Workstation on a Windows 2000 host that has USB 2 0 ports you must use the Microsoft USB 2 0 drivers for the USB controller in the host operating system If your host operating system is using a third party driver a driver supplied by your motherboard vendor for example you must replace it To replace USB 2 0 drivers on a Windows 2000 host 1 To determine the provider of the USB driver open the Device Manager as follows a Right click My Computer and choose Properties b Click the Hardware tab and click Device Manager 2 Expand the listing for Universal Serial Bus controllers 3 Right click the l
119. the NAT network type For more information see Common Networking Configurations on page 260 To find the network type of a virtual machine 1 2 3 Select the virtual machine Choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware Select the network adapter The Network Connection section displays the details that allows you to change the settings If you want to change the network type see Modify Existing Virtual Network Adapters on page 269 Add Virtual Network Adapters Before you begin determine the network type you want to use See Common Networking Configurations on page 260 To add new virtual network adapters 1 2 Power off the virtual machine to which you want to add the adapter Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens On the Hardware tab click Add The Add Hardware wizard starts Select Network adapter and click Next Select the network type you want to use Optional If you select Custom choose the vmnet network you want to use from the drop down list Although vmnet0 vmnet1 and vmnet8 are technically available in this list they are normally used for bridged host only and NAT configurations respectively VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network Special steps are required to make them available for use in custom configurations You should choose one of the other switches Click Finish The new adapter is added Click OK to save your configu
120. the New Virtual Machine wizard See Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard on page 92 m Existing Virtual Machine Opens a file browser from which you can navigate the host file system to locate an existing vmx file When you add a virtual machine to a team it can no longer be accessed outside the team See Add a Virtual Machine to a Team on page 251 m New Clone of Virtual Machine Opens a file browser from which you can navigate the host file system to locate an existing vmx file After you select a virtual machine Workstation launches the Clone Virtual Machine wizard See Creating Clones on page 203 c Specify whether to add one or more LAN segments You can add LAN segments after you create the team by using the Team menu If you add LAN segments while creating the team you can change default names and bandwidth later See Working with Team Networks on page 254 After the team is created you can add it to the Favorites list Use the Team menu to configure the team further or to add and remove virtual machines Open a Team and Add It to the Favorites List Opening a team displays its summary tab but does not power on the virtual machines included in the team To open a team and add it to the Favorites list 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose File gt Open 2 Browse to the location of the vmtm file for the team you want VMware Inc 247 Workstation User s Manual 248 3 Select t
121. the Serial Port Type page select Output to Named Pipe and click Next Depending on whether you are using a Linux host or a Windows host do one of the following m For a Windows host on the Specify Named Pipe page specify the pipe name The pipe name must follow the form pipe lt namedpipe gt That is it must begin with pipe m Fora Linux host in the Path field enter tmp lt socket gt or another UNIX socket name Select This end is the server Select The other end is a virtual machine Make sure the Connect at power on check box is selected if desired Click Finish to return to the virtual machine settings editor Optional On the Hardware tab to configure this serial port to use polled mode select Yield CPU on poll This option is of interest to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection If the serial port in the guest is being used in polled mode rather than interrupt mode you might notice performance issues This option forces the virtual machine to yield processor time if the only task it is trying to do is poll the virtual serial port Power on the virtual machine Repeat Step 1 through Step 13 for the second virtual machine but at Step 8 select This end is the client 321 Workstation User s Manual 322 Change the Input Speed of the Serial Connection This option increases the speed of a serial connection over a pipe to a virtual machine In principle th
122. the Sidebar 72 Check for Product Updates 74 Quickly Create a Virtual Machine 75 Introduction to Workstation Preferences 76 Introduction to Virtual Machine Settings 79 Hardware Tab 79 Options Tab 80 Closing Virtual Machines and Exiting Workstation 81 Set a Virtual Machine to Run in the Background 82 Keyboard Shortcuts 82 4 VMware Inc Contents Creating a Virtual Machine 85 Methods of Creating Virtual Machines 85 Configuration Options for the New Virtual Machine Wizard 86 Easy Install Feature for Windows Guest Operating Systems 86 Typical Versus Custom Configurations 87 Guest Operating System Selection 88 Virtual Machine Location 88 Number of Processors 89 Network Connection Type 89 SCSI Adapter Types 90 Normal and Independent Disk Modes 90 Virtual Disks and Physical Disks 91 Disk Capacity 91 Pocket ACE Disk Size Calculator on Windows Only 91 Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard 92 Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Typical Setup 92 Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Custom Setup 94 Install a Guest Operating System Manually 96 Use a Paravirtualized Kernel in Linux Guests to Enhance Performance 98 Upgrade a Guest Operating System 99 Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine 100 Installing and Using VMware Tools 103 VMware Inc Components of VMware Tools 103 VMware Tools Service 104 VMware Device Drivers 104 VMware User Process 105 VMware Tools Control Panel 105 Installing VMware Tools 105 Manua
123. the debugging mode automatically gets set to Full If you later disable record replay you need to manually set debugging mode back to Normal See Set the Debugging Mode on page 242 To enable record replay for a virtual machine 1 2 VMware Inc Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor appears Click the Options tab and select Snapshot Replay On the Snapshot Replay settings panel select the Enable replay check box Optional As a safety precaution use the When Recording controls to limit how much disk space the recording can use m Setting the Max disk space to Unlimited uses much more disk space than setting it to 500MB 235 Workstation User s Manual m Selecting the Save the last sets the duration of the time you want to save the recording Setting the Marker frequency to High every 1 hour uses much more disk space than setting it to Low every 6 hours 6 Optional Select the Enable VAssert check box if you plan to use VMware VAssert to debug applications VAssert enables developers and support engineers to take advantage of traditional assert and logging capabilities to debug errors in replay logs The asserts appear only during replay of a recording 7 Click OK Record Control Dialog Box Features On Windows a record control dialog box appears when you click the Record button in the toolbar On Linu
124. the guest operating system and choose Tools gt Assign Drive Letter 3 Choose Do not assign a drive letter for the partition and click OK The unmapping happens immediately VMware Inc 223 Workstation User s Manual 224 Unmap a Partition That Is Mapped to a Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 Host Corruption can occur if you allow the virtual machine to modify a physical disk partition that is simultaneously used as a mapped drive on the host To unmap a partition that is mapped to a Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 host 1 Choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Storage gt Disk Management 2 Select a partition and choose Action gt All Tasks gt Change Drive Letter and Paths 3 Click Remove Unmap a Partition That Is Mapped to a Windows Vista Host Corruption can occur if you allow the virtual machine to modify a physical disk partition that is simultaneously used as a mapped drive on the host To unmap a partition that is mapped to a Windows Vista host 1 Choose Start gt Control Panel Classic View gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Storage gt Disk Management 2 Right click a partition and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths 3 Click Remove Set Permissions on Linux Hosts If permissions are set correctly the physical disk configuration files in Workstation guard access This reliability provide
125. the installer is available in versions of Windows beginning with Windows XP and is available separately from Microsoft For additional details on using the Microsoft Windows Installer see the Microsoft Web site To install Workstation silently 1 VMware Inc Open a command prompt and enter the following command to silently extract the administrative installation image from the VMware Workstation installer setup exe a s v qn TARGETDIR lt install_temp_path gt setup exe is the name of the installer on the CD distribution If you are using a downloaded installer the filename is similar to VMwareWorkstation lt xxxx gt exe where lt xxxx gt is a series of numbers representing the version and build numbers lt install_temp_path gt is the full path to the folder where you want to store the administrative installation image Enter the following command to run a silent installation using msiexec and the administrative installation image you extracted in the previous step msiexec i lt install_temp_path gt VMware Workstation msi LINSTALLDIR lt path_to_program_directory gt ADDLOCAL ALL REMOVE lt feature_name feature_name gt qn Enter the command on one line To install Workstation in a location other than the default change the path that follows INSTALLDIR to specify the location Use the optional REMOVE lt property gt to skip installation of certain features The REMOVE lt property gt setting can take o
126. the reset button on a physical PC See Configure Power Off and Reset Options for a Virtual Machine on page 152 CAUTION When a team is active clicking the Power On Power Off Suspend Resume or Reset button affects all the virtual machines in that team Snapshot toolbar 68 VMware Inc VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Take Snapshot Allows you to save the state of a virtual machine in the same manner you might save a word processing document You can come back to that state if you make a mistake by using the Revert button See Using Snapshots on page 189 Revert Allows you to return a virtual machine to the parent state a state previously preserved by taking a snapshot See Using Snapshots on page 189 Manage Snapshots Opens the snapshot manager where you can view the virtual machine s existing snapshots revert to a snapshot take a new snapshot and make a clone from a snapshot See Snapshot Manager Overview on page 193 View toolbar Show or Hide Sidebar Toggles between showing and hiding the sidebar See View the Sidebar on page 72 Quick Switch Enlarges the Workstation console to cover the entire host monitor Console tabs are visible allowing you to switch between virtual machines and teams with a single click See Use Quick Switch Mode on page 158 Full Screen Enlarges the virtual machine display to cover the entire host monit
127. the resource signing policy See Encryption Settings on page 414 Setting Network Access Policies The network access feature uses a packet filtering firewall to enable you to specify which machines or subnets an ACE instance or its host system may access This means that you can for example configure the instance so that it is allowed to connect only to your VPN server which then controls access to other resources You can also customize the network access settings to filter on the basis of network addresses traffic direction protocol and ports You can set the following types of network access restriction definitions m Network zones m Network access for the ACE instance s host machine also known as host network access m Network access for your ACE instance s guest operating system also known as guest network access Network access policies can be dynamic if the ACE instance is associated with an ACE Management Server This means for example that you can quickly lock ACE instances out of all or part of your network to help combat the spread of a worm or virus without deploying updated packages See the VMware ACE Management Server User s Guide Before You Begin Setting Host Policies Use the following guidelines as you plan network access policies m A host machine for ACE instances can have only one host policy file If you try to install an ACE package with a host policy file on a machine that alread
128. the virtual machine settings editor click OK You can now start the virtual machine and automatically or manually connect USB devices and smart card readers Connecting USB Devices When a virtual machine is running its window is the active window If you plug a USB device into the host by default the device connects to the virtual machine instead of the host If you manually connect a USB device to a virtual machine by choosing VM gt Removable Devices Workstation retains the virtual machine s connection to the affected port on the host You can suspend or power off the virtual machine or unplug the device When you plug the device back in or resume the virtual machine Workstation reconnects the device Workstation retains the connection by writing an autoconnect entry to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file If Workstation is unable to reconnect to the device for example because you disconnect the device the device is removed and a message is displayed indicating that VMware Inc 337 Workstation User s Manual Workstation is unable to connect to the device You can connect manually to the device if it is still available Enable or Disable Automatic Connection of USB Devices You can disable the autoconnect feature if you do not want USB devices to automatically connect to the virtual machine when you power it on To enable or disable automatic connection of USB devices 1 Select the virtual machine T
129. then enable a specific shared folder This is because after you enable folder sharing for a virtual machine you cannot share particular folders unless the specific folders are also enabled On Windows if you disable shared folders after you power on a virtual machine and attempt to select a mapped drive to the shared folder you receive a message that the connection cannot be made VMware Inc 179 Workstation User s Manual 180 Enable Shared Folders for Virtual Machines Created By Other Users To enable shared folders for virtual machines created by other users 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Preferences 2 On the Workspace tab in the Virtual Machines section select Enable all shared folders by default This setting applies to shared folders on all virtual machines that are created by other users such as appliance developers Enable or Disable Shared Folders for Specific Virtual Machines To enable or disable shared folders for specific virtual machines 1 Select a virtual machine The virtual machine can be powered off or powered on 2 Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens 3 Click the Options tab and select Shared Folders 4 Use the check boxes in the Folder Sharing section to enable or disable shared folders and click OK Turn the virtual machine on and select Enabled until next power off or suspend to enable folder sharing temporarily until you shut down suspend or re
130. to install a particular component Valid Component Values Description Toolbox VMware Tools control panel and its utilities Excluding this feature prevents you from using VMware Tools in the guest operating system VMware does not recommend excluding this feature Drivers Includes the SVGA mouse BusLogic and vmxnet drivers m SVGA VMware SVGA driver Excluding this feature limits the display capabilities of your virtual machine m Mouse VMware mouse driver Excluding this feature decreases mouse performance in your virtual machine m Buslogic VMware BusLogic driver If your virtual machine is configured to use the LSI Logic driver you might want to remove this feature m VMXNet VMware vmxnet networking driver VMware Inc 109 Workstation User s Manual 110 Valid Component Values Description MemCtl VMware memory control driver Use this driver if you plan to use this virtual machine with VMware ESX Server Excluding this feature hinders the memory management capabilities of the virtual machine running on an VMware ESX Server system Hgfs VMware shared folders driver Use this driver if you plan to use this virtual machine with VMware Workstation Excluding this feature prevents you from sharing a folder between your virtual machine and the Workstation host For example to install everything but the shared folders driver type the following on the command line
131. to switch a single CD ROM device between a physical CD ROM and an image This also means that if you want to ship multiple images the user cannot switch between them Choose a reasonable amount of memory to allocate to the virtual machine If the user s host machine does not have enough physical memory to support the memory allocation VMware Player cannot power on the virtual machine Install VMware Tools in the virtual machine VMware Tools significantly improves the user s experience working with the virtual machine Choose a reasonable screen resolution for the guest A user is likely to find it easier to increase the resolution manually than to deal with a display that exceeds the user s physical screen size Some host operating systems do not support CD ROMs in non legacy mode To ensure that CD ROMs work properly in virtual machines that you intend to be distributed and played on VMware Player configure CD ROM devices in legacy mode See Legacy Emulation for DVD and CD Drives on page 228 Select an appropriate setting in VM gt Settings gt Options gt Snapshots gt When powering off Set this option to Just power off or Revert to snapshot VMware Player does not allow taking snapshots The option Revert to snapshot is useful if you want to distribute a demo that resets itself to a clean state when powered off VMware Inc Using Disks and Disk Drives This chapter provides information about how to configure virtu
132. topics to install Workstation m Upgrade Workstation on a Windows Host on page 53 m Upgrade Workstation on a Linux Host on page 55 Removing Workstation 2 or 3 to Install Workstation 6 x 52 To install Workstation 6 5 on a computer where Workstation 2 or 3 is already installed you must uninstall the old version before installing the new one See the Workstation 2 or 3 documentation for instructions about uninstalling On a Windows host the uninstaller might ask to remove licenses from the registry If there is any possibility that you might want to reinstall the old version do not allow the uninstaller to remove the licenses You can safely keep licenses for multiple VMware products on the computer at the same time On a Linux host the license remains in place You can safely leave the license where it is NOTE If you have Workstation version 2 or 3 virtual machines that you want to use with Workstation 6 5 upgrade the virtual machines to at least Workstation 4 before you install Workstation 6 5 After you uninstall the old version you can install Workstation 6 5 as described in the following topics VMware Inc Chapter 3 Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines Install Workstation on a Windows Host on page 41 Install Workstation on a Linux Host on page 45 Upgrade Workstation on a Windows Host You can upgrade from Workstation version 4 5 or 6 0 x to Workstation 6 5 by running the VMware
133. user can perform with a virtual machine or simplifying the user interface for inexperienced users n a classroom for example you can ensure that virtual machine configurations remain consistent from one class session to the next This chapter includes the following topics Locking Out Interface Features for Windows Hosts Only on page 351 Restricting the User Interface on page 352 Using Full Screen Switch Mode for Windows Hosts Only on page 355 Guest ACPI S1 Sleep on page 365 Locking Out Interface Features for Windows Hosts Only Administrative lockout is a global setting that affects all virtual machines for all users on a host computer It allows you to configure settings so that only a user who knows the password can perform the following tasks m Create new virtual machines m Edit virtual machine configurations m Edit network settings If no user has set administrative lockout preferences any user can set them and set a password for access to the administrative lockout features If administrative lockout preferences are already set by any user you must know the password to change the settings VMware Inc 351 Workstation User s Manual Set Administrative Lockout Preferences To set administrative lockout preferences 1 2 Choose Edit gt Preferences Click the Lockout tab and enter the password if prompted You are prompted for a password if a user has already set administrative locko
134. virtual machine vmx file or team vmtm file Click Open Choose File gt Add to Favorites 73 Workstation User s Manual Remove an Item from the Favorites List You can remove the name of a virtual machine or team from the Favorites list regardless of whether the virtual machine or team is open or powered on Removing the name does not affect the virtual machine s files or operation To remove an item from the Favorites list 1 Click a name in the Favorites list to select it 2 Choose File gt Remove from Favorites Rename an Item in the Favorites List Renaming an item in the Favorites list also renames the virtual machine or team To rename a Favorite list entry for a virtual machine or a team 1 Right click the Favorites item you want to rename 2 Choose Rename from the context menu 3 Type the new name for the item and press Enter Powered On List This list in the sidebar enables you to find out which virtual machines or teams are currently powered on Right click items in the Powered On list to display a menu of commands you can use for that virtual machine or team Check for Product Updates 74 Workstation automatically checks for product updates every three days If an update check fails on two consecutive attempts you receive a notification NOTE Checking for product updates works only if the host computer is connected to the Internet To check for product updates 1 Optional To check f
135. works Set this flag to 0 to turn it off 298 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking The udp Section timeout Number of seconds to keep the UDP mapping for the NAT network The dns Section This section is for Windows hosts only Linux does not use this section policy Policy to use for DNS forwarding Accepted values include m order Send one DNS request at a time in order of the name servers m rotate Send one DNS request at a time and rotate through the DNS servers m burst Send to three servers and wait for the first one to respond timeout Time in seconds before retrying a DNS request retries Number of retries before the NAT device gives up on a DNS request autodetect Flag to indicate whether the NAT device should detect the DNS servers available to the host nameserver1 IP address of a DNS server to use nameserver2 IP address of a DNS server to use nameserver3 IP address of a DNS server to use If autodetect is on and some name servers are specified the DNS servers specified in nameserver1 nameserver2 and nameserver3 are added before the list of detected DNS servers The netbios Section This section applies to Windows hosts only Linux does not use this section nbnsTimeout 2 Timeout in seconds for NBNS queries VMware Inc 299 Workstation User s Manual 300 nbnsRetries 3 Number of retries for each NBNS query nbdsTimeout 3 Timeout in seconds for NBDS q
136. 0 2 lt net gt 3 lt net gt 127 Static addresses 192 168 0 3 192 168 0 127 lt net gt 128 lt net gt 253 DHCP assigned 192 168 0 128 192 168 0 253 lt net gt 254 DHCP server 192 168 0 254 lt net gt 255 Broadcasting 192 168 0 255 Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host Only Network By design each host only network should be confined to the host machine on which it is set up That is no packets sent by virtual machines on this network should leak out to a physical network attached to the host Packet leakage can occur only if a machine actively forwards packets It is possible for the host machine or any virtual machine running on the host only network to be configured in a way that permits packet leakage Packet Leakage in Virtual Machines Virtual machines might leak packets if for example you use dial up networking support in a virtual machine and packet forwarding is enabled host only network traffic might leak out through the dial up connection To prevent the leakage be sure packet forwarding is disabled in your guest operating system Using Filtering If the host computer has multiple network adapters it might be intentionally configured to do IP forwarding If that is the case you do not want to disable 280 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking forwarding To avoid packet leakage you must enable a packet filtering facility and specify that packets from the host only network should no
137. 292 properties setting post debug event 488 setting pre debug event 488 setting virtual machine 487 publishing policy changes 431 Q quick switch mode 158 497 quiet mode install VMware Tools 108 quit VMware Player 449 R RAM amount required on host 27 available in virtual machine 33 raw disk See physical disk Real Media 310 real time clock requirement on Linux host 45 record replay feature 233 235 recording renaming 196 recordings deleting 197 VMware Inc REDO file 100 registration 21 registration of packages 430 reimage snapshois 398 remote connections to a virtual machine 167 remote domain join setting up 420 RemoteDisplay vnc keyMap property 325 removable device 392 removable drive for Pocket ACE 437 removing a virtual disk 221 devices from a virtual machine 166 Workstation 2 or 3 52 Repair option for VMware Tools installations 107 repairing VMware Tools installations 117 120 Replay Last Recording button 235 Replay toolbar 236 237 reporting problems to VMware 21 Reset button 153 resizing Linux guests 164 Solaris guests 164 resource signing policy 383 restricted user interface 352 resume defined 497 team 253 virtual machine 187 reverting to snapshot 196 routing between host only networks 290 host only 284 RPM installer for VMware Workstation 46 runtime preferences policy 395 VMware Inc Index S Samba and file sharing on a Linux host 305 modifyin
138. 3 Click the Options tab and select Snapshot Replay 4 Inthe When powering off section select Revert to snapshot Delete a Snapshot or a Recording Deleting a snapshot or recording does not affect other snapshots recordings or the current state of the virtual machine Use the snapshot manager to delete a snapshot V CAUTION Ifa snapshot is used to create a clone the snapshot becomes locked If you delete a locked snapshot the clones created from that snapshot no longer operate You cannot delete a snapshot if the associated virtual machine is designated as a template for cloning See Enable Template Mode for a Parent Virtual Machine of Linked Clones on page 203 To delete a snapshot or recording 1 Choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager 2 Do one of the following m To delete a single snapshot or recording select it and click Delete m To delete a snapshot or recording and all its children right click it and choose Delete Snapshot Recording and Children m To delete all snapshots and recordings right click a snapshot or recording choose Select All and click Delete 3 When prompted to confirm the deletion click OK and click Close in the snapshot manager Take or Revert to a Snapshot at Power Off You can set a virtual machine to automatically revert to a snapshot or to take a new snapshot whenever you power off the virtual machine VMware Inc 197 Workstation User s Manual To take a snapshot or re
139. 374 Setting Access Control Policies on page 374 Setting Host to Guest Data Script Policies on page 382 Setting Expiration Policies on page 382 Setting Copy Protection Policies on page 383 Setting Resource Signing Policies on page 383 Setting Network Access Policies on page 384 Setting Removable Devices Policies on page 392 Setting USB Device Policies on page 393 Setting Virtual Printer Policies on page 395 Setting Runtime Preferences Policies on page 395 Setting Snapshot Policies on page 398 Setting Administrator Mode Policies on page 399 Setting Hot Fix Policies for Standalone ACE Instances on page 400 Setting the Policy Update Frequency for Managed ACE Instances on page 400 Control Which ACE Instances Run on a Host on page 401 Writing Plug In Policy Scripts on page 402 Customizing the VMware Player Interface on Windows Hosts Only on page 407 373 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Benefits of Using Policies Policies give you control over many aspects of the ACE instances you distribute to end users For example you can set policies for the following security purposes m Permit the ACE instance to be used only by certain users and groups defined in an Active Directory domain m Specify which network resources end users may access from the virtual machine m Permit users to connect and disconnect certain removable
140. 5 Workstation User s Manual m Packet Loss Specification of the efficiency or faultiness of the link measured in the percentage of packets lost from the total number of packets transmitted To change the packet loss setting type a number into the field 4 Click OK to save your changes 5 Optional If virtual machines are currently running and you want them to adopt these configuration changes power on reset or resume the virtual machines as appropriate Add or Remove Network Adapters A physical PC must have a network adapter or NIC network interface controller for each physical network connection Similarly a virtual machine must be configured with a virtual network adapter for each LAN segment it interacts with To connect a virtual machine to multiple LAN segments simultaneously you must configure that virtual machine with multiple network adapters To add or remove network adapters 1 Power off the virtual machine that you want to add an adapter to or remove an adapter from 2 Select the team and choose Team gt Settings 3 On the Connections tab select the virtual machine and do one of the following m To add an adapter click Add Adapter The added adapter is displayed in the Adapters column By default the adapter connects to the bridged LAN segment but you can change the setting by clicking a check box for another segment If the segment you want to use is not listed create it See Create a Team LAN Segme
141. 5 operating system Workstation supports more than 100 snapshots for each linear process Use snapshots in a linear process for the following situations m You plan to make risky changes in a virtual machine such as by testing new software or examining a virus Before adding new untested code to a project take a snapshot You can always revert to a previous known working state of the project if the new code does not work as expected If the new code causes no problems you can take another snapshot of the virtual machine in its new state NOTE You can configure a virtual machine to take a snapshot any time it is powered off preserving a virtual audit trail as work progresses See Take or Revert to a Snapshot at Power Off on page 197 m You create a training course and want to save the state of the virtual machine in a snapshot at each lesson s starting point You can use the snapshots to skip lengthy computer preparation time You can also configure the virtual machine to revert to a snapshot any time it is powered off Each time a new class begins a lesson the previous student s work is discarded See Revert at Power Off on page 196 VMware Inc 189 Workstation User s Manual 190 Snapshots in a Process Tree You can save a number of sequences as branches from a single baseline as Figure 10 2 shows This strategy is often used in testing software You can take a snapshot before installing different version
142. 78 Determining Whether to Use DHCP or Statically Assign Addresses 278 Configuring the DHCP Server on a Linux Host 279 Configure the DHCP Server on a Windows Host 279 DHCP Conventions for Assigning IP Addresses 279 Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host Only Network 280 Packet Leakage in Virtual Machines 280 Using Filtering 280 Disable Packet Forwarding on Windows Hosts 281 Install Windows 2000 Administrative Tools on a Local Computer 281 Disable Packet Forwarding on Linux Host 282 Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine 282 Avoiding MAC Address Changes 283 Manually Assigning a MAC Address 283 Controlling Routing Information for a Host Only Network on Linux 284 Potential Issues with Host Only Networking on Linux 285 DHCPD on the Linux Host Does Not Work After Installing Workstation 285 DHCP and Dynamic Domain Name Service DDNS 285 Set Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host 286 Setting Up Two Separate Host Only Networks 286 Set up a Second Host Only Network on a Windows Host 287 Set up a Second Host Only Network on a Linux Host 287 Configuring the Host Only Virtual Machines 288 Set Up Using Configuration 1 or2 288 Set Up Using Configuration 3 289 Complete Configuring the Virtual Network Adapters 289 Set Up Routing Between Two Host Only Networks 290 Using Virtual Network Adapters in Promiscuous Mode ona Linux Host 292 Using NAT 292 How the NAT Device Uses the vmnet8 Virtual Switch 293 DHCP on the NAT Network 293
143. 9 Workstation User s Manual 90 host only network This approach can be useful if you need to set up an isolated virtual network m No connection You can always set up a connection after you finish creating the virtual machine See Common Networking Configurations on page 260 SCSI Adapter Types This option is available for custom configurations only An IDE and a SCSI adapter are installed in the virtual machine The IDE adapter is always ATAPI For the SCSI adapter you can choose BusLogic or LSI Logic The default for your guest operating system is already selected All guests except for Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and NetWare default to the BusLogic adapter For Windows Vista guests your only choice is LSI Logic NOTE The LSI Logic adapter has improved performance and works better with generic SCSI devices The LSI Logic adapter is also supported by ESX Server 2 0 and higher Your choice of SCSI adapter does not affect your decision to make your virtual disk an IDE or SCSI disk However some guest operating systems such as 32 bit Windows XP do not include a driver for the Buslogic or LSI Logic adapter You must download the driver from the LSI Logic Web site NOTE Drivers for a Mylex BusLogic compatible host bus adapter are not obvious on the LSI Logic Web site Search the support area for the numeric string in the model number For example search for 958 for BT K
144. ALSE All scripts run each time the end user starts VMware Player or resets the virtual machine Some might run more often For example an expiration script is run every 24 hours The sample scripts presented in Sample Policy Scripts on page 403 are installed with VMware Player in the following location C Program Files VMware VMware Player Samples The topics that follow show the format for the output that your scripts must write to the StdOut file to control various policies Sample Policy Scripts The following sections contain sample policy scripts Example of an Authentication Script This script example includes the basic elements required for any authentication script The purpose of an authentication script is to do one of the following VMware Inc 403 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 404 If the user is to be granted access to the virtual machine generate the data used to create the key for this user and send it as output The data must be unique for each user If access is granted the exit code is 0 If the user is to be denied access to the virtual machine the script exits with a non zero exit code This is a reference to the exit code not the output value The output of the script is hashed to create a key to encrypt and decrypt virtual machine files The first time this script is run the output is hashed to encrypt the virtual machine When a virtual machine is decrypted the script must return th
145. Automates joining ACE instances to a domain from a remote site See Set Upa Remote Domain Join on page 420 For managed ACE instances the instance customization process on the user s machine reports the success or failure of the process to the server The information is available in the instance view of Workstation Besides status the process also reports the MAC address and the new computer name Instance Customization Process During Packaging If you specify instance customization deployment settings the following events occur when you complete the New Package wizard 1 2 VMware Inc A snapshot of the ACE enabled virtual machine is taken and saved The ACE enabled virtual machine is powered on and all the required deployment tools and files including the appropriate Microsoft Sysprep tools are copied into the guest No visible indication shows the copying process See Download the Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Tools on page 417 The Microsoft deployment tools run inside the guest operating system to seal the guest and prepare for deployment 415 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual The guest operating system shuts down The ACE enabled virtual machine is cloned into the package directory The virtual machine files are copied into the directory encrypted if set to do so and divided to be put on media if set to do so The ACE enabled virtual machine reverts to the snapshot The snapshot is deleted The
146. CE 1 x and 2 x VMware Inc Chapter 3 Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines m A virtual machine created in Workstation 5 x is compatible with VMware Server 1 x and 2 x ESX Server 3 x VMware ACE 2 x and VMware Player 1 x and 2 x m A virtual machine created in Workstation 6 0 x is compatible with VMware Server 2 x VMware Fusion 1 1 VMware ACE 2 x and VMware Player 2 x You can run these virtual machines in Workstation 6 5 but you will not have the benefits of the new features of Workstation 6 5 For more information about compatibility between VMware products refer to the VMware Virtual Machine Mobility Planning Guide If you decide not to upgrade a virtual machine you still need to upgrade VMware Tools to the new version Follow the instructions for your guest operating system in VMware Tools Update Process on page 117 Do not remove the older version of VMware Tools before installing the new version Change the Version of the Virtual Machine If you created virtual machines with an earlier version of Workstation you must upgrade to the latest version to use the newest features For information about new features see the release notes If however you created Workstation 6 5 virtual machines but you now want to deploy those virtual machines to run on a different VMware product you might need to downgrade to a version that is compatible with that product The Change Version wizard enables you to do either of
147. Commands start Start a virtual machine vmx file or team Path to vmx or vmtm vmtm file file stop Stop a virtual machine vmx file or team Path to vmx or vmtm vmtm file Use the soft parameter to shut file hard soft down the guest Use the hard parameter to power it off as if you pressed the power button reset Reset a virtual machine vmx file or team Path to vmx or vmtm vmtm file Use the soft parameter to shut file hard soft down the guest before restarting Use the hard parameter to power it off as if you pressed the power button suspend Suspend a virtual machine vmx file or team Path to vmx or vmtm vmtm file Use the soft parameter to release the IP address on Windows guests or stop networking on UNIX guests before suspending file hard soft Snapshot Commands snapshot Create a snapshot of a virtual machine Path to vmx file snapshot name ListSnapshots List all snapshots in a virtual machine Path to vmx file deleteSnapshot Remove a snapshot from a virtual machine Path to vmx file snapshot name 458 VMware Inc Appendix A Workstation Command Line Reference Table A 2 vmrun Commands and Parameters Continued Command revertToSnapshot Description Go to a snapshot in a virtual machine If a snapshot has a unique name within a virtual machine revert to that snapshot by specifying the path to the virtual machine
148. Control Panel s Display Settings m Applications run more slowly than they would be in console view or full screen mode VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines Set Preferences for Unity Mode NOTE For this beta release setting preferences for unity mode is available on Linux hosts only You can configure access to a virtual machine s Start or Applications menu from a Windows Start menu or Linux Applications menu on your host s desktop You can also specify which color to make the border around applications that run in unity mode on your desktop To help distinguish between the application windows that belong to various virtual machines you can give them different colors For example you can set the applications for one virtual machine to have a blue border and set the applications for another virtual machine to have a yellow border To set preferences for unity mode 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Choose VM gt Settings 4 Click the Options tab and select Unity 5 Complete the settings panel and click OK Use the following information to determine which features to enable m Ifyou specify that you want to use a custom color click the colored rectangle to access the color chooser m If you enable a Start menu for a Windows virtual machine or Applications menu for a Linux virtual machine the menu appears above the host s Start or Applications menu
149. D or Solaris system when you select power operations in Workstation Sends a heartbeat to a VMware Server if you use the virtual machine with VMware Server On Windows guests grabs and releases the mouse cursor On Windows guests fits the guest s screen resolution to the host s screen resolution and the reverse Synchronizes the time in the guest operating system with the time in the host operating system Runs scripts that help automate guest operating system operations The scripts run when the virtual machine s power state changes The service starts when the guest operating system boots The VMware Tools service is not installed on NetWare operating systems Instead the vmwtool program is installed It synchronizes time and allows you to turn the CPU idler on or off VMware Device Drivers These drivers include SVGA display driver that provides high display resolution and significantly faster overall graphics performance The vmxnet networking driver for some guest operating systems BusLogic SCSI driver for some guest operating systems VMware mouse driver VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools m A kernel module for handling shared folders called hgfs sys on Windows and vmhgfs on Linux and Solaris m The Virtual Machine Communication Interface VMCI driver for creating client server applications that are optimized for fast and efficient communication between virtual machines VMwa
150. D ROM drive 2 Start VMware Workstation For instructions see Start Workstation on a Windows Host on page 61 Choose File gt New gt Virtual Machine On the Welcome page of the New Virtual Machine wizard click Next In the Select the Appropriate Configuration page select Typical and click Next N oO A Q On the Guest Operating system Installation page select Installer disc or Installer disc image file as appropriate and click Next 7 On the Easy Install Information page specify which disk drive or ISO image file to use the product key and a name registering the operating system Specifying a password is optional On Windows the password you enter here is used for an account with Administrator permissions On Windows 2000 the password is used for the Administrator account 8 Click Next 9 Complete the rest of the wizard pages as follows m Name the Virtual Machine page Click Next to accept the default VMware Inc 75 Workstation User s Manual 10 m Network Type page Select NAT and click Next For Windows guests it is recommended that you use NAT until you install security software such as antivirus software m Specify Disk Capacity page Click Finish The virtual machine is created and its name is added to the Favorites list In the Workstation window on the tab for the newly created virtual machine in the Commands section click Start this virtual machine On Linux hosts the command
151. Deployment Platform Settings 423 ACE Resources Directory 423 Review the Configuration of an ACE Enabled Virtual Machine 424 Use Preview Mode to Test Policy and Deployment Settings 425 Creating a Package 426 Overview of Package Creation and Validation 426 Turn Off the VMware Tools Check for Test Deployments 428 Prerequisites for Using the Packaging Wizards 428 Use the New Package Wizard 430 View Package Properties and Add Notes 431 Perform an End to End Deployment Test 431 Deploy Packages 433 Pocket ACE 435 Portable Device Requirements 435 Policies and Deployment Settings for Pocket ACE 436 Create a Pocket ACE Package 436 Deploying the ACE Package on a Portable Device 437 Deploy a Single Pocket ACE Package to a Device 438 Deploy Multiple Pocket ACE Packages to a Device 438 Run the Pocket ACE Instance 439 Installing ACE Instances 441 Installing an ACE Package on a Windows Host 441 Install an ACE Instance on a Single Windows Host 441 Install an ACE Package Silently on Multiple Windows Hosts 442 Uninstall VMware Player or an ACE instance from a Windows Host 444 Installing an ACE Package on a Linux Host 444 VMware Inc 15 Workstation User s Manual Manually Install VMware Player on a Linux Host 445 Install the ACE Instance on a Single Linux Host 446 Install an ACE Package Silently on Multiple Linux Hosts 446 Uninstall VMware Player or an ACE Instance from a Linux Host 447 Start and Use an ACE Instance 447 Install an ACE Client Licens
152. E instance 374 setting up ACE enabled virtual machine configuration 424 packages 426 settings editor virtual machine 499 share drag and drop 494 files on a Linux host with Samba 305 shared folder defined 497 enable and disable 178 mounting on Linux 182 on Linux and Solaris guests 182 permissions on Linux 182 using 177 viewing 181 Shared Folders tab VMware Tools 125 sharing virtual machines 209 shortcut desktop for Workstation 42 shortcuts keyboard 82 shrink virtual disks 125 218 virtual disks in Netware 126 Shrink tab VMware Tools 125 Sidebar panel 72 silent install 108 size disk 214 226 virtual disk 33 sleep ACPI 365 smart cards in virtual machines 342 SMP See virtual SMP snapshot and Workstation 4 virtual machines 198 as background activity 192 defined 498 deleting 193 197 disabling menu functions 352 excluding virtual disks from 192 files 100 linear process 189 parent 190 policies 398 power off options 197 process tree 190 renaming 193 196 restoring 196 reverting to 196 VMware Inc reverting to at power off 196 taking 195 team 257 using 189 snapshot manager 193 Solaris resizing guests 164 supported 32 bit guest operating systems 37 supported 64 bit guest operating systems 37 VMware Tools for 113 sound configuring 310 drivers for Windows 9x and NT guests 311 Sound Blaster 311 support in guest 35 spf file importing 139 starting applications in a vir
153. E instance to the current time cloneToVM Net clone configuration file Clone a regular virtual Path to recovery key file machine from an ACE enabled virtual machine Password Prompts All commands prompt for the administrative tools password See Setting Administrator Mode Policies on page 399 The setPassword command also prompts for the recovery key password for the private recovery key file anew ACE instance password and confirmation of that new password See Set a Recovery Key for Encrypted ACE Instances on page 380 Following is an example of the command vmware acetool setPassword myACE vmx recKey priv Expiration Dates The new expiration date can be passed as one of the following m A number of days from the current date m An absolute date in the format YYYY MM DD m A start date and an end date in the format YYYY MM DD YYYY MM DD m The special value never so that the instance never expires m The special value expired so that the instance expires immediately Following are examples of the command vmware acetool setExpirationDate myACE vmx 30 vmware acetool setExpirationDate myACE vmx 2007 06 16 vmware acetool setExpirationDate myACE vmx never vmware acetool allowCopy myACE vmx 30 VMware Inc 451 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 452 Respond to Hot Fix Requests If you enable the hot fix feature for standalone ACE instances users can easily request help to resolve the following
154. Eclipse installed in a non standard location Regarding the integrated virtual debuggers IDE plug ins the installer does the following m Ifyou have Visual Studio 2005 or Eclipse installed the installer installs an integrated virtual debugger If you don t want a plug in installed select the Custom setup and select not to install that component m If you have Eclipse installed in a different directory than C Eclipse or C Program Files Eclipse and you want to install the integrated virtual debugger for it select the Custom setup and select to install that component Do not attempt to install the Eclipse Virtual Debugger on 64 bit Windows hosts If you select Custom you can use the Space button to find out how much disk space is required for each component of the installation Click the Help button for a description of what each type of icon in the list means Optional On the Destination Folder page for typical setups or the Custom Setup page for custom setups if you do not want Workstation installed in the directory that is shown click Change and specify the directory you want If you specify a directory that does not exist the installer creates it for you CAUTION Do not install VMware Workstation on a network drive Click Next Windows and the Microsoft Installer limit the length of a path to a folder on a local drive to 255 characters For a path to a folder on a mapped or shared drive the limit is 240 c
155. Enterprise Server 10 VMware Tools Requirements Make sure that the version of VMware Tools on the guest operating system matches the version of Workstation 6 5 of which the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger is a component on the host VMware Inc 467 Workstation User s Manual 468 Update Requirements for Java and JRE You cannot have GCJ installed on the guest operating system The guest operating system must be running JRE 1 4 2 or higher If you are not using JRE 5 0 on the guest you must update the build settings in Eclipse to use a 1 4 x JRE on the guest To update the Eclipse build settings to use a 1 4 x JRE on the guest 1 Inthe Eclipse Package Explorer right click the topmost folder Project item and choose Properties 2 Inthe left pane of the Properties page select Java Compiler 3 Select Enable project specific settings and set the Java Development Kit JDK Compliance Compiler compliance level to 1 4 Installing PSAPI DLL on Windows NT On Windows NT you must install the psapi d11 library file to retrieve process status information so that the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger can attach to a process You can download psapi d11 from http msdn2 microsoft com en us library ms684884 aspx Disabling the Firewall on Linux Guest Systems You must disable the firewall on Linux guest operating systems The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger opens an available port searching from port 49152 for each deb
156. Hard Suspend or Soft Suspend You can configure the Suspend button or menu command to run a VMware Tools script in the guest operating system before doing the suspend operation This configuration is called a soft suspend VMware Inc 187 Workstation User s Manual 188 Before you begin make sure VMware Tools is installed in the guest operating system See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 On Windows guests when you do a soft suspend a script releases the IP address if the guest operating system is using DHCP On Linux FreeBSD and Solaris guests the script stops networking for the virtual machine When you use the Resume command on Windows guests a script gets a new IP address from DHCP On Linux FreeBSD and Solaris guests networking restarts To use hard suspend or soft suspend 1 Select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings from the Workstation menu bar The virtual machine can be either powered off or on The virtual machine settings editor opens 2 Click the Options tab and select Power 3 Inthe Power controls section specify a hard suspend Suspend or a soft suspend Suspend Guest operation 4 Click OK Suspend or Resume a Virtual Machine The suspend and resume features let you save the current state of your virtual machine and continue work later from the same state Before suspending a virtual machine specify whether to stop networking before suspending See Use Hard Suspend or
157. Information Captured by Snapshots A snapshot captures the entire state of the virtual machine at the time you take the snapshot This includes Memory state Contents of the virtual machine memory m Settings state Virtual machine settings m Disk state State of all the virtual disks The state of a physical disk or independent disk is not preserved when you take a snapshot Snapshots operate on individual virtual machines If you select a team of virtual machines and take a snapshot only the state of the active virtual machine is preserved See Summary and Console Views for Teams and Their Virtual Machines on page 249 When you revert to a snapshot you return the memory settings and virtual disks of the virtual machine to the state they were in when you took the snapshot To suspend power on or power off the virtual machine when you launch it be sure it is in that state when you take the snapshot Snapshot Conflicts Avoid taking a snapshot when applications in the virtual machine are communicating with other computers especially in production environments Suppose you take a snapshot while the virtual machine is downloading a file from a server on the network After you take the snapshot the virtual machine continues downloading the file communicating its progress to the server If you revert to the VMware Inc 191 Workstation User s Manual 192 snapshot communications between the virtual machine and
158. K to save your changes and close the virtual network editor 276 VMware Inc Advanced Virtual Networking This chapter provides detailed information on networking capabilities and specialized configurations This chapter includes the following advanced virtual networking topics Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration on page 277 Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host Only Network on page 280 Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine on page 282 Controlling Routing Information for a Host Only Network on Linux on page 284 Potential Issues with Host Only Networking on Linux on page 285 Set Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host on page 286 Setting Up Two Separate Host Only Networks on page 286 Set Up Routing Between Two Host Only Networks on page 290 Using Virtual Network Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host on page 292 Using NAT on page 292 Advanced NAT Configuration on page 295 Using Samba with Workstation on page 305 Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration The host and all virtual machines configured for host only networking are connected to the network through a virtual switch Typically all the parties on this network use the TCP IP protocol suite although other communication protocols can be used VMware Inc 277 Workstation User s Manual 278 A
159. M gt Install VMware Tools from the VMware Workstation menu bar Workstation temporarily connects the virtual machine s first virtual CD ROM drive to the correct ISO image file for the guest operating system VMware Inc 105 Workstation User s Manual You can use this menu command to either install or update VMware Tools The installation procedure varies depending on the operating system Manually Install VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System on page 106 Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest Within X by Using the RPM Installer on page 110 Install VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar or RPM Installer on page 111 Install VMware Tools in a Solaris Guest on page 113 Install VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Guest on page 114 Install VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine on page 116 Manually Install VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System VMware Tools is supported on all Windows guest operating systems Before you use the menu command to install VMware Tools perform the following tasks as necessary 106 If you are running Workstation on a Windows host and your virtual machine has only one CD ROM drive make sure the CD ROM drive is configured as an IDE or SCSI CD ROM drive It cannot be configured as a generic SCSI device If necessary add an IDE or SCSI CD ROM drive to the virtual machine See Adding DVD CD ROM and Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine
160. Machine on page 160 Report Battery Information in the Guest Operating System If you run a virtual machine on a laptop in full screen mode configure the option to report battery information in the guest This way you can determine when the battery is running low To report the status of the battery in the guest 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Choose VM gt Settings 4 Click the Options tab and select Power 5 Select the Report battery information to guest check box and click OK Use Quick Switch Mode In quick switch mode the virtual machine s screen is resized to fill the screen completely except for the space occupied by the tabs Before you begin make sure the guest operating system has VMware Tools installed See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 Quick switch mode is similar to full screen mode with the addition of tabs at the top of the screen for switching from one virtual machine to another The other difference is that you can use quick switch mode with virtual machines that are powered on or off To use quick switch mode 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Choose View gt Quick Switch 3 Optional To view the Workstation menu and toolbar while using quick switch mode move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen 4 Optional To resize a guest operating system s display so it fills as much of the screen as possible in quick swi
161. Mware Inc 101 Workstation User s Manual Table 5 1 Virtual Machine Files Continued Extension File Name Description vmsd lt vmname gt vmsd A centralized file for storing information and metadata about snapshots vmsn lt vmname gt Snapshot vmsn The snapshot state file which stores the running state of a virtual machine at the time you take that snapshot lt vmname gt Snapshot lt gt vmsn The file that stores the state of a snapshot vmss lt vmname gt vmss The suspended state file which stores the state of a suspended virtual machine Some earlier VMware products used the extension Std for suspended state files vmtm lt vmname gt vmtm The configuration file containing team data VMX lt vmname gt vmx The primary configuration file which stores settings chosen in the New Virtual Machine wizard or virtual machine settings editor If you created the virtual machine under an earlier version of VMware Workstation on a Linux host this file might have a Cfg extension vmxf lt vmname gt vmxf A supplemental configuration file for virtual machines that are in a team Note that the vmxf file remains if a virtual machine is removed from the team Other files might be present in the directory Some are present only while a virtual machine is running See Lock Files on page 214 102 VMware Inc Installing and Using VMware Tools This chapter discusses h
162. One of the advantages of teams is the ability to isolate virtual machines in private virtual networks called LAN segments This can be useful with multitier testing network performance analysis and situations where isolation and packet loss are important This section focuses on LAN segments For information about other aspects of networking see Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network on page 259 LAN Segment Requirements Regarding IP Addresses When you add an existing virtual machine to a team the virtual machine might be configured to expect an IP address from a DHCP server Unlike host only and NAT networking LAN segments have no DHCP server provided automatically by Workstation Each network client must have an IP address for TCP IP networking Therefore you must manually configure IP addressing for team virtual machines on a LAN segment Two choices are available DHCP Configure a DHCP server on your LAN segment to allocate IP addresses to your virtual machines m Static IP Configure a fixed IP address for each virtual machine on the LAN segment Create a Team LAN Segment The first step to creating a virtual network for a team is to add and name a LAN segment You can then configure connections to this segment 254 VMware Inc Chapter 14 Configuring Teams To create a team LAN segment 1 2 Select the team and choose Team gt Add gt LAN Segment Enter a name for the private network and click OK
163. Only 355 Create a Virtual Machine for Use in Full Screen Switch Mode 355 Moving a Virtual Machine to a User s Computer 356 Configuring Full Screen Switch Mode 356 Starting and Stopping Virtual Machines on a User s Computer 361 Guest ACPIS1 Sleep 365 Learning the Basics of ACE 367 Benefits of Using VMware ACE 367 Key Features of VMware ACE 368 VMware ACE Terminology 368 Network and Disk Space Requirements for the Administrative Workstation 369 Overview of Creating and Deploying ACE Packages 370 Overview of the ACE User Interface 371 Troubleshooting Users Problems 372 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player 373 Benefits of Using Policies 374 Set Policies for ACE Instances 374 Setting Access Control Policies 374 Create or Edit an Access Control Policy 375 VMware Inc 13 Workstation User s Manual 14 Activation Settings 376 Authentication Settings 377 Create and Deploy an Authentication Script 377 Include a Power On and Power Off Script in the Package 378 Set a Recovery Key for Encrypted ACE Instances 380 Set Activation Limit 381 Active Directory Password Change Proxying 381 Setting Host to Guest Data Script Policies 382 Setting Expiration Policies 382 Setting Copy Protection Policies 383 Setting Resource Signing Policies 383 Setting Network Access Policies 384 Before You Begin Setting Host Policies 384 Use the Network Access Wizard to Configure Network Access 385 Guidelines for Specifying Zone Conditions 386
164. PC Hardware on page 26 For information about installing a Linux operating system that has a VMware VMI Virtual Machine Interface enabled kernel in the guest operating system see Use a Paravirtualized Kernel in Linux Guests to Enhance Performance on page 98 To install a guest operating system manually 1 Start VMware Workstation 2 Do one of the following so that the virtual machine can access the installation media for the guest operating system m For a CD or DVD if necessary configure the virtual machine to use the host s CD ROM DVD drive and insert the operating system media in the drive In some host configurations the virtual machine cannot boot from the installation CD ROM You can work around that problem by creating an ISO image file from the installation CD ROM Use the virtual machine settings editor choose VM gt Settings to connect the virtual machine s CD drive to the ISO image file and power on the virtual machine m For an ISO image connect the CD ROM drive to an ISO image file of an installation disk To use a PXE server to install the guest operating system over a network connection you do not need the operating system installation media When you power on the virtual machine in the next step the virtual machine detects the PXE server VMware Inc 97 Workstation User s Manual 98 3 If the operating system spans several CDs follow these steps when you are prompted to insert the se
165. Program Option n Description Opens a new Workstation window B Windows hosts only Opens a new Workstation window but hides the sidebar and toolbars Only the tabs of open virtual machines are shown Using this option has the same effect as clicking the Workstation icon in the upper left corner of the Workstation window and choosing Hide Controls from the menu that appears Opens a virtual machine or team in a new tab in the existing Workstation window X Powers on the virtual machine when VMware Workstation starts This is equivalent to clicking the Power On button in the VMware Workstation toolbar X Powers on the virtual machine and switches the VMware Workstation window to full screen mode Linux hosts only Starts the program in quick switch mode Closes the virtual machine s tab when the virtual machine powers off If no other virtual machine is open it also exits Workstation This is useful when the guest operating system is capable of powering off the virtual machine Sets the specified variable to the specified value Any variable names and values that are valid in the configuration file may be specified on the command line with the s switch V Displays the product name version and build number lt path_to_virtual_machine gt lt path_to_virtual_team gt Launches a virtual machine using the specified virtual machine or team configuration file vmx or
166. Program Maintenance page deselect Visual Studio PlugIn in the Custom setup and continue through the installation wizard NOTE Deselecting Start in Tools gt Add In Manager does not prevent the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Add in from loading Clean Up After a Crash If you try to run the debugger locally after a debugging session in a virtual machine crashes or freezes you might get a Visual Studio error that indicates that the remote server cannot be found To reset Visual Studio and debug locally m In C choose Project Property Pages gt Debugging and set the Debugger to Launch property to Local Windows Debugger Set the Command property to either an empty string or the correct local path In C and VB choose Project Property Pages gt Debug Make sure Start project is selected and Use remote machine is deselected m Optional You can remove any shared folders that were used to run the debug command and the Remote Debug Monitor Shared folders are usually removed at the end of a debugging session but they might not be removed in the following circumstances m If the debugging session causes a crash VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger m If the virtual machine is powered off while the debugging session is still running These shared folders are typically reused when another debugging session is started so this cleanup is not required Managing Virtual M
167. S server to which you want to connect from this virtual machine 8 Click OK twice and click Close Now that the virtual machine has an IP address for a WINS server you can use NetLogon in the virtual machine to log on to a domain and access shares in that domain However your access is limited to shares of virtual machines that are on the same NAT network or are bridged on the same domain For example if the WINS server covers a domain with a domain controller it is possible to access that domain controller from the virtual machine and add the virtual machine to the domain You need to know the user ID and password of the Administrator user on the domain controller Sample Linux nat conf File Linux NAT configuration file host NAT gateway address ip 192 168 237 2 24 hostMAC 00 50 56 C0 00 08 4 enable configuration disabled by default for security reasons configport 33445 vmnet device if not specified on command line device vmnet8 Allow PORT EPRT FTP commands they need incoming TCP stream activeFTP 1 Allows the source to have any OUI Turn this one if you change the OUI in the MAC address of your virtual machines aLlowAnyOUI 1 udp 4 Timeout in seconds 0 no timeout default 60 real value might be up to 100 longer timeout 30 dns This section applies only to Windows Policy to use for DNS forwarding Accepted values include order rotate burst VMwar
168. SB 2 0 support See Enable the USB 2 0 Controller for a Virtual Machine on page 336 m Supports most devices including USB printers scanners PDAs hard disk drives memory card readers and digital cameras as well as streaming devices such as webcams speakers and microphones Keyboard 104 key Windows 95 98 enhanced Mouse and Drawing Tablets m PS 2 mouse m Serial tablets supported m USB tablets supported 34 VMware Inc Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements Ethernet Card m Up to 10 virtual Ethernet cards m AMD PCnet PCI II compatible m For 64 bit guests Intel Pro 1000 MT Server Adapter compatible Sound m Sound output and input m Emulates Creative Labs Sound Blaster AudioPCI Does not support MIDI input or game port controller joysticks Virtual Networking Support for 10 virtual Ethernet switches on Microsoft Windows host operating systems Support for 255 virtual Ethernet switches on Linux hosts Three switches are configured by default for bridged host only and NAT networking m Support for most Ethernet based protocols including TCP IP NetBEUI Microsoft Networking Samba Novell Netware and Network File System m Built in NAT supports client software using TCP IP FTP DNS HTTP and Telnet including VPN support for PPTP over NAT Supported Guest Operating Systems This section provides a simplified list of guest operating systems supported for virtual machines running in
169. SB keys flash memory drives Apple iPod mobile digital devices and portable hard drives ACE users attach these portable devices to x86 host computers and run their ACE instances with VMware Player VMware Inc 91 Workstation User s Manual On the Specify Disk Capacity page of the New Virtual Machine wizard you can use the Calculate optimal size for Pocket ACE button to determine what number to use in the Disk size text box Disk size refers only to the size of the virtual hard disk If you plan to create Pocket ACEs you must also consider the amount of disk space required for memory installers and other files related to virtual machine overhead To determine what number to enter in the Space available text box of the calculator plug the USB device in to your host computer and use the My Computer item to display its properties Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard 92 The New Virtual Machine wizard guides you through the key steps for setting up a new virtual machine helping you set various options and parameters Many of the settings you specify in the New Virtual Machine can be changed later if necessary You can use the virtual machine settings editor if you need to make changes after the initial creation From the menu bar choose VM gt Settings The New Virtual Machine wizard prompts you to choose between doing a typical or custom setup Before you begin determine what type of media to use for installing the operati
170. SCSI requires version 2 1 36 or higher of the SCSI Generic sg 0 driver which comes with kernel 2 2 14 and higher Also you must be logged on as a user who has permissions to use the device that is read and write permissions To add a generic SCSI device to a virtual machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard On the Hardware Type page select Generic SCSI Device and click Next On the Choose SCSI Device page from the drop down list of SCSI devices select the physical device to map If you do not see the device you want in the list you might need to add it manually as described in Troubleshoot Issues with Detecting Generic SCSI Devices on page 346 On Linux hosts if you type in the path to the SCSI device do not enter dev st0 or dev sr0 Use the Connect at power on check box to configure automatic connection behavior and click Finish On the Hardware tab in the Virtual device node section select the SCSI device identifier to use for the drive and click OK For example if you select SCSI 0 2 the guest operating system sees the drive as ID 2 on controller 0 345 Workstation User s Manual 346 Troubleshoot Issues with Detecting Generic SCSI Devices When you use the virtual machine settings editor to add a generic SCSI device to a virtua
171. SE Linux 10 SUSE Linux 9 3 SUSE Linux 9 2 SP1 SUSE Linux 9 1 stock 2 6 4 52 SUSE Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 21 99 SUSE Linux 8 2 stock 2 4 20 Ubuntu Linux 7 04 Ubuntu Linux 6 10 Ubuntu Linux 6 06 Ubuntu Linux 5 10 Ubuntu Linux 5 04 64 bit Mandriva Linux 2006 and 2007 Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4 0 Mandriva Corporate Server 4 0 Note On 64 bit Mandriva hosts some 32 bit compatibility libraries are required Specifically 32 bit glibc X11 and libXtst so are required Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 5 formerly called 4 0 Update 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 0 updates 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 0 updates 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 0 updates 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 0 stock 2 4 21 updates 2 4 21 15 6 7 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 0 stock 2 4 21 updates 2 4 21 15 6 7 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3 0 stock 2 4 21 updates 2 4 21 15 6 7 8 VMware Inc 31 Workstation User s Manual Table 1 2 Linux Host Operating Systems Processor Type 64 bit Operating System Edition SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP1 SP2 SP3 Listed versions are also supported with no service pack openSUSE 10 3 openSUSE 10 2 formerly known as SUSE Linux 10 2 SUSE Linux 10 1 SU
172. SE Linux 10 SUSE Linux 9 3 SUSE Linux 9 2 SP1 SUSE Linux 9 1 stock 2 6 4 52 Ubuntu Linux 7 04 Ubuntu Linux 6 10 Ubuntu Linux 6 06 Ubuntu Linux 5 10 Ubuntu Linux 5 04 Note On 64 bit Ubuntu 6 x hosts some 32 bit compatibility libraries are required Specifically 32 bit glibc and X11 are required See the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide for version details about these operating systems A Web browser is required for the Help system Virtual Machine Specifications 32 The following sections describe the devices supported by Workstation virtual machines Processor m Same processor as that on host computer m One virtual processor on a host with one or more logical processors m Two virtual processors two way virtual symmetric multiprocessing or Virtual SMP on a host with at least two logical processors The following are all considered to have two logical processors m A multiprocessor host with two or more physical CPUs m Asingle processor host with a multicore CPU m Asingle processor host with hyperthreading enabled VMware Inc Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements See Use Two Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing on page 348 Chip Set m Intel 440BX based motherboard m NS338 SIO m 82093AA IOAPIC BIOS PhoenixBIOS 4 0 Release 6 with VESA BIOS Memory Up to 8GB depending on host memory No maximum limit for the total available for all virtual m
173. Select Initialization Scripts and type the additional commands to run scripts in the guest operating system at the end of the Mini Setup process on the ACE user s machine For more information about commands see the Microsoft deployment tools documentation NOTE Specify the path to the batch file without using quotation marks Quotation marks are added automatically For more information see the Microsoft knowledge base article about troubleshooting Cmdlines text during an unattended setup Select Workgroup or Domain and complete the settings panel using the following information m Instance customization supports only IP addresses that DHCP servers provide Static IP addresses are not supported VMware Inc 6 Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances m To allow this ACE instance to join the domain from a location remote to the domain see Set Up a Remote Domain Join on page 420 Specify other types of deployment settings or click OK To create a package with these settings see Creating a Package on page 426 Placeholder Values to Use in Instance Customization Use placeholder values to construct machine specific names inside the guest operating system during the Mini Setup process Following are the available placeholders VMware Inc Logon_user or Logon_user n The user logged in to the host machine at the time the Microsoft Mini Setup process begins You can use Logon_user n where l
174. T 958 drivers See the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide for details about the driver and the guest operating system you plan to install in this virtual machine Normal and Independent Disk Modes The option to select normal or independent mode is available on Linux hosts for custom configurations only Normal mode means you want to include disks in any snapshots you take If you do not want data on the disk to be recorded when you take a snapshot of the virtual machine you can configure the disk to be independent If you configure the disk to be independent you can further specify whether changes you make to the disk are to persist or be discarded when you power off the virtual machine or restore it to a snapshot VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine Although for Windows hosts this configuration setting is not available in the New Virtual Machine wizard you can exclude virtual disks from snapshots by using the virtual machine settings editor See Exclude a Virtual Disk from Snapshots on page 192 Virtual Disks and Physical Disks This option is available for custom configurations only If you use a typical configuration a new virtual disk is created and used for the virtual machine Virtual disks are the best choice for most virtual machines They are easy to set up and can be moved to new locations on the same host computer or to different host computers Even for custom configurations you us
175. Test new multitier applications application updates and OS patches on a single PC m Host legacy applications within virtual machines facilitating OS migrations and eliminating the need to port legacy applications m Create a virtual library of end user configurations on a shared drive To facilitate computer based training and software demos m Package and deploy classroom material in virtual machines m Allow students to experiment with multiple operating systems applications and tools in secure isolated virtual machines m Configure virtual machines to undo all changes at shutdown m Demo complex or multitier configurations on a single laptop Overview of This Manual If you are a veteran user of VMware products see the Workstation Release Notes for a list of new features For upgrade instructions see Chapter 3 Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines on page 51 If you are new to VMware Workstation the first chapters of this manual through Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines on page 149 provide an introduction to using VMware Workstation guide you through the key steps for installing the software and putting it to work Later chapters provide in depth reference material for getting the most out of the sophisticated features of Workstation VMware Inc 25 Workstation User s Manual About the Host and Guest Computers The terms host and guest describe your physical and virtual mach
176. The total disk space required is about twice the combined sizes of all the components of the package The New Package wizard displays information about the amount of space needed and the locations where the space is needed Overview of Creating and Deploying ACE Packages 370 This section provides an overview of the tasks you must perform to create deploy and manage ACE instances 1 Create or clone a virtual machine that meets the requirements of your end users The procedures are the same as for any virtual machine For the network type VMware recommends using Network Address Translation NAT or bridged networking with an IP address a DHCP server provides Display the summary tab for the virtual machine and click Enable ACE Features in the Commands list ACE specific commands are added to the Commands list on the summary tab and the VM gt ACE menu is enabled Use the VM gt Settings menu to configure the virtual machine Optional Use the ACE Options settings panel to associate the virtual machine with an ACE Management Server You can then use the server to activate and track instances and make changes to policies instance customization data and other data for each ACE instance Because managed ACE instances check periodically for updates the updates are dynamic You do not need to create and deploy new update packages See the VMware ACE Management Server User s Guide Install a guest operating system VMware To
177. To log on to a Windows domain outside the virtual NAT network the virtual machine needs access to a WINS server for that domain You can connect the virtual machine to a WINS server in two ways m Connect to the WINS server provided by the DHCP server used on the NAT network if the WINS server is already set up on the host m To connect from the virtual machine to a WINS server not set up on the host you can manually enter the IP address of the WINS server This section provides instructions for both strategies Use NAT to Connect to an Existing WINS Server Set Up on the Host In order to use this method a WINS server in the same workgroup or domain must be set up on the host These steps use Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server as a guide The process is similar for Windows NT Windows Me and Windows 9x guests For Windows Vista the first couple of steps are different as noted in the specific steps below VMware Inc 301 Workstation User s Manual 302 To use NAT to connect to an existing WINS server set up on the host 1 In the virtual machine right click My Network Places and choose Properties For Windows Vista open the Network and Sharing Center and click the View Status link for the connection that uses the desired virtual network adapter In the Network Connections window right click the virtual network adapter and choose Properties For Windows Vista in the Connection Status window click Prope
178. Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player an installed ACE package and turn it into an ACE instance The authentication policy specifies who can run an ACE instance The settings you choose for these policies determine the default settings for package and encryption policies which protect the ACE packages and files in transit See Encryption Settings on page 414 The settings for these policies and how they are implemented vary depending on how your ACE instances are managed and optionally tracked The possible management setups are m Server with Active Directory ACE instances are managed by an ACE Management Server and the server is integrated with Active Directory An end user must enter Active Directory user credentials each time the ACE instance is run Only the user who activates the instance can authenticate run the instance The activation step is performed whenever an ACE package is installed m Server no Active Directory ACE instances are managed by an ACE Management Server and the server is not integrated with Active Directory The administrator chooses whether the end user must enter a password to activate the ACE instance and run it m Standalone ACE instances are standalone which means they are not managed by a server The administrator chooses whether the end user must enter a password to activate the ACE instance and run it If you use ACE Management Server the server also verifies the
179. Using the Ruleset Editor to Configure Host and Guest Access 389 Change NAT Settings 391 Understanding the Interaction of Host and Guest Access Filters With Tunneling Protocols 392 Updating a Network Access Policy 392 Setting Removable Devices Policies 392 Setting USB Device Policies 393 Access Levels for USB Devices 393 Set an Access Policy for USB Devices 393 Setting Virtual Printer Policies 395 Setting Runtime Preferences Policies 395 Runtime Preferences Settings 395 Enhanced Virtual Keyboard Settings 396 Exit Behavior Settings 397 Pocket ACE Cache Settings 397 Setting Snapshot Policies 398 Setting Administrator Mode Policies 399 Use Administrator Mode on an ACE Instance 399 Setting Hot Fix Policies for Standalone ACE Instances 400 Setting the Policy Update Frequency for Managed ACE Instances 400 Control Which ACE Instances Run ona Host 401 Run Multiple ACE Instances on an End User s Machine 402 Writing Plug In Policy Scripts 402 Sample Policy Scripts 403 Customizing the VMware Player Interface on Windows Hosts Only 407 Create and Specify a Skin File 407 VMware Inc Contents Customizing the VMware Player Icons 408 Customizing the Title Bar Text 408 Customizing the Removable Device Display 409 Shortcut Key Values 411 Sample Skin File 412 Deploying ACE Instances 413 Edit Deployment Settings 413 Encryption Settings 414 Package Lifetime Settings 414 Instance Customization on Windows Hosts Only 415 Custom EULA Settings 422
180. Virtual Keyboard for Windows Hosts 324 Hot Keys for Virtual Machines 325 Specify a Language Keyboard Map for VNC Clients 325 Keyboard Mapping on a Linux Host 327 Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine 335 Enable the USB 2 0 Controller for a Virtual Machine 336 Add a USB Controller to a Virtual Machine 337 Connecting USB Devices 337 USB Driver Installation on a Windows Host 338 Replace USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host 339 Access and Use a USB Device on a Linux Host 339 How Device Control Is Shared Between Host and Guest 340 12 VMware Inc Contents Disconnecting USB Devices from a Virtual Machine 341 Use Smart Cards with Virtual Machines 342 Support for Generic SCSI Devices 343 Installing Required Adapters or Drivers for Some Windows Guests 343 Avoiding Concurrent Access on Linux Hosts 344 Add a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine 345 Troubleshoot Issues with Detecting Generic SCSI Devices 346 Use Two Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing 348 Use a Virtual Machine That Originally Had More Than Two Virtual Processors 348 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts 351 Locking Out Interface Features for Windows Hosts Only 351 Set Administrative Lockout Preferences 352 Removing a Forgotten Password 352 Restricting the User Interface 352 Enable the Restricted User Interface 353 Return to a Snapshot with Restricted User Interface 353 Disable Restricted User Interface 354 Using Full Screen Switch Mode for Windows Hosts
181. Virtual Networking The host computer has a host virtual adapter on the NAT network identical to the host virtual adapter on the host only network This adapter allows the host and the virtual machines to communicate with each other for such purposes as file sharing The NAT device never forwards traffic from the host virtual adapter How the NAT Device Uses the vmnet8 Virtual Switch The NAT device is connected to the vmnet8 virtual switch Virtual machines connected to the NAT network also use the vmnet8 virtual switch The NAT device waits for packets coming from virtual machines on the vmnet8 virtual network When a packet arrives the NAT device translates the address of the virtual machine to that of the host before forwarding the packet to the external network When data arrives from the external network for the virtual machine on the private network the NAT device receives the data replaces the network address with that of the virtual machine and forwards the data to the virtual machine on the virtual network This translation occurs automatically and requires minimal configuration on the guest and the host DHCP on the NAT Network To make networking configuration easy a DHCP server is installed when you install Workstation Virtual machines running on the network with the NAT device can dynamically obtain their IP addresses by sending out DHCP requests The DHCP server on the NAT network which is also used in host only networking
182. Visual Studio Requirements and Recommendations 478 16 VMware Inc Contents Host System Requirements 479 Virtual Machine Requirements and Recommendations 479 Troubleshooting Tips 483 Managing Virtual Machine Configurations 485 Create Configurations 485 Setting Configuration Properties 486 Rename Configurations 489 Remove Configurations 489 Running and Debugging Applications in Virtual Machines 489 Start a Debugging Session in a Virtual Machine 490 Start a Session Without Debugging in a Virtual Machine 490 Attach the Debugger to a Process Running in a Virtual Machine 491 Glossary 493 Index 501 VMware Inc 17 Workstation User s Manual 18 VMware Inc Preface This preface provides information about the Workstation User s Manual and links to VMware technical support and educational resources This preface contains the following topics m About This Book on page 19 m Technical Support and Education Resources on page 20 About This Book This manual the Workstation User s Manual provides information about installing and using VMware Workstation 6 To view the most current version of the manual see the VMware Web site http www vmware com support pubs ws_pubs html Intended Audience This book is intended for anyone who needs to install upgrade or use VMware Workstation Workstation users typically include people who do software development and testing or work with multiple operating systems o
183. Ware guest partitonlist Displays a list of all disk partitions in the virtual disk and whether or not a partition can be shrunk shrink lt partition gt Shrinks the listed partitions If no partitions are specified all partitions in the virtual disk are shrunk The status of the shrink process appears at the bottom of the system console devicelist Lists each removable device in the virtual machine its device ID and whether the device is enabled or disabled Removable devices include the virtual network adapter CD ROM and floppy drives disabledevice lt device Disables the specified device or devices in the virtual machine If name gt no device is specified all removable devices in the virtual machine are disabled enabledevice lt device name gt Enables the specified device or devices in the virtual machine If no device is specified all removable devices in the virtual machine are enabled 126 VMware Inc vmwtool Command synctime on off Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools Description Lets you turn on or off synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host operating system By default time synchronization is turned off Use this command without any options to view the current time synchronization status idle on off Lets you turn the CPU idler on or off By default the idler is turned on The CPU idler program is included in VMware Tools for N
184. When you exit preview mode by default VMware Player suspends the virtual machine If necessary use Workstation to power off the virtual machine 3 Choose one of the following m To create anew Pocket ACE choose VM gt ACE gt New Pocket ACE Package m To create an update package for a Pocket ACE choose VM gt ACE gt New Package 4 Complete the wizard When you specify a location on the Name the Package page choose a location on the administrator machine Do not specify a location on the portable device You deploy the package to the device after the package is created The Completing the Pocket ACE Package Wizard page appears when the process is complete 5 Optional To deploy the package immediately select Deploy to a portable device now If you do not deploy the package immediately see Deploying the ACE Package ona Portable Device Deploying the ACE Package on a Portable Device You can deploy multiple ACE packages on a single portable device The only limitation on the number of packages is the amount of available space on the device You run the deploy exe file to deploy individual ACE instances or the bulkDeploy exe file to deploy ACE instances to multiple devices The wizard automatically preallocates disk space and splits the disk into 2GB segments The Pocket ACE instance is reencrypted during the deployment instead of after the user s first run of the instance For this reencryption the policy applied
185. Windows Vista 3 Install Workstation 6 5 See Install Workstation on a Windows Host on page 41 4 Optional To upgrade the virtual machines use the Change Version wizard in Workstation 6 5 See Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 Upgrade Workstation 5 on Windows Vista to Workstation 6 5 on Windows Vista Because Workstation 5 was only experimentally supported on Windows Vista VMware recommends manually uninstalling Workstation 5 x before installing Workstation 6 5 As part of the upgrade you must uninstall the Workstation 5 application but you do not need to uninstall Workstation 5 virtual machines VMware Inc Chapter 3 Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines To upgrade Workstation 5 on Windows Vista to Workstation 6 5 on Windows Vista 1 Go to Start gt Control Panel gt Programs gt Programs and Features gt Uninstall a program Select VMware Workstation and click Uninstall Install Workstation 6 5 See Install Workstation on a Windows Host on page 41 Optional To upgrade the virtual machines use the Change Version wizard in Workstation 6 5 See Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 Upgrade Workstation 6 x on Windows XP to Workstation 6 5 on Windows Vista Before you begin make sure that you have Windows XP with Service Pack 2 To upgrade Workstation 6 x from Windows XP to Windows Vista 1 Log in as the Administrator user or as a user who i
186. Workstation User s Manual 202 m Aclones MAC address and UUID are different from those of the parent virtual machine Make a clone when you need a copy of a virtual machine for separate use Make a snapshot rather than a clone if you want to save the current state of the virtual machine so that you can revert to that state Although a clone is a separate virtual machine if the clone is a linked clone it shares virtual disks with the parent virtual machine See Types of Clones on page 202 Uses of a Clone Installing a guest operating system and applications can be time consuming With clones you can make many copies of a virtual machine from a single installation and configuration process Clones are useful when you must deploy many identical virtual machines to a group For example m An MIS department can clone a virtual machine for each employee with a suite of preconfigured office applications m A virtual machine can be configured with a complete development environment and then cloned repeatedly as a baseline configuration for software testing m A teacher can clone a virtual machine for each student with all the lessons and labs required for the term With clones you can make complete copies of a virtual machine without browsing a host file system or worrying if you have located all the configuration files Types of Clones Two types of clones are available full and linked Full Clones A full clone is
187. Workstation User s Manual Workstation 6 5 E vmware Workstation User s Manual Workstation User s Manual Revision 20080111 Item WS6 ENG Q207 296 You can find the most up to date technical documentation on our Web site at http www vmware com support The VMware Web site also provides the latest product updates If you have comments about this documentation submit your feedback to docfeedback vmware com 1998 2008 VMware Inc All rights reserved Protected by one or more U S Patent Nos 6 397 242 6 496 847 6 704 925 6 711 672 6 725 289 6 735 601 6 785 886 6 789 156 6 795 966 6 880 022 6 944 699 6 961 806 6 961 941 7 069 413 7 082 598 7 089 377 7 111 086 7 111 145 7 117 481 7 149 843 7 155 558 7 222 221 7 260 815 7 260 820 7 269 683 7 275 136 7 277 998 7 277 999 7 278 030 7 281 102 and 7 290 253 patents pending VMware the VMware boxes logo and design Virtual SMP and VMotion are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware Inc in the United States and or other jurisdictions All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies VMware Inc 3401 Hillview Ave Palo Alto CA 94304 www vmware com 2 VMware Inc Contents Preface 19 Introduction and System Requirements 24 VMware Inc Product Benefits 24 Overview of This Manual 25 About the Host and Guest Computers 26 Host System Requirements 26 PC Hardware 26 Memory 27 Displ
188. a Web server to send Web pages to computers on the external network This configuration has the advantage of protecting the guest operating system from being compromised before you have a chance to install security software For example it is often recommended that for Windows guest operating systems you use NAT until you install antivirus software How to Set Up NAT A NAT connection is set up automatically if you select the Custom setup in the New Virtual Machine wizard and select Use network address translation Set Up Requirements for IP Addresses If you use NAT your virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network Instead a separate private network is set up on the host computer Your virtual machine gets an address on that network from the VMware virtual DHCP server The VMware NAT device passes network data between one or more virtual machines and the external network It identifies incoming data packets intended for each virtual machine and sends them to the correct destination Host Only Networking Host only networking creates a network that is completely contained within the host computer Host only networking provides a network connection between the virtual VMware Inc 263 Workstation User s Manual 264 machine and the host computer using a virtual network adapter that is visible to the host operating system This approach can be useful if you need to set up an isolated virtual network In thi
189. a complete and independent copy of a virtual machine It shares nothing with the parent virtual machine after the cloning operation Ongoing operation of a full clone is entirely separate from the parent virtual machine Because a full clone does not share virtual disks with the parent virtual machine full clones generally perform better than linked clones However full clones take longer to create than linked clones Creating a full clone can take several minutes if the files involved are large VMware Inc Chapter 11 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines The full clone duplicates only the state of the virtual machine at the instant of the cloning operation Thus the full clone does not have access to any snapshots that might exist of the parent virtual machine Linked Clones A linked clone is a copy of a virtual machine that shares virtual disks with the parent virtual machine in an ongoing manner A linked clone is made from a snapshot of the parent See Scenarios for Using Multiple Snapshots on page 189 This conserves disk space and allows multiple virtual machines to use the same software installation V CAUTION You cannot delete the linked clone snapshot without destroying the linked clone It is safe to delete this snapshot only if you deleted the clone depending on it All files available on the parent at the moment of the snapshot continue to remain available to the linked clone Ongoing changes to the virtu
190. a folder shared between the host and guest Path to vmx file Share name ListProcessesInGuest List the processes running in the guest operating system Path to vmx file VMware Inc 459 Workstation User s Manual Table A 2 vmrun Commands and Parameters Continued Command Description Parameters killProcessInGuest Kill the specified process on the guest operating Path to vmx file system Process ID runScriptInGuest Run a script in the guest operating system Path to vmx file Interpreter path script text deleteFileInGuest Delete a file from the guest operating system Path to vmx file Path to file on the guest createDirectoryInGue st Create a directory in the guest operating system Path to vmx file Directory path on the guest deleteDirectoryInGue st Delete a directory from the guest operating system Path to vmx file Directory path on the guest ListDirectoryInGuest List the contents of a directory in the guest Path to vmx file operating system Directory path on the guest copyFileFromHostToGu Copy a file from the host to the guest operating Path to vmx file est system File path on the host File path on the guest copyFileFromGuestToH Copy a file from the guest operating system to Path to vmx file ost the host File path on the guest File path on the host renameFileInGuest Rename a file in t
191. able device The Pocket ACE runs primarily from the host cache although it occasionally reads from the parent disk on the portable device The ACE instance does not write to the parent disk To run a pocket ACE instance 1 Plug the portable device into the host computer 2 If the host system s autorun configuration is not set to start the ACE instance automatically do one of the following m On Windows hosts navigate to the removable device and run the Pocket ACE Usually starting the Pocket ACE manually is not necessary The autorun program is included in the package and checks whether VMware Player is installed If not VMware Player is installed automatically m On Linux systems install VMware Player from the Player directory on the USB drive For example if the USB drive is mounted at media USBFLASH navigate to media USBFLASH plLayer VMware pLayer i386 tar gz m Install VMware Player as described in Manually Install VMware Player on a Linux Host on page 445 VMware Inc 439 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual m Use VMware Player to open the vmx file and start the ACE instance see Install the ACE Instance on a Single Linux Host on page 446 440 VMware Inc Installing ACE Instances This chapter includes the following topics Installing an ACE Package on a Windows Host on page 441 Installing an ACE Package on a Linux Host on page 444 Start and Use an ACE Instance on pag
192. achine Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users If you want other users to be able to access your virtual machines consider the following points VMware Inc Only one user can run a virtual machine at a time Other users can also share a virtual machine by making a linked clone of it A linked clone is a copy that uses the same virtual disks as the parent virtual machine it was copied from See Cloning a Virtual Machine on page 201 On Windows hosts relocate the virtual machine files to a directory that is accessible to all appropriate users The default location for a Windows host is not typically accessible to other users m On Windows XP C Documents and Settings lt user_name gt My Documents My Virtual Machines m On Windows Vista C Users lt user_name gt Documents Virtual Machines When you configure the virtual machine in the New Virtual Machine wizard you can specify a location for the virtual machine elsewhere on your system or on a network volume On Linux hosts set permissions for the virtual machine files appropriately 209 Workstation User s Manual Permissions settings are especially important for the configuration file vmx and virtual disks vmdk For example if you want users to run a virtual machine but not be able to modify its configuration do not make the configuration file writable Sharing Virtual Machines with VMware Player 210 VMware Player is a free application that opens
193. achine Configurations Before you can start or debug applications in a virtual machine you must create or modify virtual machine configurations and set configuration properties The default configuration initially includes the default values for all properties that have them Choose VMware gt Options to manage configurations You can create rename and remove configurations as described in this section and you can set and modify configuration properties for existing configurations as described in Setting Configuration Properties on page 486 The configuration selected in the Configuration drop down menu is the one being edited in the configuration pages while the configuration selected in the Active Configuration drop down menu is the one used when you choose VMware gt Start or VMware gt Start Without Debugging Create Configurations To create a new configuration 1 Choose VMware gt Options 2 Click the New icon next to the Configuration drop down menu 3 In the New Configuration page type a name for the new configuration 4 Choose a configuration to copy settings from 5 The default selection is lt Default gt which includes the default values for all properties that have them 6 Click OK The new configuration is created and listed as the active configuration in the Configuration and Active Configuration drop down menus You can start editing the configuration properties VMware Inc 485 Workstation User s
194. achines Graphics VGA and SVGA support IDE Drives m Up to four devices disks CD ROM or DVD ROM DVD drives can be used to read data DVD ROM discs DVD video is not supported m Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks m IDE virtual disks up to 950GB m CD ROM can be a physical device or an ISO image file SCSI Devices m Up to 60 devices m SCSI virtual disks up to 950GB m Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks m Generic SCSI support allows devices to be used without need for drivers in the host operating system Works with scanners CD ROM DVD ROM tape drives and other SCSI devices m LSI Logic LSI53C10xx Ultra320 SCSI I O controller VMware Inc 33 Workstation User s Manual m Mylex BusLogic BT 958 compatible host bus adapter requires add on driver from VMware for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Floppy Drives m Up to two 1 44MB floppy devices m Physical drives or floppy image files Serial COM Ports m Up to four serial COM ports Output to serial ports Windows or Linux files or named pipes Parallel LPT Ports m Up to three bidirectional parallel LPT ports Output to parallel ports or host operating system files USB ports m USB 1 1 UHCI controller with a transparent virtual hub so that more than two devices can be connected m USB 2 0 EHCI controller that supports up to six devices You need use the virtual machine settings editor to enable U
195. ackground see Closing Virtual Machines and Exiting Workstation on page 81 To shut down a virtual machine 1 Inthe guest system shut down the operating system as you would if you were using a physical machine rather than a virtual machine For example in Windows XP click Start gt Shut Down 2 Inthe Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Power Options gt Power Off to turn off the virtual machine If you use the Power Off command before you shut down the guest operating system the virtual machine is powered off abruptly The effect is like using the power button ona physical machine You can however configure the Power Off button in the toolbar to shut down the operating system before powering off See Configure Power Off and Reset Options for a Virtual Machine on page 152 Configure Power Off and Reset Options for a Virtual Machine You can configure the Power Off toolbar button to power off the virtual machine abruptly or to send a signal that gracefully shuts down the guest operating system Before you begin make sure VMware Tools is installed in the guest operating system To perform a graceful shutdown the VMware Tools service component issues a Shutdown Guest command and runs a script to shut down cleanly v CAUTION Powering off abruptly works the same way a power switch works on a power supply The power is cut off with no consideration for work in progress If a virtual machine is writing to disk when it r
196. age space and are easier to move to a new location However it takes longer to write data to a disk configured in this way You can also configure virtual disks so that all of the disk space is allocated when the virtual disk is created This approach provides enhanced performance and is useful if you are running performance sensitive applications in the virtual machine Regardless of whether you allocate all disk space in advance you can configure the virtual disk to use a set of files limited to 2GB per file Use this option if you plan to move the virtual disk to a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB Lock Files A running virtual machine creates lock files to prevent consistency problems on virtual disks Without locks multiple virtual machines might read and write to the disk causing data corruption VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives Lock files are created in subdirectories with a 1ck suffix The locking subdirectories reside in the same directory as the virtual machine s vmdk files A locking subdirectory and lock file are created for vmdk files vmx files and vmem files As of the Workstation 6 release a unified locking method is used on all host operating systems so files shared between them are fully protected For example if one user on a Linux host tries to power on a virtual machine that is already powered on by another user with a Windows host the lock files prevent the s
197. ains the configuration of the original virtual machine or image The migration process can be nondestructive so you can continue to use the original virtual machine with Microsoft Virtual PC or the original system image with Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery However to run anew VMware virtual machine on the same network as the original Virtual PC virtual machine you must modify the network name and IP address on one of the virtual machines so the original and new virtual machines can coexist For Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines you have the option of sharing the source virtual hard disk vhd files This means that the VMware virtual machine can write directly to the original vhd files instead of VMware virtual hard disk vmdk files VMware Inc Chapter 7 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine VMware Converter Compared to the Conversion Wizard in Workstation Workstation 6 5 incorporates the Conversion wizard from the VMware Converter product VMware Converter is a separate downloadable application for Windows hosts that provides an easy to use scalable solution for migrations of machines both physical to virtual and virtual to virtual In addition to the Conversion wizard VMware Converter provides a task manager that lets you schedule migrations of many machines The Conversion wizard included with Workstation lets you create VMware virtual machines fro
198. al disk of the parent do not affect the linked clone and changes to the disk of the linked clone do not affect the parent A linked clone must have access to the parent Without access to the parent you cannot use a linked clone You can make a linked clone from a linked clone but keep in mind that the performance of the linked clone degrades When possible make a linked clone of the parent virtual machine If you make a full clone from a linked clone however the full clone is an independent virtual machine that does not require access to the linked clone or its ancestors Linked clones are created swiftly so you can easily create a unique virtual machine for each task You can also easily share a virtual machine with other users by storing the virtual machine on your local network where other users can quickly make a linked clone This facilitates collaboration For example a support team can reproduce a bug in a virtual machine and an engineer can quickly make a linked clone of that virtual machine to work on the bug Creating Clones If you decide to create a linked clone and you want to prevent the parent virtual machine from being accidentally deleted enable template mode before using the Clone Virtual Machine wizard Enable Template Mode for a Parent Virtual Machine of Linked Clones To prevent anyone from deleting the parent virtual machine for a linked clone designate the parent as a template When template mode is enabled a v
199. al hard disk storage to best meet your needs This chapter includes the following topics m Virtual Machine Disk Storage on page 213 m Virtual Disk Maintenance Tasks on page 217 m Adding Virtual and Physical Disks to a Virtual Machine on page 219 m Adding DVD CD ROM and Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine on page 227 m Using VMware Virtual Disk Manager on page 231 m Using Dual Boot Computers with Virtual Machines on page 231 m Legacy Virtual Disks on page 231 To map an existing virtual disk drive to a Windows host machine rather than adding it to a virtual machine see Using a Mapped Drive for Windows Only on page 184 Virtual Machine Disk Storage Like a physical computer a VMware Workstation virtual machine stores its operating system programs and data files on one or more hard disks Unlike a physical computer Workstation provides ways to undo changes to the virtual machine s hard disk The New Virtual Machine wizard creates a virtual machine with one disk drive Use the virtual machine settings editor choose VM gt Settings to add more disk drives to your virtual machine to remove disk drives from your virtual machine and to change certain settings for the existing disk drives This section describes the choices you can make in setting up hard disk storage for a virtual machine VMware Inc 213 Workstation User s Manual 214 Benefits of Using Virtual Disks In most
200. al machine you can do either of the following Map the disk to the host See Using a Mapped Drive for Windows Only on page 184 Add the disk to another virtual machine See Add an Existing Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine on page 220 Using Physical Disks in a Virtual Machine You can install a guest operating system directly on an unused physical disk or unused partition However an operating system installed in this setting probably cannot boot outside of the virtual machine even though the data is available to the host For VMware Inc 221 Workstation User s Manual 222 information about using an operating system that can also boot outside of the virtual machine see the VMware s Dual Boot Computers and Virtual Machines technical note Physical disks are an advanced feature Do not configure them unless you are an expert user To use a physical disk in a virtual machine you can add the physical disk to an existing virtual machine or create a virtual machine and specify which physical disk the virtual machine uses Prerequisites for Using a Physical Disk Before you run the New Virtual Machine wizard or use the virtual machine settings editor to add a physical raw disk perform the following tasks Because the virtual machine and guest operating system access a physical disk partition while the host continues to run its operating system verify that the partition is not mounted by the host or in use by ano
201. al machine or system image with the exception of some hardware dependent drivers and sometimes the mapped drive letters The following settings from the source computer remain identical m Operating system configuration computer name security ID user accounts profiles and preferences and so forth m Applications and data files m Each disk partition s volume serial number Because the target and the source virtual machines or system images have the same identities name SID and so on running both on the same network can result in conflicts If you plan to redeploy the source virtual machine or system image do not run both the source and target images or virtual machines on the same network at the same time Alternatively you can resolve the duplicate ID problem by using additional tools such as the Windows 2000 System Preparation Tool Sysprep For example if you use the Conversion to test the viability of running a Virtual PC virtual machine as a VMware VMware Inc Chapter 7 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine virtual machine without first decommissioning the original Virtual PC machine you need to resolve the duplicate ID problem Migration Issues Caused by Hardware Changes Most migrated applications function correctly in the VMware virtual machine because their configuration and data files have the same location as the source virtual machine However applications might not w
202. al machines Acronis True Image tib files and StorageCraft files spf files Creating a linked clone of a VMware virtual machine requires that the virtual hardware version of the destination machine not be higher than the hardware version of the source Vv CAUTION For linked clones the virtual machine created by the wizard becomes corrupted if the source is modified after the import This is true for linked clones imported from Virtual PC and Virtual Server machines and from Symantec backup images In the case of Virtual PC and Virtual Server source virtual machines powering them on in Virtual PC or Virtual Server modifies them Supported Destinations The Conversion wizard can create virtual machines that are compatible with the following products m Workstation 4 x 5 x and 6 0 x for this beta release Workstation 6 5 virtual machines are not yet supported m VMware Fusion 1 x m VMware Player 1 x and 2 x m ESX Server 3 x This destination is not supported if you are importing a remote physical machine m ESX Server 2 5 x This destination is supported only by importing through a VirtualCenter 2 x server that manages the 2 5 x ESX Server m GSX Server 3 x m VMware Server 1 x m VirtualCenter 2 x NOTE Workstation 4 virtual machines are compatible with VMware GSX Server 3 0 ESX Server 2 x and ACE 1 x Designating a Destination for a Virtual Machine 144 Keep thee points in mind when using the Conve
203. alog box specify the path to the script and enter the command for running the script If you are enabling a power on or power off script after you already deployed packages provide an update package or a custom package with the ACE Resources directory When the script runs on the user s system the script prints TRUE for power on or FALSE for power off It must also conform to standard script exit code rules The following is an example of a power on script HHH HR RH HHH HH HR HH HHH HHH HK VMware Inc VMware Sample Script Sample script for ACE power on hook Description This sample script implements a power on hook for ACE This can be used in addition to authentication to control the circumstances under which an ACE is allowed to run This script assumes that the username is defined in the environment variable TEST_USERNAME a ficticious environment variable used for this sample and returns TRUE if the useris allowed to run and FALSE otherwise Input to script None Returns TRUE if username is on white list FALSE if username is not on white list or is undefined 379 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 380 4 Expected output 4 One of the strings TRUE or FALSE my white_list C alan bob mary sonia chris my username ENV TEST_USERNAME if defined username print FALSE exit 0 my GgrepNames grep username Gwhite_list if grepNames
204. ameters gt Usage Deployment password Required when the package is password protected Path to the VMX file on the host system Use this parameter if you are performing a bulk deployment from outside of the Pocket ACE package Parameter to turn off reporting the progress of the bulk deployment Tests the bulk deployment without actually performing it If the test fails the bulk deployment fails If the test is successful 0 is returned If it fails a negative number is returned 438 VMware Inc Chapter 23 Pocket ACE For example bulkDeploy exe C p password s C pocketACEPackage VM packagedVMX vmx q t Run the Pocket ACE Instance After you deploy a Pocket ACE package to a removable device running it usually involves only plugging it in Before you begin make sure that the host computer s clock is set to the correct time If you move a Pocket ACE from one host computer to another and the clock of the second host is earlier than the clock of the first the Pocket ACE does not run When the ACE instance runs its disk and checkpoint caches are initialized If the Pocket ACE has a session on this host that session continues Otherwise a new session is started The checkpoint state and virtual disk are cached on the host during use and synchronized back to the portable device later The checkpoint state and virtual disk are protected with the same encryption level used for the ACE instance on the port
205. an adapter from the drop down list beside the name of the virtual switch you want to use You can create a custom bridged network on virtual switches vmnet2 to vmnet7 On Windows you can also use vmnet9 On Linux you can also use vmnet10 through vmnet255 Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual network editor Configure vmnet0O Automatic Bridged Networking on a Linux Host To configure vmnet0O automatic bridged networking on a Linux host 1 VMware Inc On the Linux host do one of the following m From the desktop choose Applications gt System Tools gt VMware Network Configuration or the equivalent menu path for your version of Linux m Open a terminal window and enter the following command usr bin vmware netcfg When prompted enter the administrator password The virtual network editor appears By default vmnet0 is set to use automatic bridging mode and bridges to one of the active network adapters on the host computer If the table in the network editor does not display a row for vmnet0 click Add Network and complete the Add Virtual Network dialog box 271 Workstation User s Manual 4 Select the vmnet0 row in the table and verify that the Bridged radio button is selected 5 Do one of the following m Ifyou want to use automatic bridging click Automatic Settings and complete the dialog box If you select more than one check box the virtual machine bridges to the first available host net
206. and PCI slots To use a host s smart card reader in a virtual machine make sure the following prerequisites are satisfied m On Windows hosts start the service called SCardSvr exe if it is not already running m On Linux hosts make sure the Libpcsclite library is installed Most recent Linux distributions include this library m Make sure the virtual machine has a USB controller A USB controller is required regardless of whether the smart card reader itself is a USB device By default USB controllers are included when you create a virtual machine If you removed the USB controller you must add it back See Add a USB Controller to a Virtual Machine on page 337 To use smart cards with virtual machines 1 Connect the smart card reader to the host machine 2 Start the virtual machine 3 To connect the smart card reader to a virtual machine use the VM gt Removable Devices menu The smart card reader is now shared by the host and the virtual machine The smart card reader can also be shared by multiple virtual machines VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Support for Generic SCSI Devices Generic SCSI gives the guest operating system direct access to SCSI devices connected to the host such as scanners tape drives and other data storage devices Using the SCSI generic driver Workstation allows a virtual machine to run any SCSI device that is supported by the guest operating system In theory generic SCSI
207. and plays virtual machines created with other VMware products On Windows hosts Player also opens and plays Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery and system images VMware Player is included with Workstation versions 5 5 and later Standalone Player is also freely available for download at http www vmware com products player VMware Player makes your VMware virtual machines accessible to colleagues partners customers and clients who do not own other VMware products NOTE Use of VMware Player is subject to the VMware Player End User License terms and no technical support is provided by VMware for VMware Player For self help resources see the VMware Player FAQ at www vmware com products player faqs html Also check the VMware Player Discussion Forum on the VMware VMTN Web site at http communities vmware com community vmtn desktop player The forum is a site where VMTN members exchange information questions and comments regarding VMware products services and product support issues Start and Exit VMware Player VMware Player is included in the Workstation distribution When you install Workstation the application file vmplayer exe on Windows or vmp Layer on Linux is stored with the rest of your Workstation program files To start and exit VMware Player 1 Open VMware Player either from the graphical user interface GUI or from the command line m Fr
208. and teams of virtual machines for quick access You can also see which virtual machines are powered on Right click context menus enable you to perform many operations on a selected virtual machine An additional section of the sidebar displays ACE Management Servers Status bar This area displays Workstation messages and an icon for each removable device You can click or right click an icon to disconnect it or edit its configuration Message log A note icon indicates whether any unread messages are present in the message log for the selected virtual machine If the icon is dimmed all messages have been read To open the message log right click the icon and choose Open Message Log Alternatively from the menu bar choose VM gt Message Log Messages include warning information about the virtual machine such as Could not connect to the floppy drive or No bootable device was detected Select an item in the message log to see a longer description of the message 63 Workstation User s Manual 64 Home Page and Views Workstation displays one of four views in the main part of the window the home page the summary view the console view or the appliance view Home Page Click the Home tab to display the Workstation home page Use the icons on the home page to start creating a new virtual machine or open an existing virtual machine To close the home page click the X to the right of the tabs on a Windows host or
209. appears regarding mounting HGFS shares The mount can fail if shared folders are disabled or if the share does not exist You are not prompted to re run the VMware Tools configurator the vmware config tools pl file VMware Inc 183 Workstation User s Manual Improved Handling of Permissions Many refinements have been made for Linux guests on both Linux and Windows hosts m Ifyou use a Linux host and create files that you want to share with a Linux guest the file permissions shown on the guest are exactly the same as those on the host Use fmask and dmask to mask permissions bits for files and directories m Ifyou use a Windows host and create files that you want to share with a Linux guest read only files are displayed as having read and execute permission for everyone and other files are shown as fully writable by everyone m If you use a Linux guest to create files for which you want to restrict permissions use the mount program with the following options in the guest uid gid fmask dmask ro read only and rw read write Note that rw is the default If you are using a Windows host or a Linux host created with a previous release of Workstation you can change only the owner permissions This behavior is the same as in previous releases Using a Mapped Drive for Windows Only You can map a virtual disk to a host instead of using shared folders or copying data between a Windows guest and host In this case you can moun
210. apping in order to map keysyms rather than key codes to v scan codes set the following property xkeymap nokeycodeMap TRUE For more information see X Key Codes Compared to Keysyms on page 329 m If Workstation has a table in the xkeymap directory for your keyboard but cannot detect it set the following property xkeymap language lt keyboard_type gt VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices The value lt keyboard_type gt must specify one of the tables in the xkeymap directory However the failure to detect the keyboard probably means the table is not completely correct for you You might need to create a modified table and use the xkeymap fileName property described next To use a different keysym mapping table that is not in the xkeymap directory set the following property xkeymap fileName lt file_path gt where lt file_path gt is the path to the table The table must list a keysym for each key by using the following form lt sym gt lt v scan code gt where lt sym gt is an X keysym name and lt v scan code gt is a C syntax hexadecimal number for example 0x001 Use a new line for each keysym Compiling a complete keysym mapping is difficult VMware recommends editing an existing table and making small changes To change the keysym mapping of a few keys set the following property for each key on separate lines xkeymap keysym lt sym gt lt v scan code gt The value
211. apshots select Independent for the mode and choose one of the following options VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives m Persistent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk m Nonpersistent Changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to a snapshot See Information Captured by Snapshots on page 191 12 Click Finish The wizard configures the new physical disk 13 Use the guest operating system s tools to format any partitions on the physical disk that are not formatted for your guest operating system CAUTION After you add a virtual machine disk by using one or more partitions V ona physical disk never modify the partition tables by running fdisk or a similar utility in the guest operating system If you do so you must re create the virtual machine s physical disk Adding DVD CD ROM and Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine Workstation 6 virtual machines can use up to 4 IDE devices and up to 60 SCSI devices Any of these devices can be a virtual or physical hard disk or DVD or CD ROM drive A virtual machine can read data from a DVD disc Workstation does not support playing DVD movies in a virtual machine You might be able to play a movie if you use a DVD player application that does not require video overlay support in the video card This section describes how to configure a virtual machine to use a host DVD drive CD ROM drive or floppy disk drive It a
212. ar and continue with the following steps Right click the Power Snapshot ACE View or Replay toolbar to open the Customize Toolbar window The Customize Toolbar window for that toolbar appears Buttons listed under Current Toolbar Buttons are displayed in the toolbar in the order shown in the Customize Toolbars window Make any of the following changes m Toadd or remove a button from the toolbar select the button and click Add or Remove Add a separator to display a vertical line between the buttons m To change the order of the buttons select any button under Current Toolbar Buttons and click Move Up or Move Down to rearrange the buttons m To change the order of the currently displayed buttons without opening the Customize Toolbar window Hold down the Shift key while you drag and drop a button to a different location in the toolbar m To restore the default setup with all buttons displayed click Reset Click Close 71 Workstation User s Manual View the Sidebar The sidebar contains a list of favorites and shows which virtual machines or teams of virtual machines are currently powered on On Windows hosts an additional section of the sidebar displays ACE Management Servers For a description of this product see the VMware ACE Management Server User s Manual To view the Sidebar Choose View gt Sidebar If the sidebar was hidden it becomes visible If it was visible it is hidden Favorites List in the Sid
213. ardware tab to configure this serial port to use polled mode select Yield CPU on poll This option is of interest to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection If the serial port in the guest is being used in polled mode rather than interrupt mode you might notice performance issues This option forces the virtual machine to yield processor time if the only task it is trying to do is poll the virtual serial port On the host configure the application that communicates with the virtual machine to use the same pipe name for a Windows host or the same UNIX socket name for a Linux host Use a Serial Port Connection Between Two Virtual Machines You can set up the virtual serial ports in two virtual machines to connect to each other This is useful if you want to use an application in one virtual machine the client to capture debugging information sent from the other the server virtual machine s serial port VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices The following procedures describe how to set up the server and the client for connecting to each other by two virtual serial ports To use a serial port connection between two virtual machines 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings Click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard Select Serial Port and click Next On
214. are VMware Tools folder m On most UNIX guests the default script executed when you suspend a virtual machine stops networking for the virtual machine The default script executed VMware Inc 127 Workstation User s Manual when you resume a virtual machine starts networking for the virtual machine Scripts cannot be run on NetWare and FreeBSD guests On UNIX the default scripts are located in the etc vmware tools directory You can create your own scripts and use them instead of the default scripts shown in Table 6 1 Table 6 1 Default VMware Tools Scripts Script Name poweroff vm default Description If you configured the power off operation to shut down the guest this script runs when the virtual machine is being powered off If you configured the reset operation to restart the guest this script runs when the virtual machine is being reset This script has no effect on networking for the virtual machine poweron vm default If you configured the power on operation to start the guest this script runs when the virtual machine is being powered on rather than resumed If you configured the reset operation to restart the guest this script runs after virtual machine restarts This script has no effect on networking for the virtual machine resume vm default If you configured the power on operation to start the guest or the reset operation to restart the guest this script runs when the virtual mac
215. are VMware Workstation m Add the VMware Workstation directory to the system path On Windows 2000 and XP you can change this setting at Control Panel gt System gt Advanced gt Environment Variables gt System variables gt Path To launch the vmrun application from the command prompt enter vmrun COMMAND OPTION Valid vmrun commands and options are described in Table A 2 If authentication is required in the guest operating system use the following authentication flags as appropriate gu lt userName in guest OS gt gp lt password in guest OS gt Table A 2 vmrun Commands and Parameters Command Description Parameters General Commands list List all running virtual machines None upgradevm Upgrade a virtual machine to the current Path to vmx file Workstation version VMware Inc 457 Workstation User s Manual Table A 2 vmrun Commands and Parameters Continued Command installtools Description Install VMware Tools in the guest operating system In Windows guests the VMware Tools installer runs automatically In Linux guests this command connects the virtual machine s virtual CD ROM drive to the VMware Tools ISO image for that guest but the installer does not start automatically Complete the installation with additional manual steps as described in Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest Within X by Using the RPM Installer on page 110 Parameters Path to vmx file Power
216. are not listed as installed continue with the Modify option to install them m If the problem modules are listed as installed click Back and use the Repair option Complete the rest of the pages of the wizard If features still do not work uninstall VMware Tools and reinstall Open the VMware Tools Control Panel Use the VMware Tools control panel to modify VMware Tools configuration settings shrink virtual disks and connect and disconnect virtual devices Before you begin make sure VMware Tools is installed in the guest operating system On Windows Vista guests log in to the operating system as an Administrator user To open the VMware Tools control panel Do one of the following VMware Inc On Windows guests double click VMware Tools icon in the notification area of the guest s Windows taskbar If you cannot find the VMware Tools icon in the notification area use the guest s Windows Control Panel to display it On Linux FreeBSD and Solaris guests open a terminal window and enter the command usr bin vmware toolbox amp 121 Workstation User s Manual 122 On NetWare guests do one of the following m Ina NetWare 5 1 or higher guest choose Novell gt Settings gt VMware Tools for NetWare m Ina NetWare 4 2 guest use VMware Tools commands in the system console The VMware Tools program is called vmwtool Use the Windows Control Panel to Display the VMware Tools Taskbar Icon If VMwa
217. are support offerings can help meet your business needs Go to http www vmware com support services 20 VMware Inc Preface Reporting Problems If you have problems while running VMware Workstation please report them to the VMware support team First be sure to register your serial number From the Workstation menu bar choose Help gt VMware on the Web gt Register Now You can then report your problems by submitting a support request at www vmware com requestsupport The VMware support team might ask you to run a support script in order to gather the information needed to diagnose the problem For example if a virtual machine exits abnormally or crashes run the support script to collect the appropriate log files and system information As of Workstation version 6 0 1 you can run the support script by clicking a button in the Help gt About VMware Workstation box You can also as in previous releases run the script from the command line To run the support script from the Workstation user interface 1 Start VMware Workstation For instructions see Start Workstation on a Windows Host on page 61 2 Choose Help gt About 3 Inthe About VMware Workstation dialog box that appears click Collect Support Data 4 Inthe confirmation box that appears confirm that you want to collect support data On Windows hosts after the script finishes running it creates a zip file and displays the path to the file On Linux hosts the
218. art the guest or use the guest operating system to shut down shared folders are not disabled when you restart the virtual machine m Select Always enabled to enable or disable specific folders in the Folders section 7 Access the enabled shared folder on the guest operating system m Ona Windows guest operating system map a network drive to the Shared Folders directory as described in Viewing a Shared Folder on page 181 m On Linux shared folders appear under mnt hgfs m On Solaris shared folders appear under hgfs Enabling and Disabling Shared Folders A shared folder is disabled by default if it was not created by the user that powers on the virtual machine This is a security precaution The following sections describe how to enable shared folders for virtual machines created by other users enable or disable folder sharing for a specific virtual machine and enable a specific shared folder for a virtual machine CAUTION Enabling all shared folders can pose a security risk because a shared folder might enable existing programs inside the virtual machine to access the host file system without your knowledge You can enable folder sharing if you created virtual machines with Workstation 4 5 or 6 Folder sharing for Workstation 4 5 and 6 virtual machines is also disabled by default To avoid the security threat of enabling all shared folders you must first enable folder sharing for a specific virtual machine and
219. as described in Add Virtual Network Adapters on page 268 Set Up Using Configuration 3 To set up using configuration 3 1 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 2 From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens 3 On the Hardware tab select Ethernet 4 Connect the two adapters as follows a Select the first network adapter in the list of devices and in the Network Connection section select Host only This adapter is connected to the default host only interface vmnet1 b Select the second network adapter in the list and in the Network Connection section select Custom and choose vmnet2 Host only from the drop down list 5 Optional If no network adapter is shown in the list of devices add one as described in Add Virtual Network Adapters on page 268 Complete Configuring the Virtual Network Adapters To complete configuring the virtual network adapters 1 Power on the virtual machine and install your guest operating system In configurations 1 and 2 you see one network adapter In configuration 3 you see two network adapters within the guest 2 Configure the network adapters as you would physical adapters on a physical computer giving each an IP address on the appropriate vmnet subnet To see what IP address a host only network is using m On Windows hosts open a command prompt and run ipconfig all m On Linux h
220. as a snapshot you must remove the snapshot before you upgrade Use your earlier Workstation 4 application to remove the snapshot and then upgrade to Workstation 6 198 VMware Inc Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines Cloning a virtual machine is faster and easier than copying it This chapter provides instructions and also provides information on how to move your virtual machines from one host to another or elsewhere on the same host plus recommendations on how to share virtual machines with other users This chapter includes the following topics The Virtual Machine s Universal Unique Identifier on page 199 Cloning a Virtual Machine on page 201 Moving a Virtual Machine on page 205 Moving Linked Clones on page 209 Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users on page 209 m m m m Moving an Older Virtual Machine on page 209 m m m Sharing Virtual Machines with VMware Player on page 210 The Virtual Machine s Universal Unique Identifier To ensure all virtual machines are identified properly each virtual machine is automatically assigned a universal unique identifier UUID Use the UUID of a virtual machine for system management in the same way you use the UUID of a physical computer The UUID is stored in the SMBIOS system information descriptor It can be accessed by standard SMBIOS scanning software such as SiSoftware Sandra or the IBM utility smbios2 This UUID
221. at the following prompt The following bridged networks have been defined vmnetO is bridged to etho Do you wish to configure another bridged network yes no no If you have additional physical network adapters not yet connected to a bridged network the prompt is repeated showing information about all currently configured bridged networks 3 When you have set up all the bridged networks you want enter no Setting Up Two Separate Host Only Networks For some configurations you might need to set up more than one host only network on the same host computer You might for example want to have two virtual machines connected to one host only network and at the same time have other virtual machines 286 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking connected to another host only network so the network traffic on each network is isolated Or you might want to test routing between two virtual networks Or you might want to test a virtual machine with multiple network interface cards without using any physical network adapters On both Windows and Linux hosts the first host only network is set up automatically when you install Workstation Set up a Second Host Only Network on a Windows Host To set up a second host only network on a Windows host 1 2 3 4 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings On the Host Virtual Adapters tab click Add Choose the virtual network on which you
222. ating system natively on the host computer and switching to running it inside a virtual machine is like pulling the hard drive out of one computer and installing it in a second computer with a different motherboard and hardware The steps you take depend on the operating system you want to use inside the virtual machine See the VMware technical note Dual Boot Computers and Virtual Machines You can also create a new virtual machine that uses a physical disk See Using Physical Disks in a Virtual Machine on page 221 In most cases however it is better to use a virtual disk If you use a physical disk the vmdk file stores information about the physical disk or partition that the virtual machine uses After you configure a virtual machine to use one or more partitions on a physical disk do not modify the partition tables by running fdisk or a similar utility in the guest operating system If you use fdisk ora similar utility on the host operating system to modify the partition table of the physical disk you must re create the virtual machine s physical disk All files that were on the physical disk are lost when you modify the partition table CAUTION Do not use a physical disk to share files between host and guest operating systems It is not safe to make the same partition visible to both host and guest You can cause data corruption if you do this To share files between host and guest operating systems use shared folders See
223. ation User s Manual 336 Although your host operating system must support USB you do not need to install device specific drivers for USB devices in the host operating system to use those devices only in the virtual machine Windows NT and Linux kernels older than 2 2 17 do not support USB VMware has tested a variety of USB devices with this release If the guest operating system has appropriate drivers you can use PDAs printers storage disk devices scanners MP3 players digital cameras and memory card readers USB human interface devices such as the keyboard and mouse are not handled though the virtual machine s USB controller Instead they appear in the virtual machine as a standard PS 2 keyboard and mouse even though they are plugged into USB ports on the host Enable the USB 2 0 Controller for a Virtual Machine The virtual machine s USB ports are enabled by default although support for high speed USB 2 0 devices is not enabled by default Modems and certain streaming data devices such as speakers and webcams do not work properly unless you enable USB 2 0 support Before you begin perform one of the following tasks that apply to your setup m Verify that the virtual machine is a Workstation 6 or higher virtual machine m On Windows XP guests verify that the latest service pack is installed if you want to use USB 2 0 If you use Windows XP with no service packs the driver for the EHCI controller cannot be loaded
224. ation policy 374 Active Directory password change proxying 381 adapter host virtual adapters 275 in promiscuous mode on a Linux host 292 virtual Ethernet 268 adding notes to package history 431 address assigning IP 279 assigning MAC manually 283 IP in virtual machine 89 IP on virtual network 277 MAC 282 network address translation 292 using DHCP to assign 278 administrative lockout 351 administrative tools policy 399 AMD Athlon 64 processor 26 38 AMD Opteron processor 26 38 AMD Sempron processor 26 38 AMD Turion 64 processor 26 38 appliance view 395 501 Workstation User s Manual 502 appliance view for virtual machines 169 assign IP address 277 network port number in NAT 300 Athlon 64 processor 26 38 attaching to a process for debugging 473 491 audio 35 310 311 AudioPCl 311 authentication policy 374 automatic bridging 270 B background running virtual machines in 81 238 bandwidth controlling in team networks 245 LAN segment 255 battery information reporting in guest 158 BIOS file in virtual machine 100 provided in virtual machine 33 bmp files for screen captures 171 bridged networking configuring options 269 defined 493 browser and appliance views 169 configuring on Linux host 45 BSD supported 32 bit guest operating systems 37 supported 64 bit guest operating systems 37 BT KT 958 drivers 90 BusLogic 34 343 C capacity disk 214 226 png files for screen captures 171 ca
225. ay 27 Disk Drives 27 Local Area Networking Optional 28 Host Operating System 28 Virtual Machine Specifications 32 Processor 32 Chip Set 33 BIOS 33 Memory 33 Graphics 33 IDE Drives 33 SCSI Devices 33 Floppy Drives 34 Serial COM Ports 34 Parallel LPT Ports 34 USB ports 34 Keyboard 34 Mouse and Drawing Tablets 34 Ethernet Card 35 Sound 35 Virtual Networking 35 Supported Guest Operating Systems 35 Support for 64 Bit Guest Operating Systems 38 Workstation User s Manual Installing VMware Workstation 39 Installation Prerequisites 39 Sharing a Workstation Host with Other VMware Products 40 Install Workstation on a Windows Host 41 Install Workstation Silently 43 Uninstall Workstation from a Windows Host 44 Install Workstation on a Linux Host 45 Configuring Workstation with vmware config pl 47 Uninstall Workstation from a Linux Host 48 Where to Go Next 49 Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines 51 Prepare for the Upgrade 51 Removing Workstation 2 or 3 to Install Workstation 6 x 52 Upgrade Workstation on a Windows Host 53 Upgrading to a Windows Vista Host 54 Upgrade Workstation on a Linux Host 55 Using an Older Version Virtual Machine Without Upgrading 56 Change the Version of the Virtual Machine 57 Learning Workstation Basics 61 Start Workstation on a Windows Host 61 Start Workstation on a Linux Host 62 Overview of the Workstation Window 62 Home Page and Views 64 Toolbar Buttons 67 View the Sidebar 72 Favorites List in
226. ble device 437 VMware Player on a Linux host 445 instance customization enabled packaging overview 430 guest operating systems for 416 initialization scripts 417 Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools 416 package settings overview 415 placeholder values 419 specifying deployment settings 417 specifying license information for Windows server products 420 workgroup or domain setting 417 Intel EM64T processor 27 38 lomega parallel port zip drives 314 IP address assigning 279 clone 204 in virtual machine 89 static 278 IP forwarding 280 IP packet forwarding disabling 281 ISO image file 33 227 230 J JVM automatically selected 469 changing the path 469 507 Workstation User s Manual 508 K kbps for LAN segment 255 kernel paravirtual support for 98 upgrades and Workstation 47 key code mapping 329 keyboard enhanced virtual on Windows 324 language keymaps for VNC clients 325 mapping on a Linux host 327 shortcuts 82 USB 335 keyboard enhanced filter 396 keyloggers 396 keysym defined 329 mapping 329 knowledge base VMware 20 L LAN segment andteams 254 deleting 256 LAN segments changing name 255 configuring connections to 256 setting bandwidth 255 setting Kops 255 setting packet loss 255 launch configurations 469 creating to attach to applications 471 creating to start applications 469 duplicating to attach to applications 471 duplicating to start applications 469
227. ble from the Help menu 3 Install the VMware Tools package in the virtual machine See Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools on page 103 4 Start using the virtual machine See Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics on page 61 and Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines on page 149 VMware Inc 49 Workstation User s Manual 50 VMware Inc Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines This chapter discusses how to upgrade VMware Workstation 4 5 or 6 0 x on your Linux or Windows host system and how to use existing virtual machines under Workstation 6 5 or upgrade them This chapter contains the following topics Prepare for the Upgrade on page 51 Upgrade Workstation on a Windows Host on page 53 Upgrade Workstation on a Linux Host on page 55 Using an Older Version Virtual Machine Without Upgrading on page 56 Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 Prepare for the Upgrade When you install a new version of Workstation the previous version is uninstalled but the preferences you set license files and virtual machines are not removed Although you do not delete virtual machines created with an earlier version of Workstation VMware recommends that you make backup copies and power them off completely in preparation for the upgrade Before you begin make sure all virtual machines are Workstation 4 5 or 6 0 x virtual machines Direct upgrades from a Wor
228. bled The domain password is for the user account that has permission to add computers to this domain The password in the Remote domain join section is for the user account that has permission to access the VPN server Verify that you have enough disk space for temporary files created during packaging You must have twice the combined sizes of all the components of the package The wizard displays information about the amount of space needed and the locations where the space is needed If you do not have enough free space a warning message appears You can move or delete files on the target drives to make room for the wizard s working files Determine the type of package you want to deploy full update or custom See Overview of Package Creation and Validation on page 426 To distribute the package on DVDs or CDs determine how much disk space is available You can then specify the maximum file size used when the package is divided into multiple files To use instance customization verify that the following prerequisites are satisfied VMware Inc Make sure that the guest operating system is Windows XP Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Copy the Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Tools into the correct folder for the virtual machine See Download the Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Tools on page 417 If these tools are not available the packaging operation fails The failure might not occur until well into the packaging proce
229. bled virtual machine the package is created but the host policy is not included in the package You cannot view changes to host policies in the preview mode If you want to test the effects of such changes you must perform a test deployment See Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances on page 413 Use the Network Access Wizard to Configure Network Access VMware recommends that you use the Network Access wizard to configure basic settings and then use the zone and ruleset editors to fine tune the settings if necessary The Network Access wizard creates or changes rules for the following zones VMware Inc If you choose the Desktop Configuration option the wizard creates a new guest access ruleset for the Everywhere zone This ruleset restricts ACE instance access to your VPN or other specified network hosts If you choose the Laptop Configuration option the wizard creates a new internal zone that restricts the network address and optionally the domain on which the ACE instance can run It can also create a new host access ruleset for this zone to restrict access to the internal network For example you can specify a proxy server 385 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 386 Finally you can configure the same remote access as for the Desktop Configuration option If you use this option and you do not modify any of the default settings that the wizard provides the host is still allowed to communicate with DNS and DHCP s
230. box 7 Select one of the following methods for sending the response m Click Send hot fix on the hot fix tab and click OK m Send the hot fix file It is in the same folder as the hot fix request The file extension for the fix file is vmhf The display on the hot fix tab shows the status of the hot fix request approved or denied and the date on which you took action VMware Inc Chapter 24 Installing ACE Instances The user applies the hot fix by double clicking the hot fix file Troubleshooting Setup Issues Occasionally ACE end users have problems logging in to a domain after running the Revert to Reimage Snapshot command They might sometimes also have problems with domain validation and name resolution Login Issues After Reverting to a Reimage Snapshot Problem The ACE user can t log the ACE instance back in to a domain after choosing VMware Player gt Troubleshoot gt Revert to Reimage Snapshot Description The ACE instance has a Windows guest operating system installed and the machine account password for the domain is periodically renewed by default If the password is renewed by the time the user reverts the ACE instance to the snapshot the snapshot s password is invalid and login fails Solution To avoid this problem ensure that the following security policy is enabled Refuse machine account password changes You can enable this policy on the ACE enabled virtual machine affecting all instances created from
231. cases it is best to configure virtual machines to use virtual hard disks rather than physical hard disks A virtual disk is a file or set of files that appears as a physical disk drive to a guest operating system The files can be on the host machine or on a remote computer When you configure a virtual machine with a virtual disk you can install a new operating system onto the virtual disk without repartitioning a physical disk or rebooting the host Portability A key advantage of virtual disks is their portability Because the virtual disks are stored as files on the host machine or a remote computer you can move them easily to a new location on the same computer or to a different computer You can also use Workstation on a Windows host to create virtual disks move them to a Linux computer and use them with Workstation for Linux and the reverse See Moving a Virtual Machine on page 205 Disk Size and Files Virtual disks can be as large as 950GB IDE or SCSI Depending on the size of the virtual disk and the host operating system Workstation creates one or more files to hold each virtual disk These files include information such as the operating system program files and data files The virtual disk files have a vmdk extension By default the actual files that the virtual disk uses start small and grow to their maximum size as needed The main advantage of this approach is the smaller file size Smaller files require less stor
232. ce on the host is located on bus 2 with target ID 4 change this line to scsi0 4 fileName scsi2 4 If your problem was that the virtual machine has a SCSI adapter and generic SCSI device but Workstation did not recognize the device when the virtual machine was powered on you can stop at this point 6 Ifthe virtual machine does not contain any SCSI devices or if you want to add a generic SCSI device to a new virtual SCSI adapter or if you want to use an existing SCSI device as a generic SCSI device also add the following line in the vmx file scsiZ Y deviceType scsi passthru If your problem was that you want to use an existing SCSI device as a generic SCSI device you can stop at this point 7 Ifthe virtual machine does not contain any SCSI devices or if you want to add a generic SCSI device to a new virtual SCSI adapter also add the following lines in the vmx file scsiZ Y present true scsiZ present true where Z is the SCSI bus number the device uses in the virtual machine If the virtual machine settings editor still does not include this device in the list of available SCSI devices for this virtual machine contact VMware technical support VMware Inc 347 Workstation User s Manual Use Two Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing 348 With virtual SMP you can assign two virtual processors to a virtual machine on any host machine that has at least two logical processors The following are all con
233. chine was suspended See also suspend revert to snapshot Reverting to a snapshot restores the status of the active virtual machine to its immediate parent snapshot This parent is represented in the snapshot manager by the snapshot appearing to the immediate left of the You Are Here icon See also Go to Snapshot command snapshot manager You Are Here icon S shared folder VMware Inc A shared folder is a folder on the host computer or on a network drive accessible from the host computer that can be used by both the host computer and one or more virtual machines It provides a simple way of sharing files between host and guest or among virtual machines In a Windows virtual machine shared folders appear as folders on a designated drive letter In a Linux or Solaris virtual machine shared folders appear under a specified mount point 497 Workstation User s Manual snapshot A snapshot preserves the virtual machine just as it was when you took that snapshot This includes whether the virtual machine was powered on powered off or suspended If the virtual hard disks are not set to independent mode a snapshot also includes the state of the data on all the virtual machine s disks Workstation lets you take snapshots of a virtual machine at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time You can take a snapshot when a virtual machine is powered on powered off or suspended See also independent disk snapshot manager The s
234. chines on page 257 Benefits of Using Teams Workstation teams allow you to set up a virtual computer lab on one host computer Use a team to power on multiple associated virtual machines with a single click You can use teams to do the following VMware Inc Virtualize multitier environments Start separate client server and database virtual machines with one click Configure startup delay times so clients don t submit queries before the server is ready Setting a startup delay between the booting of virtual machines also avoids overloading the CPU of the host Virtualize multiple machine testing environments Set up a software package for QA on a virtual machine and configure automation on other virtual machines to test the first 245 Workstation User s Manual m Virtualize network performance and security Team virtual machines can use networking just as other virtual machines can In addition team members can communicate in private networks called LAN segments Team networking lets you to do the following m Isolate a team completely from the host network A team LAN segment is undetectable and inaccessible from any other network m Create a virtual DMZ or proxy server to securely bridge the team members to the outside network m Allow specific network bandwidth and packet loss to each virtual machine on the team m Connect all team members fully to host resources You control all traffic allowed b
235. cket is allowed or blocked as the rule specifies The protocol number is used in the protocol field of IPv4 packets For a list of protocol numbers see the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANA organization s Web site Most protocol numbers are permanently assigned m Remote Ports and Local Ports If you are using either TCP or UDP and want to qualify the rule with specific port numbers for this type of traffic type the port numbers or port number ranges wn The wildcard port setting is double quotation marks Usually you specify filtering on either local or remote ports not both because both specifications have to match for the rule to be applied DHCP represents an exception to this general rule The local port is the source port for outgoing packets and the destination port for incoming packets Typically you specify a local port when the host or guest is being used as a server obtaining remote connections on some port The remote port is the source port for incoming packets and the destination port for outgoing packets Typically you specify a remote port when the host or guest is a client and is contacting a remote server on some port Change NAT Settings You can use the NAT feature of the network access policy to specify the IP address range for the virtual network VMnet8 on the ACE instance s host system You deploy this network properties setting with the ACE package V CAUTION Ifyou set this proper
236. command to start the network services If you re using a Windows 2000 guest operating system for example you can call the NetShell utility netsh and pass it the contents of the string which uses the string accordingly That is it can set a new IP address for the virtual machine if that is what was passed in the string originally Passing Information Between the Guest and Another Program The VMware Tools service allows you to use VMware programmatic interfaces to manage virtual machines from your own independent programs and from existing frameworks developed by partners and third parties For more information about the VMware Infrastructure SDK go to the VMware APIs and SDKs Documentation page of the VMware Web site Use the VMware Tools Command Line Interface The VMware Tools command line interface you do the following m Configure time synchronization in your Linux guest operating system without running X VMware Inc 133 Workstation User s Manual 134 Use some special time synchronization options without power off the virtual machine and editing its configuration vmx file Configure VMware Tools options from the command line rather than from the VMware Tools control panel To use the VMware Tools command line interface 1 On the guest operating system change directories to the directory that contains the VMware Tools daemon Depending on the operating system the name and default location of the daemon
237. cond CD a Disconnect from the current image by choosing VM gt Removable Devices gt CD ROM gt Disconnect b Editthe CD settings by choosing VM gt Removable Devices gt CD ROM gt Edit c For Use ISO image file click Browse and select the ISO image for the second CD d Inthe Device Status area select the Connected check box and click OK e Inthe guest operating system click OK or respond to the prompt so that installation can continue f Repeat this process for additional CDs 4 Click the Power On button 5 Follow the instructions provided by the operating system vendor Also see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu After the guest operating system is installed you can use the standard tools within the operating system to configure its settings VMware recommends that you install VMware Tools before you activate the license for the operating system See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 Use a Paravirtualized Kernel in Linux Guests to Enhance Performance Since 2005 VMware has been collaborating with the Linux community to develop a common paravirtualization interface In 2006 VMware released its VMI specification as an open specification For more information about paravirtualization in general see the following VMware Web site at http www vmware com interfaces paravirtualization html If you have a VMware VMI Virtual Machine Interface
238. ct Disabling Periodic Screenshots If the recording session lasts for a long time a significant number of screenshots are automatically created in the virtual machine directory NOTE Even when periodic screenshots are disabled one screenshot is taken at the end of every recording To disable periodic screenshots 1 Add the following line to the configuration vmx file for the virtual machine snapshot periodicScreenshots X where X denotes the interval of screenshots taken in seconds The default value for X is 5 seconds 2 To disable periodic screenshots change the value of X to 0 3 Save and close the configuration file Set the Debugging Mode Workstation has three modes for collecting debugging information normal mode which means that no debugging information is gathered statistics mode and full debugging mode In normal mode the virtual machine runs faster than in the other modes As of the Workstation 6 release you do not need to restart the virtual machine after changing the debugging mode For normal use make sure you are not running in debugging mode as described in the procedure in this section You might need to use one of the other modes under the following conditions m If the virtual machine sometimes crashes and you want to determine the cause use full debugging mode so that you can send the debugging logs to VMware technical support m If in normal mode the virtual machine runs extreme
239. ct the team and choose Team gt Delete from Disk 2 Complete the dialog box that appears m To delete the team without deleting the virtual machines in it choose Delete m To delete the team and the virtual machines in it choose Delete Team and VMs When you delete a team you also delete all team LAN segments The virtual Ethernet adapters associated with deleted LAN segments become disconnected Bridged host only NAT and custom configurations remain unchanged 3 Click OK Summary and Console Views for Teams and Their Virtual Machines Workstation displays teams in a summary view or console view m The summary view is available at any time See Summary View on page 64 VMware Inc 249 Workstation User s Manual 250 m The console view is available only when a team is powered on A grab bar allows you to resize the areas Figure 14 1 Console Window for a Team on a Windows Host 7 Team QA YMs Mware Workstation File Edt View YM Team Windows Help jer 85 838 D088 028 584 su Vista YM gu Red Hat 3 SJ Team QA VMs BP ieee el 1 x thumbnail views of virtual machines in the team in the order of the startup sequence left to right active virtual machine L Your version of VMware Tools is out of date Boa O 4 If the team contains many virtual machines you might need to scroll the thumbnails to view all the virtual machines The thumbnails are displayed in the same order as the team
240. d the key codes are mapped into keysyms that have names like space escape x and 2 The mapping can be controlled by an X application by using the function XChangeKeyboardMapping or by the program xmodmap To explore keyboard mappings you can use xev which shows the key codes and keysyms for keys typed into its window A key code corresponds roughly to a physical key whereas a keysym corresponds to the symbol on the key top For example with an XFree86 server running on a PC the Z key on the German keyboard has the same key code as the Y key on an English keyboard The German Z keysym however is the same as the English Z keysym and different from the English Y keysym Configure How Keysyms Are Mapped When key code mapping cannot be used or is disabled Workstation maps keysyms to v scan codes If a language specific keyboard does not appear to be supported by Workstation you might need to set a property that tells Workstation which keysym table to use VMware Inc 329 Workstation User s Manual 330 Before you begin perform the following tasks If you need to change the mapping of a few keys determine the keysym name for each key that is not mapped correctly The easiest way to find the keysym name for a key is to run xev or xmodmap pk The X header file usr include X11 keysymdef h has a complete list of keysyms The name of a keysym is the same as its C constant without the XK_ prefix If you need to use a diffe
241. d Paste 176 To use the copy and paste feature VMware Tools must be installed on the virtual machine This feature requires Linux hosts and guests to run X Windows and Solaris 10 guests to run an Xorg X server and JDS Gnome Copying and pasting text and files works with Linux and Windows hosts and Linux Windows and Solaris 10 guests However this feature does not work on Windows 95 98 and NT guests You can cut or copy and paste text from one virtual machine to another but you cannot copy and paste files between virtual machines You can cut or copy and paste text between applications in the virtual machine and the host computer or between two virtual machines Use the normal hot keys or menu choices to cut or copy and paste VMware Inc Chapter 9 Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest Enable or Disable Copy and Paste To prevent accidental copying and pasting from one environment to another disable this feature Before you begin VMware Tools must be installed on the virtual machine and it is powered off To enable or disable copy and paste 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens 3 Click the Options tab and select Guest Isolation 4 Select or deselect the Enable copy and paste to and from virtual machine check box and click OK Using Shared Folders With shared folders you can share files among virtual machines and the host computer You choose a
242. d error messages about the actions of the integrated virtual debugger When installed you can debug in multiple virtual machines simultaneously You can also debug multiple sessions in a single virtual machine NOTE However you cannot debug on a local or physically remote machine and in a virtual machine at the same time Microsoft Visual Studio Requirements and Recommendations This section includes requirements and configuration recommendations for Visual Studio Visual Studio must be running on the same system as Workstation 6 5 Supported Versions of Visual Studio Only Visual Studio 2005 Professional and Team Systems editions are supported These versions of Visual Studio allow remote debugging on Windows systems with the exceptions of Windows NT and Windows Vista Starter Edition The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger uses the features of the Remote Debug Monitor msvsmon exe to communicate with the guest operating system VMware recommends that you install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 For more information see http msdn2 microsoft com en us vstudio bb265237 aspx For important information about running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista see http msdn2 microsoft com en us vstudio aa972193 aspx Running the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger on Windows Vista Starter Edition is not supported For information about issues running Visual Studio on Windows Vista Starter Edition see http msdn2 microsoft com
243. d received from a virtual machine must be in the NAT network there is an unavoidable performance penalty m NAT is not perfectly transparent It does not normally allow connections to be initiated from outside the network although you can set up server connections by manually configuring the NAT VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking device The practical result is that some TCP and UDP protocols that require a connection be initiated from the server machine some peer to peer applications for example do not work automatically and some might not work at all m NAT provides some firewall protection A standard NAT configuration provides basic level firewall protection because the NAT device can initiate connections from the private NAT network but devices on the external network cannot normally initiate connections to the private NAT network Using NAT with NetLogon When using NAT networking in a virtual machine with a Windows guest operating system running on a Windows host you can use NetLogon to log on to a Windows domain from the virtual machine You can then access file shares known by the WINS server in the domain To use NetLogon you need to know how WINS servers and Windows domain controllers work This section explains how to set up the virtual machine to use NetLogon The setup process is similar to the way you set up a physical computer on one LAN that is using a domain controller on another LAN
244. dden and the guest s open applications are displayed in application windows on the host s desktop 3 To exit unity mode display the Workstation window and choose View gt Unity to remove the check mark next to Unity Use Full Screen Mode In full screen mode the virtual machine display fills the screen so that you no longer see the borders of the Workstation window Figure 8 1 Full Screen Toolbar on a Windows Host Cycle multiple monitors button Next VM button Selector arrow Windows XP Professional Wks 6 YM GB amp X e 1 Windows XP Professional Wks 6 2 Windows 2000 Professional 4 Next Virtual Machine Ctrl Alt Right Previous Virtual Machine Ctrl Alt Left VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines Before you begin make sure the guest operating system has VMware Tools installed See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 NOTE If you plan to run the virtual machine in full screen mode on a laptop computer also see Report Battery Information in the Guest Operating System on page 158 To use full screen mode 1 2 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered on If you have multiple monitors move the Workstation window into the monitor you want to use for displaying the virtual machine in full screen mode Choose View gt Full Screen If you cannot enter full screen mode when the guest s display mode is s
245. delete the installer afterwards to reclaim disk space Optical CD ROM DVD ROM Drive m IDE and SCSI optical drives supported m CD ROM and DVD ROM drives supported m ISO disk image files supported VMware Inc 27 Workstation User s Manual 28 Floppy Drives Virtual machines can connect to the host s floppy drives Floppy disk image files are also supported Local Area Networking Optional m Any Ethernet controller supported by the host operating system m Non Ethernet networks supported using built in network address translation NAT or using a combination of host only networking plus routing software on the host operating system Host Operating System VMware Workstation is available for both Windows and Linux host operating systems Windows Host Operating Systems Workstation supports the following Windows 32 bit and 64 bit host operating systems Table 1 1 Windows Host Operating Systems Processor Type Operating System Edition 32 bit Windows Vista Enterprise Edition Windows Vista Business Edition Windows Vista Home Basic and Premium Editions Windows Vista Ultimate Edition Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 SP2 Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP1 Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition SP1 SP2 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 Listed versions are also supported with no service pack Windows XP Home Edition SP1 SP2 Windows
246. der specified in proc scsi scsi from the lowest device ID on the lowest adapter to the highest device ID on the lowest adapter and so on to the highest device ID on the highest adapter Some Linux devices such as tape drives disk drives and CD ROM drives already have a designated dev entry st sd and sr respectively When the SCSI generic driver is installed Linux identifies these devices with corresponding sg entries in dev in addition to their traditional entries Workstation ensures that multiple programs are not using the same dev sg entry at the same time but cannot always ensure that multiple programs are not using the dev sg entry and the traditional dev entry at the same time When you specify which SCSI device to use in a virtual machine do not specify dev st0 or dev srQ CAUTION Do not attempt to use the same generic SCSI device in both host and guest This can cause unexpected behavior and might cause loss or corruption of data 344 VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Add a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine To map virtual SCSI devices on a virtual machine to physical generic SCSI devices on the host you must add a generic SCSI device to the virtual machine Before you begin make sure you have the following required permissions On Windows hosts to access host SCSI devices as generic SCSI devices you must run Workstation as a user with administrator access On Linux hosts generic
247. devices can be a virtual or physical hard disk or DVD or CD ROM drive To add an existing virtual disk to a virtual machine 1 2 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off VMware Inc N A GF A Q Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard On the Hardware Type page select Hard Disk and click Next On the Select a Disk page select Use an existing virtual disk and click Next On the Select an Existing Disk page specify the path name and filename for the existing disk file and click Finish In the virtual machine settings editor click OK Remove a Virtual Disk from a Virtual Machine Removing a virtual disk disconnects it from a virtual machine Removing the virtual disk does not delete files from the host file system Use the procedure in this topic to map or mount the disk to a host machine After you remove the disk from the virtual machine you can map or mount it to a host and copy data from the guest to the host without powering on the virtual machine or starting Workstation To remove a virtual disk from a virtual machine 1 2 3 4 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab select a virtual disk and click Remove The virtual disk is disconnected from virtual machine After you remove the disk from the virtu
248. devices configured for the virtual machine m Set an expiration date for an ACE instance You set policies with the policy editor You can change some or all of the policies for an ACE instance at any time by editing the policies and creating and distributing a new package that contains only the policies For ACE enabled virtual machines that ACE Management Server manages you can dynamically change some policies and deploy those changes to the ACE instances on users machines Set Policies for ACE Instances Policy settings relate to security settings for daily use of ACE instances For information about encryption settings see Edit Deployment Settings on page 413 Before you can use the policy editor on a virtual machine you must enable ACE features for that virtual machine See Overview of Creating and Deploying ACE Packages on page 370 To set policies for ACE instances 1 Select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose VM gt ACE gt Policies 2 Inthe policy editor select an item in the Policy list 3 Complete the settings panel for that policy and either click OK or select another policy to edit For assistance with the fields on a settings panel click Help Setting Access Control Policies Activation and authentication policies control access to installed ACE packages and the instances created from those packages The activation policy specifies who can access 374 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and
249. difier gt It has no default For example to use Ctrl Shift F9 to switch to the host operating system add the following line to the config ini file or modify its value if the option is already listed FullScreenSwitch hostDirectKey 0x78 0x6 Other Entries in the Global Configuration File The global configuration file config ini entries in Table 19 2 are optional They enable you to control certain functions of the virtual machine that are important in 360 VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts work environments where virtual machines need to be isolated from each other and from the host computer Table 19 2 Optional Global Configuration File Entries Default Option Description Setting Isolation tools copy enable This option determines whether data in TRUE Isolation tools paste enable one virtual machine or the host operating system can be copied in a way that allows it to be transferred to another virtual machine or to the host operating system Isolation tools paste enable This option determines whether data TRUE Isolation tools copy enable copied in one virtual machine or the host operating system can be pasted into another virtual machine or the host operating system Isolation tools HGFS disable The value of this option determines FALSE whether virtual machines can be configured with shared folders for sharing files among virtual machines and with the host co
250. ding drag the slider to the desired position in the recording The virtual machine reverts to the nearest previous snapshot and starts replaying until it reaches the target location During the replay the slider remains at the same point and the remaining playback time appears in red above the Current Replay Position Slider On Windows you can zoom in and out of the recording using the zoom controls On Linux use the zoomed in auto scroll function to preview the recording When the recording reaches the Current Replay Position Slider the recording is paused and the virtual machine reverts to the normal state Creating an Execution Trace File of a Recording Trace files are detailed logs produced by a program that are helpful for debugging When you make an execution trace file of a recording you can view all the events that occurred during the recording 240 VMware Inc Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity To create an execution trace file of a recording 1 Start play back of a recording as described in Replaying a Recording on page 239 To make an execution trace file of the recording click inside the virtual machine so that keyboard events are grabbed by the virtual machine and press the T key trace key A trace file is created in the directory where this virtual machine s configuration vmx file is stored The filename is ReplayTrace lt timestamp gt gz where lt timestamp gt is th
251. disc burning software to create the discs the name you enter for each disc must be the same as the name of the folder the wizard creates to hold that disc s contents for example DISC1 DISC2 To begin the packaging process click Next on the Package Summary page Package creation take a substantial amount of time especially for packages that include large virtual machines or instance customization settings During the instance customization stage if the guest operating system does not shut down after approximately 10 minutes the problem might be that the Sysprep tools were not in place The operation is cancelled and an error message tells you that instance customization failed The Package Creation Complete page appears when the process is complete It lists the location of the newly created package and provides a link to the package directory Depending on which distribution method you chose do one of the following VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances m Ifyou created a single file for network distribution copy the file to the appropriate location on a network m Ifyou created one or more files for distribution on CD or DVD use disc burning software to create the discs The disc label you enter in your disc burning software for each disc must be the same as the name of the folder the wizard creates to hold that disc s contents m Burn the contents of each disc onto the top level of the disc The packag
252. dows Hosts Only on page 351 Tools tab Lets you specify whether you want to automatically update VMware Tools on Windows and Linux guest systems when a new version becomes available On Linux hosts you must be running Workstation as root in order to change the settings on the Tools tab of the preferences editor VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine by Workstation See Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools on page 103 Devices tab Windows hosts only By default the autorun feature mentioned on this tab is disabled Therefore you need to manually connect to the CD ROM drive by using the VM gt Removable Devices menu See Use Removable Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 166 In addition to the cross references mentioned in this list more information about the settings on each tab is available in the Workstation online help Click Help in the Preferences dialog box The settings on the following tabs apply only to the user currently logged on to the host computer Workspace tab Input tab Hot Keys tab Priority tab and Tools tab VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics The settings on the following tabs apply no matter which virtual machine is running or which user is logged on to the host computer Display tab Memory tab Lockout tab and Devices tab Introduc
253. dy to Create Virtual Machine page if you want to change or add virtual hardware devices click Customize Hardware The virtual hardware settings editor appears For more information about the settings panels in this editor click Help in the dialog box Click Finish If you entered easy install information the unattended installation of the operating system and VMware Tools begins After the virtual machine is created if you did use the easy install feature continue on to Install a Guest Operating System Manually on page 96 Install a Guest Operating System Manually Perform the procedure described in this topic if you did not select the easy install feature when using the New Virtual Machine wizard 96 VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine A new virtual machine is like a physical computer with a blank hard disk Before you can use it you need to partition and format the virtual disk and install an operating system The operating system s installation program might handle the partitioning and formatting steps for you Installing a guest operating system inside your VMware Workstation virtual machine is essentially the same as installing it on a physical computer NOTE Workstation supports 64 bit guest operating systems only in Workstation versions 5 5 and later and only on host machines with supported processors For the list of processors Workstation supports for 64 bit guest operating systems see
254. e Default is 0 which means FALSE Controls whether the VMware Tools daemon periodically every minute checks whether the guest operating system s time is lagging behind the host s If so the guest s clock is moved forward to match the host s clock If the guest s clock is ahead of the host s clock the periodic time synchronization does not correct it Using the synctime command line option is equivalent to using the time synchronization option on the Options tab of the VMware Toolbox which sets a property called tools syncTime in the virtual machine s configuration vmx file time synchronize tools enable Default is 1 which means TRUE Controls whether toggling the synctime option to 1 causes an immediate one time synchronization to occur Unlike the normal periodic time sync which can move the guest clock only forward this special time synchronization can move the guest clock either forward or backward time synchronize tools startup Default is 1 which means TRUE Controls whether the VMware Tools daemon conducts a single time synchronization when it starts up This special time sync can be either forward or backward in time The VMware Tools daemon starts whenever the guest operating system is booted To keep a fictitious time in your guest so that the guest is never synchronized with the host disable time synchronization altogether See Disable Time Synchronization by Editing the Virtual Machine Configuration F
255. e If your Linux distribution automatically mounted the CD ROMs you do not need to use the unmount portion of the command If you attempt to install an RPM installation over a tar installation or the reverse the installer detects the previous installation and must convert the installer database format before continuing Configure VMware Tools Depending on whether you are using the tar installer or the RPM installer do one of the following m For the tar installer enter the following commands to run the installer VMware Inc 10 Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools cd vmware tools distrib mmare install pl Respond to the questions the command line wizard displays on the screen Press Enter to accept the default value The configuration file vmware config tools pl runs after the installer file finishes running m For the RPM installer enter the following command to run the configuration file vmware config tools pl Respond to the questions the command line wizard displays on the screen Press Enter to accept the default value Log out of the root account exit Start your graphical environment In an X terminal enter the following command to start the VMware Tools control panel vmware toolbox amp To change the default VMware Tools configuration options see Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Install VMware Tools in a Solaris Guest Before you begin make sure the virtual
256. e Inc 303 Workstation User s Manual 304 4 order send one DNS request at a time in order of the name servers rotate send one DNS request at a time rotate through the DNS servers burst send to three servers and wait for the first one to respond policy order Timeout in seconds before retrying DNS request timeout 2 Retries before giving up on DNS request retries 3 Automatically detect the DNS servers not supported in Windows NT autodetect 1 List of DNS servers to use Up to three may be specified nameserverl 208 23 14 2 nameserver2 63 93 12 3 nameserver3 208 23 14 4 netbios This section applies only to Windows Timeout for NBNS queries nbnsTimeout 2 Number of retries for each NBNS query nbnsRetries 3 Timeout for NBDS queries nbdsTimeout 3 incomingtcp 4 Use these with care anyone can enter into your virtual machine through these FTP both active and passive FTP is always enabled ftp localhost 8887 8887 192 168 27 128 21 WEB make sure that if you are using named webhosting names point to your host not to guest And if you are forwarding port other 4 than 80 make sure that your server copes with mismatched port number in Host header lynx http localhost 8888 8888 192 168 27 128 80 SSH ssh p 8889 root localhost 8889 192 168 27 128 22 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking incomingud
257. e choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware select the hard disk and click Utilities gt Disconnect You can now power on any virtual machine that uses this disk 186 VMware Inc Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine Suspending a virtual machine lets you save the current state so that you can continue work later from the same state Taking a snapshot lets you preserve the state of the virtual machine so you can return to the same state repeatedly This chapter includes the following topics m Using the Suspend and Resume Features on page 187 m Using Snapshots on page 189 Using the Suspend and Resume Features You can use the suspend and resume features to save the current state of a virtual machine When you resume any applications you were running when you suspended the virtual machine are resumed in their running state and the content is the same as when you suspended the virtual machine The speed of the suspend and resume operations depends on how much data changed during the time that the virtual machine was running In general the first suspend operation takes longer than later suspend operations When you resume and do additional work in the virtual machine you cannot return to the state the virtual machine was in at the time you suspended To preserve the state of the virtual machine so that you can return to the same state repeatedly take a snapshot as described in Using Snapshots on page 189 Use
258. e code as the Y key on an English keyboard because they are in the same position on the keyboard Most keys have one byte scan codes but some keys have two byte scan codes with prefix Oxe0 Internally Workstation uses a simplified version of the PC scan code that is a single nine bit numeric value called a v scan code A v scan code is written as a three digit hexadecimal number The first digit is 0 or 1 For example the Ctrl key on the left side of the keyboard has a one byte scan code 0x1d Its v scan code is 0x01d The Ctrl key scan code on the right side of the keyboard is two bytes Oxe0 0x1d Its v scan code is Ox11d For an XFree86 server on a PC there is a one to one mapping from X key codes to PC scan codes or v scan codes which is what Workstation really uses When Workstation is hosted on an XFree86 server and runs a local virtual machine it uses the built in mapping from X key codes to v scan codes This mapping is keyboard independent and should be correct for most languages In other cases not an XFree86 server or not a local server Workstation must map keysyms to v scan codes by using a set of keyboard specific tables An X server uses a two level encoding of keys which includes the X key code and the keysym An X key code is a one byte value The assignment of key codes to keys depends on the X server implementation and the physical keyboard As a result an X application normally cannot use key codes directly Instea
259. e upgrade it cannot preserve mappings created with Workstation 4 5 x or 6 0 x To use Workstation 6 5 to upgrade virtual machines see Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 VMware Inc 53 Workstation User s Manual 54 Upgrading to a Windows Vista Host This topic provides instructions for various upgrade scenarios that involve Windows Vista During the upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista the location of virtual machines might get changed The Windows Vista upgrade uses the registry to map the virtual machines to a new location by using the following paths m On Windows XP the default virtual machine location before the upgrade is C Documents and Settings lt user gt My Virtual Machines m On Windows Vista the default virtual machine location after the upgrade is C Users lt user gt Documents My Virtual Machines After the upgrade is complete if the Favorites list in Workstation does not work correctly you can remove the virtual machines from it and add them again Upgrade Workstation 5 on Windows XP to Workstation 6 5 on Windows Vista As part of the upgrade you must uninstall the Workstation 5 application but you do not need to uninstall Workstation 5 virtual machines To upgrade Workstation 5 on Windows XP to Workstation 6 5 on Windows Vista 1 On the Windows XP host use the Control Panel s Add Remove Programs item to uninstall Workstation 5 x 2 Upgrade the operating system to
260. e 235 To add a marker during recording click Add Marker in the recording dialog box Aside from the markers you add markers are automatically added according to the frequency you set by using the virtual machine settings editor See Enabling Record Replay for a Virtual Machine on page 235 When you want to stop recording click the Stop button in the recording dialog box or in the toolbar Optional On Windows while making a recording you can use the minimized record control to either stop a recording or add a marker Complete the dialog box that appears and click Save To change the name of the recording add or change the description or delete the recording choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager Replaying a Recording To replay a recording 1 2 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine If it is powered on and you do not want to lose the current state of the virtual machine take a snapshot of it For instructions see Take a Snapshot on page 195 To play the latest recording of the virtual machine do one of the following m Click the Replay lt name_of _recording gt button in the toolbar m Choose VM gt Replay gt Replay lt name_of _recording gt m On Windows while replaying a recording you can use the controls in the minimized replay control To play an earlier recording use the snapshot manager as follows a Choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager b Select the recording
261. e 447 Install an ACE Client License on page 448 Quit VMware Player on page 449 Troubleshooting Tools on page 450 Installing an ACE Package on a Windows Host If an end user s computer does not already have VMware ACE or VMware Player installed the first time you install an ACE package VMware Player is installed along with the ACE instance You can install ACE instances on one host at a time or you can use the silent installation features of the Microsoft Windows Installer to quickly install an ACE instance on multiple computers Install an ACE Instance on a Single Windows Host If VMware Player is not already installed on the machine the installation program installs it before installing the virtual machine files that make up the ACE instance Before you begin consider the following prerequisites m Make sure the host computer has enough disk space for the ACE instance VMware Inc 441 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 442 If this is the first installation of an ACE instance on the user machine a user with administrative privileges must run the installation Only a user with administrative privileges can install and uninstall VMware Player If the ACE instance includes a host policy a user with administrative privileges must run the installation A host policy is a host network access policy or a policy that restricts which virtual machines can run on a host See Setting Network Access Policies
262. e 448 Change the ACE Client License 449 Quit VMware Player 449 Troubleshooting Tools 450 ACE Tools vmware acetool Command Line Tool 450 Respond to Hot Fix Requests 452 Troubleshooting Setup Issues 453 Workstation Command Line Reference 455 Startup Options for Workstation and Virtual Machines 455 Using Startup Options in a Windows Shortcut 456 Command Line Application for Operating Virtual Machines 457 Examples for vmrun 460 Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger 463 Installation Requirements for the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger Environment 464 Host System Requirements 465 Eclipse Requirements 466 Virtual Machine Requirements 466 Managing Virtual Machine Launch Configurations 469 Use Application Configurations to Start Applications in a Virtual Machine 469 Use Application Configurations to Attach to Applications Running in a Virtual Machine 471 Delete Configurations 472 Running and Debugging Applications in Virtual Machines 472 Start an Application Debugging Session in a Virtual Machine 472 Start an Application in a Virtual Machine Without Debugging 473 Attach the Debugger to an Application Running in a Virtual Machine 473 Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger 475 Configuration Options When Starting an Application in a Virtual Machine 476 Configuration Options When Attaching to a Process Running in a Virtual Machine 477 Setting Up the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Environment 477 Microsoft
263. e Background Snapshots 192 Exclude a Virtual Disk from Snapshots 192 Snapshot Manager Overview 193 Take a Snapshot 195 Rename a Snapshot or Recording 196 Restore an Earlier State from a Snapshot 196 Delete a Snapshot or a Recording 197 Take or Revert to a Snapshot at Power Off 197 Snapshots and Workstation 4 Virtual Machines 198 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines 199 The Virtual Machine s Universal Unique Identifier 199 UUID Options When You Move a Virtual Machine 200 Specify a UUID for a Virtual Machine 201 Cloning a Virtual Machine 201 Uses of a Clone 202 Types of Clones 202 Creating Clones 203 Moving a Virtual Machine 205 Hosts with Different Hardware 206 Move a Virtual Machine to a New Location or a New Host 207 Moving an Older Virtual Machine 209 Moving Linked Clones 209 Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users 209 Sharing Virtual Machines with VMware Player 210 Start and Exit VMware Player 210 Setting Up Virtual Machines for Use with VMware Player 211 Using Disks and Disk Drives 213 Virtual Machine Disk Storage 213 Benefits of Using Virtual Disks 214 Physical Disks 216 8 VMware Inc Contents Virtual Disk Maintenance Tasks 217 Defragment Virtual Disks 217 Shrink a Virtual Disk 218 Adding Virtual and Physical Disks to a Virtual Machine 219 Create a Virtual Disk and Add It to a Virtual Machine 219 Add an Existing Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine 220 Remove a Virtual Disk from a Virtual Machine 221 Using Physica
264. e IDE disk or SCSI For information about SCSI disk requirements see IDE and SCSI Disk Types on page 215 Workstation 6 virtual machines can use up to 4 IDE devices and up to 60 SCSI devices Any of these devices can be a virtual or physical hard disk or DVD or CD ROM drive Optional To exclude disks from snapshots in the Mode section select Independent for the mode and choose one of the following options m Persistent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk m Nonpersistent Changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to a snapshot See Information Captured by Snapshots on page 191 On the Specify Disk Capacity page set the capacity for the new virtual disk You can set a size between 0 1GB and 950GB for a virtual disk See Disk Size and Files on page 214 On the Specify Disk File page accept the default filename and location or browse to and select a different location and click Finish The wizard creates the new virtual disk It appears to your guest operating system as a new blank hard disk In the virtual machine settings editor click OK Use the guest operating system tools to partition and format the new drive for use Add an Existing Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine You can reconnect an existing virtual disk that was removed from a virtual machine Workstation 6 virtual machines can use up to 4 IDE devices and up to 60 SCSI devices Any of these
265. e Virtual Disk Manager VMware Virtual Disk Manager is a Workstation utility that allows you to create manage and modify virtual disk files from the command line or in scripts You can enlarge a virtual disk so that its maximum capacity is larger than it was when you created it This is useful if you need more disk space in a given virtual machine but do not want to add another virtual disk or use ghosting software to transfer the data on a virtual disk to a larger virtual disk You cannot do this with physical hard drives You can also change disk types When you create a virtual machine you specify how disk space is allocated as follows m All space for the virtual disk is allocated in advance This corresponds to the preallocated disk type for Virtual Disk Manager m Space allocated for the virtual disk begins small and grows as needed This corresponds to the growable disk type for Virtual Disk Manager If you allocate all the disk space for a virtual disk but later need to reclaim some hard disk space on the host you can convert the preallocated virtual disk into a growable disk The new virtual disk is still large enough to contain all the data in the original virtual disk You can also change whether the virtual disk is stored in a single file or split into 2GB files These features and the ability to use scripting to automate management of virtual disks were added to Workstation in version 5 0 See the VMware technical note abo
266. e containing a virtual machine configuration It is created by the New Virtual Machine wizard It is used by VMware Workstation to identify and run a specific virtual machine virtual machine settings editor A point and click editor used to view and modify the settings of a virtual machine after its initial creation See also New Virtual Machine wizard virtual network A network between virtual machines with no dependence on real world hardware connections For example you can create a virtual network between a virtual machine and a host that has no external network connections You can also create a LAN segment for communications between virtual machines on a team See also LAN segment team VMware Inc 499 Workstation User s Manual Y Z 500 virtual network editor A point and click editor used to view and modify the networking settings for the virtual networks created by VMware Workstation VMware Player Free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation VMware Server or ESX Server and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery disk formats VMware Tools A suite of utilities and drivers that enhances the performance and functionality of your guest operating system Key features of VMware Tools include some or all of the following depending on your guest operating system a
267. e directory m Allocate all virtual disk space rather than allowing the disk space to gradually grow to the maximum m Split the virtual disk into 2 GB files VMware Inc 87 Workstation User s Manual 88 Guest Operating System Selection The New Virtual Machine wizard prompts you to specify which type of operating system you plan to install in the guest You can choose Windows 2000 Professional Red Hat Linux 4 Ubuntu 64 bit and many others Workstation uses this information to do the following m Select appropriate default values such as the amount of memory to allocate m Name files associated with the virtual machine m Adjust settings for optimal performance m Work around special behaviors and bugs within a guest operating system If the operating system you plan to use is not listed select Other for both guest operating system and version For some Windows operating systems if you supply the installation media and the wizard detects it the operating system and VMware Tools are installed automatically after the virtual machine is created See Easy Install Feature for Windows Guest Operating Systems on page 86 NOTE Workstation supports 64 bit guest operating systems only in Workstation versions 5 5 and later and only on host machines with supported processors For the list of processors Workstation supports for 64 bit guest operating systems see PC Hardware on page 26 Virtual Machine Locati
268. e format ovf and ova files and that use VMware virtual hard disks vmdk files or Microsoft Virtual PC or Virtual Server virtual hard disks vhd files m Other virtual machines and system images Acronis True Image 9 tib files StorageCraft ShadowProtect spf files Microsoft Virtual PC 7 x and higher vmc files Any version of Microsoft Virtual Server vmc files Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery formerly LiveState Recovery 6 5 and 7 0 LiveState Recovery 3 0 and 6 0 sv2i files m Norton Ghost images 9 x and higher sv2i files The operating system on the source Microsoft Virtual PC or Virtual Server virtual machine must be a Windows 2000 or later guest operating system supported by the intended VMware platform for example Workstation 4 5 or 6 For a list of supported operating systems see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site NOTE Virtual machines from Macintosh versions of Virtual PC are not supported Operating System Compatibility To import a virtual or physical machine or a third party image the operating system on which Workstation is installed must be equal to or greater than the operating system on the source machine For example if Workstation is installed on a Windows 2000 machine you cannot import a virtual machine from a Windows XP or Windows 2003 source machine Importing from Various Sources Keep these points in mind when usin
269. e installer expects to find only the contents of the folder and not the folder itself at the root level on the disc If you burn the folder itself onto the disc when you attempt to install the contents of the second or subsequent discs on the user s machine the error 1309 Error reading from file lt filename gt appears View Package Properties and Add Notes Use the Package Properties dialog box to view properties of the packages that you created Also add or edit notes that appear in the summary view of the ACE enabled virtual machine To view package properties and add notes 1 2 3 Open the ACE enabled virtual machine Choose View gt Current View gt Summary In the Package History section of the view double click the package You might need to scroll down to find the Package History section Click the tabs to view the properties Click the Notes tab to add or edit notes Existing notes might have been added when the package was created using the New Package wizard These notes are not be seen by end users They are visible only in the Workstation window Perform an End to End Deployment Test Perform an end to end test to deploy anew ACE package rather than a package update Also use an end to end test if using preview mode is not appropriate VMware Inc 431 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 432 Because Workstation runs only on Windows hosts you cannot use preview mode to run ACE instances as the
270. e same value If the script returns a different value the virtual machine is not decrypted and the user sees an error message The script may return any value To ensure best security a value that includes only printable characters should be at least 32 bytes long For binary data the value should be at least 16 bytes long to ensure proper entropy The output is sent to the StdOut file The following example is written in C It is installed by Workstation as sampleAuth c Compile it with a C compiler if you want to run it HH SH HH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HH HH HHH HH VMware Sample Script Sample script for ACE script authentication Description This sample script looks up the user as defined in the environment variable TEST_USERNAME and returns seed data that is used to make a key for authenticationpurposes It assumes that the username is defined in the environment variable TEST_USERNAME a ficticious environment variable used for this sample and returns the seed data from a harcoded map of username to seed data Input to script None Returns if successful user is correctly authenticated 1 if TEST_USERNAME is not set or the user is unrecognized Expected output Seed data for creating script authentication key on stdout Notes If the script returns success its output will be used to create a key Therefore it is important that the output of this script be unique for each user and that there is enough data to ma
271. e status section select the Connect at Power On check box c Inthe Connection section select Use ISO image and browse to the windows iso file located in the directory where you installed Workstation d Click OK 2 Optional In the guest operating system suppress prompts about installing unsigned drivers If you are installing VMware Tools from a beta or RC release candidate version of Workstation you are asked to confirm the installation of unsigned drivers Follow these steps to suppress these confirmation prompts VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools For all Windows systems except Windows Vista a On the virtual machine s desktop or Start menu right click My Computer and choose Properties b Click the Hardware tab and click Driver Signing The Driver Signing dialog box appears c Click Ignore click OK and click OK in the second dialog box For Windows Vista a On the Start menu right click Computer and choose Properties b Click Advanced system settings gt Hardware gt Windows Update driver settings c Click Never check for drivers when I connect a new device click OK and click OK in the second dialog box 3 Open a command prompt and use the following command to install some or all of the VMware Tools components msiexec i D VMware Tools msi ADDLOCAL ALL REMOVE lt component gt an In this command you can optionally use REMOVE lt component gt if you do not want
272. e time at which you pressed the T key The speed at which the recording plays slows considerably while the trace file is being made To end the trace file either press the T key again or click the Stop button in the Replay toolbar Otherwise the trace file ends when the recording finishes playing If you press the T key to end the trace file before the recording ends and then press T again another trace file is created Maintenance Tasks for Using Recordings Depending on the length of a recording the number of its periodic snapshots and the number of recordings the disk space used for the record replay feature can be considerable When you create recordings Workstation goes into full debugging mode The topics in this section provide guidance for addressing these issues Deleting a Recording Recordings can consume large amounts of disk space depending on the activities of the virtual machine and the length of the recording Delete recordings you do not need to free disk space To delete a recording 1 2 3 4 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager In the snapshot manager window select the recording you want to delete Right click and choose Delete gt Recording and Children 241 Workstation User s Manual 242 If you select a recording and click the Delete button the selected recording is removed and the corresponding snapshots in the recording remain inta
273. ebar The Favorites list lets you organize and access frequently used items Figure 4 7 Favorites List in the Sidebar Sidebar x E gt Powered On powered on icon j ACE_VM EB Windows XP Professional Wks 6 Favorites o E Windows NT Open right click menu cae Me tse 9 B Solaris vMs suspended icon ________ vista vm Power On Ctri 8 B Ubuntu Ms C Red Hat 3 unavailable B Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 virtual machine vista vias WKS 4 x VMs Take Snapshot v4 XP YM Revert to Snapshot 3 Teams 433 Development VMs 433 Team QA VMs Snapshot Manager 9 Cloned Virtual Machines 18 Linked Clone of Windows gt i E Full Clone of Win2k Pro linked clone lcon__ A Linked Clone of Red Hat 3 isi Recent ACE Management Servers Workstation 4 V team icon Clone Upgrade or Change Version Rename Remove from Favorites Delete from Disk Message Log Settings 72 VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics The Favorites list provides the following benefits Fast access Quickly access frequently used items With your virtual machines and teams on the Favorites list you can open them without browsing the host file system Also like browser bookmarks Favorites list icons can be organized in folders added rearranged or deleted Status Different icons indicate the status of virtual machines and teams A Favorites list icon indicate
274. eceives a Power Off command data corruption might occur Similarly you can configure the Reset button to work the same way as a reset switch so that it resets the virtual machine abruptly Or you can set the Reset button so that the VMware Tools service sends a restart signal to the guest operating system It then shuts down gracefully and restarts Not all guest operating systems respond to a shutdown signal from the Power Off button or to a restart signal from the Reset button If your operating system does not VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines respond to the signal shut down or restart from the operating system as you would with a physical machine To configure the Power Off and Reset options for a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be powered on or off 2 Choose VM gt Settings 3 Click the Options tab and select Power 4 Inthe Power Controls section of the dialog box specify whether you want the Power Off button to shut down the guest gracefully or to abruptly power the virtual machine off The selection you make is reflected in the tooltip you see when you place your mouse pointer over the Power Off toolbar button 5 Specify how you want the Reset button to work 6 Ifyou want to change any of the other settings and need more information click Help For UNIX guests if you want to pass X toolkit options when you power on a virtual machine see Append
275. econd user from powering on the virtual machine When a virtual machine powers off it removes the locking subdirectories and their lock files If it cannot remove these locking controls one or more stale lock files might remain For example if the host machine fails before the virtual machine removes its locking controls stale lock files remain When the virtual machine restarts it scans any locking subdirectories for stale lock files and when possible removes them A lock file is considered stale if both of the following conditions are true m The lock file was created on the same host that is now running the virtual machine m The process that created the lock is no longer running If either of these conditions is not true a dialog box warns you that the virtual machine cannot be powered on You can delete the locking directories and their lock files manually Locks also protect physical disk partitions However the host operating system is not aware of this locking convention and thus does not respect it For this reason VMware recommends that the physical disk for a virtual machine not be installed on the same physical disk as the host operating system IDE and SCSI Disk Types Virtual disks can be set up as IDE disks for any guest operating system They can be set up as SCSI disks for any guest operating system with a driver for the LSI Logic or BusLogic SCSI adapter available in a Workstation virtual machine You determine w
276. ed M Guest operating system Qi Snapshot Replay Microsoft Windows A Guest Isolation Enabled Enabled C Linux Tools On next power on C Novell Netware E Remote Display Disabled C Sun Solaris E Appliance View Enabled C Other E Advanced Normal Normal Version windows Vista d m Working directory Suspend files and snapshots will be stored here C Documents and Settings My Docu Browse Virtual keyboard IV Use enhanced virtual keyboard Cancel Help The settings for the virtual machine Options tab are discussed later in this manual in the task specific topics and procedures where you would use them To display online help for an item you select in the Options list click Help in the settings panel Closing Virtual Machines and Exiting Workstation When you close a virtual machine or team and when you exit Workstation if any virtual machines are still powered on you are prompted to specify one of the following actions to take m Continue running the virtual machine in the background If a virtual machine continues running after you exit Workstation you can still interact with it through VNC or some other service m Suspend the virtual machine The suspend operation saves the state of the virtual machine See Using the Suspend and Resume Features on page 187 m Power the virtual machine off If you configured the power operation to do a soft power off a VMware Tools scr
277. en choose Legacy Diskette B and use the plus and minus keys on the numerical keypad to select the type of floppy drive to use c Press F10 to save the settings Connect a CD ROM DVD or Floppy Drive to an Image File You can connect an existing virtual CD ROM DVD or floppy drive to an image file ISO file rather than the physical drive on the host An ISO image file resembles a CD ROM to your guest operating system and even appears as a CD ROM in Windows Explorer In some host configurations the virtual machine cannot boot from the installation CD ROM To avoid that problem create an ISO image file from the installation CD ROM To connect a CD ROM or floppy drive to an image file 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Choose VM gt Settings 4 On the Hardware tab select a DVD CD ROM or floppy drive 5 Do one of the following m Fora DVD or CD ROM drive select Use ISO Image and specify the path name and filename m Fora floppy drive m If the file already exists select Use floppy Image and specify the path name and filename m To create an image file click Create browse to the directory where you plan to store the floppy image file supply a filename and click Save on Windows hosts or Open on Linux hosts 6 Optional To make the file read only select the Read Only check box 7 Click OK VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives Using VMwar
278. en us vstudio aa964140 aspx question46 Supported Languages The C C Native and Managed C and Visual Basic languages are supported VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Configure the Runtime Library Setting for C Applications When you debug on a physically remote machine or in a virtual machine the application might not start if the runtime library setting is set to certain values If you encounter this problem change the C runtime library setting For additional information on C libraries see http msdn2 microsoft com en us library ms235624 aspx To configure the Visual Studio runtime library setting 1 Choose Project gt Properties 2 Expand Configuration Properties gt C C and select Code Generation 3 Set Code Generation to Runtime Library property to Multi threaded MT or Multi threaded Debug MTd Host System Requirements The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger can run on most Windows host operating systems supported by Workstation 6 5 listed in 32 bit on page 28 and 64 bit on page 29 On Windows Server 2003 only Enterprise Edition SP1 and R2 are supported If remote debugging is not working on a Windows Vista host try the following m Manually configure the firewall to allow traffic from Visual Studio m Run Visual Studio with Administrator permissions For more information see http msdn2 microsoft com en us vstudio aa972193 aspx Virt
279. enabled kernel in the guest operating system you will see improved performance if you enable paravirtual support in the virtual machine VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine To get and enable a paravirtualized kernel 1 To get a VMI enabled kernel download the CD image of Ubuntu 7 04 Feisty or later from http www ubuntu com getubuntu download Use the standard image for 32 bit Intel x86 computers VMI is currently 32 bit only 2 Use Workstation s New Virtual Machine wizard to create a Workstation 6 or higher virtual machine with the guest operating system type Ubuntu See Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard on page 92 Make sure the hardware version is Workstation 6 3 After you finish creating the virtual machine enable paravirtual kernel support as follows a From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens b On the Options tab click Advanced and in the Settings section select the Enable VMware paravirtual kernel support check box Do not close the virtual machine settings editor 4 Set the virtual machine to use the ISO image you downloaded in Step 1 a On the Hardware tab select CD ROM and in the Connection section select Use ISO image b Browse to and select the ISO image you downloaded in Step 1 c Click OK to save your settings and close the virtual machine settings editor 5 Power on the virtual machine and install the Linux operating
280. er s Manual This example tells the Samba server to listen to and use both the ethO and vmnet1 interfaces which are the interfaces used by bridged and host only networking respectively Use Samba Without Network Access To use Samba without network access 1 Open the configuration file etc samba smb conf 2 Add the following line to the configuration file and save the changes interfaces vmnet 3 Restart Samba 306 VMware Inc Configuring Video and Sound The following sections provide information on configuring the video display and sound for VMware Workstation This chapter includes the following topics m Setting Screen Color Depth on page 307 m Support for Direct3D Graphics on page 308 m Configuring Sound on page 310 Setting Screen Color Depth The number of screen colors available in the guest operating system depends on the screen color setting of the host operating system Virtual machines support 16 color VGA mode a m 8 bit pseudocolor m 16 bits per pixel 16 significant bits per pixel m 32 bits per pixel 24 significant bits per pixel If the host is in 15 bit color mode the guest operating system s color setting controls offer 15 bit mode in place of 16 bit mode If the host is in 24 bit color mode the guest operating system s color setting controls offer 24 bit mode in place of 32 bit mode If you run a guest operating system set for a greater number of colors than yo
281. er the following command cp VMware pLayer x86_64 tar gz tmp Enter the following command to change to the directory to which you copied the file cd tmp Enter one of the following commands to unpack the archive m tar zxf VMware pLayer i386 tar gz m tar zxf VMware pLayer x86_64 tar gz Enter the following command to change to the installation directory cd vmware player distrib Enter the following command to run the installation program mmare install pl Accept the default directories for the binary files library files manual files documentation files and the initiation script Select Yes when prompted to run the vmware config pl file and accept the default values for the remaining prompts 445 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 10 If you do not enable host only networking when you install VMware Player you cannot allow a virtual machine to use both bridged and host only networking When installation is completed enter the following command to exit from the root account exit Install the ACE Instance on a Single Linux Host Only the user who installs the ACE instance or a user with necessary permissions such as root is allowed to run that ACE instance If VMware Player is not already installed on the machine it is automatically installed when you run the ACE package s vmware install pl as root or sudo Before you begin consider the following prerequisites Make sure the host computer has enough di
282. eration you want to perform do one of the following m To power off the team select it and choose Team gt Power gt Power Off Depending on how you configured power operations the guest operating system might be shut down before the virtual machine is powered off See Configure Power Off and Reset Options for a Virtual Machine on page 152 m To close the team select it and choose File gt Close VMware Inc Chapter 14 Configuring Teams Depending on how Workstation preferences are set if any of the team s virtual machines are still powered on you might see a prompt For information about the options shown in the prompt see Closing Virtual Machines and Exiting Workstation on page 81 Delete a Team Before you can delete a team you must power off all virtual machines that are members of the team See Power Off or Close a Team on page 248 When you delete a team you can choose to delete m Only the team retaining the virtual machines in the team m The team and the virtual machines in the team To remove a team from the Workstation window rather than deleting it see Remove a Virtual Machine from a Team on page 251 V CAUTION Deleting a team permanently removes the team files from the host file system and removes associated LAN segments from all virtual machines Deleting the team s virtual machines along with the team removes the virtual machine files permanently To delete a team 1 Sele
283. ere is no limit on the output speed which is the speed at which the virtual machine sends data through the virtual serial port In practice the output speed depends on how fast the application at the other end of the pipe reads data inbound to it To change the input speed of the serial connection 1 Use the guest operating system to configure the serial port for the highest setting supported by the application you are running in the virtual machine 2 Power off the virtual machine and close the Workstation window 3 Usea text editor to add the following line to your virtual machine s configuration vmx file serial lt n gt pipe charTimePercent lt x gt lt n gt is the number of the serial port starting from 0 So the first serial port is serial0 lt x gt is a positive integer that specifies the time taken to transmit a character expressed as a percentage of the default speed set for the serial port in the guest For example a setting of 200 forces the port to take twice as long per character or send data at half the default speed A setting of 50 forces the port to take only half as long per character or send data at twice the default speed Assuming that the serial port speed is set appropriately in the guest operating system experiment with this setting Start with a value of 100 and gradually decrease it until you find the highest speed at which your connection works reliably Debugging over a Virtual Serial Port
284. ervers so that the zone detection mechanism can function properly To use the Network Access wizard to configure network access 1 2 In the policy editor select Network Access Select Restrict network access of the ACE instance and its host and click Quick Setup Complete the wizard Depending on which configuration type you choose a new zone might be added to the Network Access settings panel and new rulesets might appear in the Host Network Access and Guest Network Access columns in the table Optional To view or edit the zones or rulsets you created with the wizard click the zone or ruleset name in the table on the Network Access settings panel When you use the Network Access wizard to create an internal zone choosing the Laptop Configuration option enables you to specify the network address domain and subdomains If you want to also configure DNS DHCP WINS or gateway servers use the zone editor See Guidelines for Specifying Zone Conditions on page 386 Guidelines for Specifying Zone Conditions Zone conditions describe the characteristics of a network zone Workstation examines the networks that are directly connected to network adapters on the host computer to see if a match exists for all the criteria for any adapter in any of the zone definitions Details about zone matching are You can specify a zone by using up to six conditions Domain Subnet DNS servers DHCP servers Gateway servers WINS ser
285. es Policy changes are applied when the instance is started after the update package is installed The settings for offline usage include text for warning and timeout messages You can customize messages by adding text to them You cannot edit the existing standard text except by using the controls on the panel to change the number of minutes hours or days shown Policy updates take effect while the instance is running with the following exceptions m Updates to access control policies which include user and group lists passwords and scripts take effect the next time the instance is powered on VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player Updates to policy update frequency policies if set to Only when the ACE instance powers on take effect the next time the instance is powered on Control Which ACE Instances Run on a Host You can set restrictions such as the following Specify whether virtual machines that are not ACE instances can run on the machine This is a host wide policy which requires an administrator to install the package Specify that only ACE instances with a specific creator ID can run on the machine You can control which virtual machines and ACE instances can be run on a host by editing the aceMaster dat file in the virtual machine directory To control which ACE instances run on a host 1 VMware Inc On the administrator machine where Workstation is installed
286. es Spanish fi Finnish fr French fr be French Belgium fr ch French Switzerland is Icelandic it Italian jp Japanses nl be Dutch Belgium no Norwegian pt Polish uk UK English us US English VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices m To use a keyboard map file in another location set the following property to an absolute file path RemoteDispLay vnc keyMapFile 4 Start the virtual machine and connect to it from a VNC client See Use a VNC Client to Connect to a Virtual Machine on page 168 Keyboard Mapping on a Linux Host This topic addresses the following issues and provides additional details on keyboard mapping in Linux m The keyboard works when you run a virtual machine locally but not when you run the same virtual machine with a remote X server m Some of the keys on the keyboard do not work correctly in a virtual machine m Some language specific keyboards do not appear to be supported by Workstation Configure Keyboard Mapping for a Remote X Server Sometimes the keyboard works correctly with a local X server but not when you run the same virtual machine with a remote X server You need to set additional properties in the configuration vmx file Before you begin verify that the remote X server is an XFree86 server running on a PC If the keyboard does not work correctly on an XFree86 server running locally report the problem to VMware technical support For local X ser
287. es and Microsoft Virtual PC or Virtual Server virtual hard disks vhd files In the Conversion wizard you can select ovf files which are the OVF equivalent of a VMware virtual machine configuration file vmx file or you can select ova files open virtual appliance files An ova file stores the configuration file and virtual hard disk file together like a zip file for easy distribution When specifying the location of the OVF appliance you can browse to a directory or use a URL to download the appliance from a Web server You can also download the appliance from a secure HTTPS Web server NOTE When you use a URL the virtual appliance is downloaded before the conversion process starts Downloading can take 15 minutes or longer depending on the size of the file During the download the progress bar in the wizard does not move The Conversion wizard always makes a full clone when it converts an OVF appliance to a virtual machine See Full or Linked Clones on page 143 Dual Boot System Source When you import a physical machine that is part of a dual boot system you can import only the default operating system to which boot ini points To import the nondefault operating system change boot ini to point to the other operating system and reboot before attempting to import Windows NT Virtual Machine Source If the source virtual machine is Windows NT SMP the wizard might require files from service packs or hot
288. es not start after you install it you might need to install a library that is missing because you do not have a full installation of FreeBSD 4 5 Before you begin make sure you have the FreeBSD 4 5 installation CD or access to the ISO image file To install the missing FreeBSD library 1 2 VMware Inc Reboot the guest operating system On the guest in an X terminal enter the following command to start the VMware Tools control panel vmware toolbox amp If the following error message appears the required library was not installed Shared object libc so 3 not found 115 Workstation User s Manual 116 3 4 Insert and mount the FreeBSD 4 5 installation CD or access the ISO image file Change directories and run the installation script cd cdrom compat3x instaLL sh Install VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine Before you begin make sure the virtual machine is powered on and the guest operating system is running To install VMware Tools in a NetWare virtual machine 1 2 On the host choose VM gt Install VMware Tools On the guest load the CD ROM driver so the CD ROM device mounts the ISO image as a volume by doing one of the following m For a NetWare 6 5 virtual machine in the system console enter LOAD CDDVD m For a NetWare 6 0 or NetWare 5 1 virtual machine in the system console enter LOAD CD9660 NSS m Fora NetWare 4 2 virtual machine in the system console enter load cdrom
289. et Autoupdate Options for Each Virtual Machine Use this procedure to override global settings for automatically updating VMware Tools on Linux and Windows guests To set autoupdate options for each virtual machine 1 VMware Inc Select the Linux or Windows virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens Click the Options tab and select Tools Select an update option and click OK For more information about the options click Help 119 Workstation User s Manual Update VMware Tools in Older Windows Virtual Machines When a Microsoft installer performs an update it updates only the components that it finds already installed It does not add new components If you update VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine that was created with Workstation 5 x some new components are not installed Specifically the Workstation 6 component for file sharing and dragging and dropping files is not installed To get the new components you must uninstall the old version of VMware Tools and install the new version of VMware Tools To update VMware Tools in older Windows virtual machines 1 Touninstall the old version of VMware Tools use the Add Remove Programs item in the guest s Control Panel 2 To install the new version of VMware Tools see Installing VMware Tools on page 105 Uninstall VMware Tools Occasionally an update
290. etWare guests The idler program is needed because NetWare servers do not idle the CPU when the operating system is idle As a result a virtual machine takes CPU time from the host regardless of whether the NetWare server software is idle or busy Customizations to VMware Tools Customizations include modifying or writing scripts that run when a virtual machine s power state changes executing commands when you shut down or restart a UNIX guest and passing commands in strings that run in startup scripts How VMware Tools Scripts Affect Power States When VMware Tools is installed if you configure a virtual machine s power controls to use the guest or soft power options one or more default scripts run on the guest whenever you change the power state of the virtual machine You change the power state by using menu commands or by clicking the Suspend Resume Power On and Power Off buttons What the default scripts do depends in part on the guest operating system On most Microsoft Windows guests but not windows NT and Windows Me the default script executed when you suspend a virtual machine releases the IP address of the virtual machine The default script executed when you resume a virtual machine renews the IP address of the virtual machine this affects only virtual machines configured to use DHCP Scripts cannot be run on Windows 95 guests In Windows guests the default scripts are located in the Program Files VMw
291. etween the host network and team virtual machines Monitor multiple virtual machines Use thumbnail views of the virtual machine displays to review activity on team virtual machines simultaneously Managing Teams 246 This section includes procedures for creating deleting opening closing and changing the names of teams Create a Team Use the New Team wizard to create a team and add virtual machines Before creating a team if you plan to add virtual machines to the team while completing the New Team wizard take these actions m Power off any virtual machines that you want to add to the team m Power off any virtual machines that you want to clone if you intend to create a clone and add it to the team You can instead add virtual machines after you create the team by using the Team menu NOTE Workstation version 4 virtual machines cannot be added to teams VMware Inc Chapter 14 Configuring Teams To create a team 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose File gt New gt Team 2 Inthe New Team wizard supply the following information a Enter a name for the team and specify the location of the virtual team files By default the team files are stored in the same directory as virtual machines See Virtual Machine Location on page 88 b Specify whether to add virtual machines to the team now or later If you want to add them now you have the following options m New Virtual Machine Launches
292. f applications data system settings and files Administrators can protect data and ensure compliance with IT policies including software life cycle management and access to data and applications VMware Inc 367 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Key Features of VMware ACE The following sections describe the key features of VMware ACE Manageability m Create standardized hardware independent PC environments and deploy them to any PC throughout the extended enterprise m The virtual rights management interface controls the virtual machine s life cycle security settings network settings system configuration and user interface capabilities m Track instances through the user interface View and manage the activation expiration and other policies of instances managed with ACE Management Server Security m Rules based network access lets you identify and quarantine unauthorized or out of date ACE instances Enable access to the network once the ACE instance complies with IT policies m Tamper resistant computing environment protects the entire ACE instance and package including data and system configuration with seamless encryption m Copy protected computing environment prevents users from copying enterprise information m Roles based SSL communications provides a secure protocol between the ACE Management Server and client m Resource signing lets you specify that ACE Resource files be protected from all tampering U
293. f this time period an error message appears and the package is not installed The administrator can change the package lifetime settings on managed packages even after package creation Change Package Lifetime Settings for a Managed Package If you use the ACE Management Server you can change the package lifetime settings or deactivate a package immediately Make sure Workstation is connected to the ACE Management Server For information about installing and setting up the server see the ACE Management Server User s Guide VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances To change package lifetime settings for a managed package 1 Select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose View gt Current View gt Summary Right click the package you want to change in the Package History section at the bottom of the summary tab Do one of the following m To change the package lifetime settings choose Properties gt Settings m To deactivate the package immediately choose Deactivate Instance Customization on Windows Hosts Only Instance customization applies only to ACE instances that have a Windows guest operating system installed The instance customization process is built around the standard Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools It provides the following benefits Automates the Sysprep process the use of the Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools It gives you better control of some Sysprep parameters such as computer name
294. ferences gt Priority deselect the check box called Take and restore snapshots in the background On the full screen toolbar click the Cycle Multiple Monitors button This button is available only if the host has more than one monitor This button is shown in Figure 8 1 Full Screen Toolbar on a Windows Host on page 156 Clicking the Cycle Multiple Monitors button causes the guest operating system s desktop to extend to the additional monitor or monitors If the virtual machine does not display correctly use the system menu on Windows hosts or the View menu on Linux hosts and make sure Autofit Guest is selected If you have more than two monitors and you want the virtual machine to use them click the Cycle Multiple Monitors button again The ordering in which the monitors are used depends on the order in which the monitors were added to the host operating system To return to using only one monitor click the Cycle Multiple Monitors button until the display returns to one monitor Use Multiple Monitors for Multiple Virtual Machines If your host has a multiple monitor display you can run a different virtual machine on each monitor Before you begin make sure the guest operating system has VMware Tools installed See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 To use multiple monitors for multiple virtual machines 1 To open multiple Workstation windows choose File gt New gt Window On Linux hosts altho
295. field Files of type to filter the files displayed by file extension Click Open 147 Workstation User s Manual Workstation creates a VMware virtual machine with a VMware configuration file vmx for the converted virtual machine or system image The converted virtual machine links to the virtual disks of the original virtual machine or system image The original Virtual PC Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery or StorageCraft configuration vmc spf or sv2i file is unchanged If you attempt to open a virtual machine or system image that is password protected you are prompted to use the Conversion wizard See Import a Virtual Machine Virtual Appliance or System Image on page 148 Import a Virtual Machine Virtual Appliance or System Image 148 The File gt Import command enables you to convert a system image or virtual machine into a VMware virtual machine Before you begin review the restrictions and requirements for source and destination virtual machines See Supported Source Machines on page 139 and Supported Destinations on page 144 To import a virtual machine virtual appliance or system image 1 If you are importing a virtual machine make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose File gt Import to launch the VMware Conversion wizard Complete the wizard pages The text on the wizard pages changes depending on the selections you make For example on the Source Type page when
296. figuration settings for each virtual machine in which you want to execute and debug applications Virtual machine configuration properties which you VMware Inc 475 Workstation User s Manual 476 set in the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger configuration pages determine which virtual machine to run the application in and how the application is executed Once configured the integrated virtual debugger finds the virtual machine powers it on if necessary sets up the environment based on your configuration settings and starts or attaches to the application Configuration Options When Starting an Application in a Virtual Machine To configure how to start an application with or without debugging in a virtual machine you can specify the following settings in the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger configuration pages m The command to be executed by Visual Studio in the guest operating system m The name of the virtual machine vmx configuration file m Whether to run the command as a shared path on the host or as a guest path m The location of the Remote Debug Monitor on the host m The name of the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest You can specify the following additional settings when you start debugging an application in a virtual machine but not when you start an application without debugging m Optional The location of folders to be shared between the host and the guest m Optional Actions to per
297. fixes The wizard shows which files it requires You must browse to the required files They can be on a disk your local system or the network On Windows NT machines during the import process a snapshot driver is downloaded to the machine This driver handles the copying and moving of files and registry settings The driver requires a reboot to complete its tasks When it is finished the driver is uninstalled NOTE For this beta release although Windows NT virtual machines are supported as a source Windows NT physical machines are not supported VMware Inc Chapter 7 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine ESX Virtual Machine Source You must supply the name of the ESX server and the user name and password for logging in Password Protected Virtual Machines If the virtual machine you want to import is password protected you must supply the password About Page Files and Hibernation Files You can import all the disks for the physical or virtual machine or to save space you can select some of the volumes and leave out others If you select specific volumes you can also ignore the page and hibernation files These files are large and for volume based cloning do not provide information that you need to copy Supported Volume Types Some types of source volumes or partitions are unsupported and are skipped during cloning Virtual machine importing supports basic volumes and all ty
298. following buttons m Play Pause The button is labeled Play if you want to play the last recording you made for the selected virtual machine If the virtual machine is powered off it is resumed as if it had been suspended It is labeled Pause if you want to suspend the replay and click the button again to resume replay m Go Live Stops the replay that is in progress and reverts to the current state of the virtual machine m Add Marker Takes a replay specific snapshot at the current location within the recording You can use this marker during replay to skip ahead in a recording m Go to Previous Marker Plays the previous marker VMware Inc 237 Workstation User s Manual Go to Next Marker Plays the next marker Current Replay Position Slider Allows to preview a replay You can drag and drop the Current Replay Position Slider to the nearest previous snapshot and start replaying On Linux the auto scroll function of the zoomed in portion is enabled The Current Replay Position Slider is a red arrow located in the progress timeline Zoom Control Controls the zoom in and out function during replay Minimize On Windows the button minimizes the dialog box to the bottom left hand side of the status bar The minimized control allows you to view your recording in the virtual machine and use the controls in the status bar The progress indicator in the status bar shows the timeline of the recording NOTE Kee
299. following items before the instance is allowed to run m The revocation flag is not set and the instance is not blocked from running because of any policy errors m The expiration date set for the instance if any has not been reached See Setting Expiration Policies on page 382 Create or Edit an Access Control Policy After you enable ACE features for a virtual machine you can create a policy to control which end users can access an installed ACE package and turn it into an ACE instance This policy also controls which users can power on an ACE instance VMware Inc 375 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 376 To create or edit an access control policy 1 2 Select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose VM gt ACE gt Policies In the policy editor select Access Control and complete the fields in the settings panel Click OK Verify that the new settings appear correctly on the ACE tab in the virtual machine s summary view If you change an activation setting the policy takes effect when a new instance from this package is installed and activated You can also edit an imported keyword list Optional To change the authentication setting from one type to another create a policy update package and distribute it to the user Activation Settings Use activation settings to control which users can activate an ACE instance after it is installed The activation date is used for the expiration policy If
300. form before starting an application in a virtual machine including m Copying files or folders from the host to the virtual machine m Reverting the virtual machine to the parent snapshot m Running specified pre execution commands on the guest For example if you must register new DLLs in the virtual machine each time the program is recompiled you can create a DLL registration script and specify that it must be run during setup m Optional Actions to perform after an application in a virtual machine is terminated including m Running specified post execution commands for example to perform cleanup tasks in the guest m Setting the virtual machine state to VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger m No operation remain powered on no shutdown action m Powered off m The parent snapshot m Suspended Configuration Options When Attaching to a Process Running in a Virtual Machine To configure a debugging session that attaches to a process already running in a virtual machine you can specify the following in the Attach to Process dialog box The name of the virtual machine vmx configuration file The location of the Remote Debug Monitor on the host The name of the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest Setting Up the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Environment Review the requirements and recommendations in this section before following the instructions in Chapter 2
301. fter an ACE instance is activated using a key that key cannot be used to activate another instance Removing a key from the list does not affect an instance that was activated with that key Authentication Settings The authentication step is performed whenever the user runs the instance unless Authentication is set to None If you use an ACE Management Server with Active Directory the controls in the Authentication section enable you to open the Active Directory Users and Groups dialog box The machine on which Workstation runs must be in the same domain that the ACE Management Server is configured for If you do not use Active Directory or if you are creating standalone ACE instances the settings panel includes the following options for authentication control m None No password is required Any user can run this instance after it is activated User specified password The instance does not run until the user enters the correct password Each user must set a password during activation the first time the instance is powered on You can create password policies to control such things as the minimum number of characters types of characters and number of password attempts before the user is locked out for a specified amount of time m Script A custom authentication script is run to determine who can use the instance See Create and Deploy an Authentication Script on page 377 Create and Deploy an Authentication Script
302. g 85 103 137 creating a clone 203 default location of 88 defined 499 delete 153 files 151 IDE drives in installing software in 165 migrating 209 moving 199 205 moving SMP virtual machines 348 name change 74 platform specifications 32 portability 214 517 Workstation User s Manual 518 power off vs shut down 152 recording activity of 235 removing from Favorites list 74 removing from team 251 reset vs restart 153 resuming 187 running in the background 81 238 settings 79 shutting down 152 starting 149 starting in full screen mode 361 suspending 187 upgrade or downgrade 57 upgrading procedure 58 using snapshots 189 Virtual Machine Communication Interface VMCI 104 virtual machine settings editor defined 499 restricting access 351 352 virtual machines converting 137 virtual network editor 500 Virtual PC importing 139 virtual SMP moving SMP virtual machines 348 using 348 virtual switch 259 virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing See virtual SMP Visual Studio installing the Workstation plug in for 42 VIX API 173 vmc file importing 139 VMCI Sockets interface 173 vmdk file 100 vmem file 100 VMI Virtual Machine Interface enabled kernels 98 VMneti 286 VMnet8 293 vmrun 457 vmsd file 100 vmsn file 100 vmss file 100 vmtm file 100 VMware ACE 2 components 368 described 367 key features 368 VMware community forums 20 vmware config pl 47 VMware Converter 137 139 VMware P
303. g configuration for Workstation 305 on both bridged and host only networks 306 scan code 329 scanner 343 screen captures 171 screen colors for VNC clients 167 setting for virtual machines 307 screen modes full screen 156 quick switch 158 screen resolution 165 png files for screen captures 171 screenshots 171 script power on 378 scripts creating custom VMware Tools 128 enabling disabling and running 124 for instance customization 417 running and disabling 130 running during power state changes 127 writing 402 Scripts tab VMware Tools 124 SCSI 27 adding a generic SCSI device 345 346 avoiding concurrent access on a Linux host 344 connecting to generic 343 devices in virtual machine 33 driver for Windows NT guest 344 driver for Windows Server 2003 513 Workstation User s Manual 514 guest 343 driver for Windows XP guest 343 drivers 90 343 generic SCSI on a Linux host 344 generic SCSI on a Windows host 343 permissions for a generic SCSI de vice on a Linux host 343 setting up virtual disk as 215 Sempron processor 26 38 serial connection between host application and virtual machine 319 between two virtual machines 320 for debugging 322 to a serial port on the host 318 serial number for Workstation 42 serial port installing and using 318 server DHCP 260 279 293 301 DNS 285 293 294 296 WINS 295 setting correct time on Pocket ACE host computers 439 policies for an AC
304. g folders in 73 defined 494 overview 72 pictured 72 removing virtual machines from 74 files BIOS in virtual machine 100 redo log 100 Samba and file sharing on a Linux host 305 sharing among virtual machines and host 175 snapshot 100 suspended state 100 used by a virtual machine 100 505 Workstation User s Manual 506 used by snapshot 100 virtual machine 151 files distribution formats for package 430 firewall 301 fit guest 163 window 163 window to virtual machine 163 floppy drives in virtual machine 34 image file 34 230 floppy drive adding to virtual machine 229 folders in the Favorites list 73 shared See shared folder for displaying Workstation help 29 32 FreeBSD supported 32 bit guest operating systems 37 supported 64 bit guest operating systems 37 VMware Tools for 114 FTP 294 full screen mode defined 494 using 156 full screen switch mode 355 log file 364 full screen toolbar 395 G gated host network 284 global configuration file 356 graphics See also display support in virtual machine 33 307 guest autofit 163 defined 26 fit 163 Guest network access policies interactions with tunneling protocols 392 guest network access policies 384 guest operating system defined 494 for instance customization 416 installing 96 support for 64 bit 38 supported 35 supported FreeBSD 32 bit 37 supported FreeBSD 64 bit 37 supported Linux 32 bit 37 supported Linux 64 bit 37 supported MS DOS 36 sup
305. g system m Machine 1 For the bridged network adapter in virtual machine 1 use the networking settings needed for a connection to the external network If the virtual machine gets its IP address from a DHCP server on the external network the default settings should work For the second network adapter in virtual machine 1 manually assign an IP address in the range you are using with vmnet2 m Machine 2 Assign an IP address in the range you are using with vmnet2 m Machine 3 Network adapters are connected to vmnet2 and vmnet3 Assign each adapter an IP address in the range you are using with the virtual network to which it is connected m Machine 4 Assign an IP address in the range you are using with vmnet3 9 Install the necessary application software in each virtual machine Changing a Networking Configuration This section describes how you can find out the type of network a virtual machine is using use the virtual machine settings editor to add virtual network adapters to your virtual machine and change the configuration of existing adapters VMware Inc 267 Workstation User s Manual 268 Find the Network Type of a Virtual Machine Unless you setup a custom network connection a virtual machine uses a bridged NAT network address translation or host only network connection If you create a virtual machine by using the Typical setup path in the New Virtual Machine wizard the virtual machine is creating using
306. g the Conversion wizard Source Type Selection On the Source Type page of the wizard if you are not sure which source type to choose you can take a guess For example if you are not sure whether to choose Other Virtual 140 VMware Inc Chapter 7 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine Machine or Backup Image for a StorageCraft ShadowProtect file choose either one and when the wizard reads the file it selects the correct source type Physical Machine Source To import a remote machine you are prompted to supply the computer name or IP address and the user name and password for logging in to the machine with administrative privileges The user name must take the form lt DOMAIN gt lt user_name gt NOTE Remote physical machines cannot be imported into an ESX compatible format by the wizard Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server Virtual Hard Disks As of Workstation 6 5 a converted virtual machine can share the source Microsoft virtual hard disk vhd files This means that the VMware virtual machine can write directly to the original vhd files instead of VMware virtual hard disk vmdk files If you select Share source the converted virtual machine consists of a VMware virtual machine configuration file vmx file and the original vhd file which remains in its original location VMware modifies the vhd file installing VMware specific video drivers device drivers for virtual ne
307. g through the available virtual machines on a host computer Hot keys behave in the following manner m Each time you press the specified hot key the next virtual machine appears in order You can also include the host operating system in the cycle m If any particular virtual machine is not running it is skipped m If only one virtual machine is running and the host operating system is not included in the cycle pressing the hot key has no effect The hot key for cycling through virtual machines is defined in the global configuration file config ini Two options control cycling m FullScreenSwitch cycleKey The value of this option defines the hot key It is specified as lt key gt lt modifier gt It has no default For example to use the Pause key with no modifier to cycle through virtual machines add the following line to the config ini file or modify its value if the option is already listed FullScreenSwitch cycleKey 0x13 0x0 m FullScreenSwitch cycleHost Set this option to TRUE to include the host operating system in the cycle The default is FALSE For example to include the host operating system in the cycle add the following line to the config ini file or modify its value if the option is already listed FullScreenSwitch cycleHost TRUE Hot Keys for Switching Directly to Virtual Machines and the Host Computer You can specify a hot key or hot key combination for switching directly to any available virtua
308. gs gt Options gt Shared Folders to see a list of the shared folders and the directory paths to them Permissions and Folder Mounting for Shared Folders on Linux Guests The version of VMware Tools included in Workstation 6 5 contains performance improvements support for symbolic links if you use a Linux host a new mechanism for mounting shared folders and permissions enhancements Performance Improvements Host guest file sharing is integrated with the guest page cache Files in shared folders are cached for reading and can be written to asynchronously However you do not experience the read caching benefits on files that are being actively written to from the guest To speed performance use the tt 1 time to live option to the mount command Use this option to specify the interval used by the hgfs host guest file system driver for validating file attributes For example if you use the following command attributes are validated every 3 seconds instead of every 1 second which is the default mount o ttl 3 t vmhgfs host lt share gt lt mountpoint gt NOTE Lengthening the interval involves some risk If something in the host modifies a file s attributes the guest might not get the modifications as quickly and the file can become corrupted Folder Mounting This mechanism allows you to mount one or more directories or subdirectories in a shared folder to any location in your file system in addition to the default
309. gt N ITEC E VMnet8 E VMware Network Adapter Meta gt Wines Notbridged SF DK Cancel Apply Help Choose Subnet or DHCP In the Subnet dialog box you can change the subnet s IP address and the subnet mask IP Address 192 168 245 0 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 The address should specify a valid network address that is suitable for use with the subnet mask The default subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 a class C network Typically this means you should modify only the third number in the IP address for example x in 192 168 x 0 or 172 16 x 0 In general you should not change the subnet mask Certain virtual network services might not work as well witha customized subnet mask When you modify the network address or subnet mask Workstation automatically updates the IP address settings for other components such as 273 Workstation User s Manual 274 DHCP NAT and host virtual adapter if the default settings have never been changed The specific settings that are automatically updated include DHCP lease range DHCP server address NAT gateway address and host virtual adapter IP address However if you have changed any of these settings from its default value Workstation does not update that setting automatically Workstation presumes that custom settings are not to be modified This is the case even if you later changed the setting back to the default m Inthe DHCP settings dialog b
310. hanges are synchronized on the removable device See Pocket ACE Cache Settings on page 397 Pocket ACE ignores some policies Although you can set host and snapshot policies and create a package that includes them Pocket ACE instances ignore these policies Administrators cannot revert to reimage snapshots when running a Pocket ACE in administrator mode in VMware Player Create a Pocket ACE Package 436 Before you begin determine the following information which is specific to Pocket ACE m Does the portable device meet the hardware and disk space requirements for Pocket ACE See Portable Device Requirements on page 435 m Do you want to deploy the Pocket ACE to Windows machines 32 bit Linux machines 64 bit Linux machines or some combination Your choices affect the disk space requirements m What is the password you want to use for anyone who attempts to deploy the package to a portable device If you do not want to require a password make sure the access control policy s authentication type is set to None Make sure the encryption deployment setting for package protection is set to None In addition complete the tasks listed in Prerequisites for Using the Packaging Wizards on page 428 VMware Inc Chapter 23 Pocket ACE To create a Pocket ACE package 1 Open the ACE enabled virtual machine to use as the basis for the package 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off rather than suspended
311. haracters If the path exceeds this limit an error message appears You must select or enter a shorter path On the Configure Shortcuts page deselect any shortcuts you do not want the installer to create On the Ready to Install the Program page either click Install or click Back to make changes Optional After you click Install on the Registration Information page enter your name company name and serial number and click Next Your serial number is either on the registration card in your package or in an email from VMware if you purchased Workstation online The user and company VMware Inc Chapter 2 Installing VMware Workstation information you enter here is then made available in the About box choose Help gt About VMware Workstation If you skip this step you must enter your serial number before you can power on a virtual machine 10 When the wizard displays the Installation Wizard Completed page click Finish Some installations might require that you reboot your computer When you restart you don t need to log in as a user with Administrator privileges Install Workstation Silently If you are installing Workstation on several Windows host computers you can use the silent installation feature of the Microsoft Windows Installer This feature is convenient for example in a large enterprise Before you begin ensure that the host computer has version 2 0 or higher of the MSI runtime engine This version of
312. he Hardware tab select Hard Disk and do one of the following m On Linux hosts click Defragment m On Windows hosts click Utilities and choose Defragment When the process is finished click OK 3 Runa disk defragmentation utility on the host computer Defragmenting disks can take considerable time VMware Inc 217 Workstation User s Manual Shrink a Virtual Disk Shrinking a virtual disk reclaims unused space in the virtual disk If a disk has empty space this process reduces the amount of space the virtual disk occupies on the host drive Before you perform the procedure in this topic make sure the following prerequisites are met m VMware Tools is installed in the guest operating system m The host has free disk space equal to the size of the virtual disk you plan to shrink m The disk space is not preallocated for the virtual hard disk Use the virtual machine settings editor to view the disk information for this virtual hard disk If the disk space was preallocated you cannot shrink the disk m The virtual machine has no snapshots If it has a snapshot a Snapshot line appears in its summary view To delete a snapshot choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager Select the snapshot and click the Delete button on Windows or icon on the snapshot toolbar on Linux m The virtual machine is not a linked clone or the parent of a linked clone If the virtual machine is a linked clone a Clone of line appears on
313. he Shared Folder tab of the VMware Tools control panel tab is available only on newer Windows guests and only when shared folders are enabled It provides information on how to access your shared folders on the host so you can share files between the host and guest With a shared folder you can share files between two virtual machines and between a virtual machine and the host operating system even if one has a Windows operating system and the other has Linux or Solaris Although the Shared Folders tab does not appear in Linux or Solaris guests you can share folders with Linux and Solaris guests See Set Up Shared Folders on page 178 The shared folders feature works only when the virtual machine is running under newer versions of some VMware products and only when shared folders are enabled for the virtual machine Shared folders are not supported with Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me and FreeBSD guest operating systems Shrink Tab Settings The Shrink tab of the VMware Tools control panel provides options for reclaiming unused space in a virtual disk If your virtual machine cannot be shrunk this tab displays information explaining why you cannot shrink your virtual disks Shrinking a disk is a two step process a preparation step and the shrink step In the first step VMware Tools reclaims all unused portions of disk partitions such as deleted files and prepares them for shrinking This step takes place in the guest operating
314. he active configuration in the Configuration drop down menu You can edit its configuration properties as described in Setting Configuration Properties on page 486 Remove Configurations To remove a configuration 1 2 Choose VMware gt Options Choose the name of the configuration you want to delete from the Configuration drop down menu and click the Edit icon In the Edit Configuration page select the configuration you want to delete and click Remove At the confirmation prompt click Yes Click Close The configuration is removed from the Configuration drop down menu Running and Debugging Applications in Virtual Machines Once you have created the appropriate configurations the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger enables you to VMware Inc Start an application debugging session in a virtual machine 489 Workstation User s Manual 490 m Start an application in a virtual machine without debugging m Start a debugging session that attaches to a process already running in a virtual machine Start a Debugging Session in a Virtual Machine You can debug an application in any configured virtual machine NOTE You must log in to the guest system manually before the application is started For additional information see Configuring User Accounts on page 481 To start a debugging session in a virtual machine 1 Choose VMware gt Start The application is started in the virtual machi
315. he file and click Open A summary tab for the team appears in the Workstation window 4 Optional To add the team to the Favorites list choose File gt Add to Favorites After a team is added to the Favorites list you can open it by clicking it in the Favorites list rather than using the menu bar You can now power on one or more of the virtual machines in the team See Power On a Team on page 253 Change the Name of a Team When you create a team the name of the directory where the team vmtm file is stored is based on the name you originally give the team Although you can change the name of the team the name of this file does not change To change the name of a team To change the name of a team do one of the following m If the team is in the Favorites list right click it and choose Rename Type the new name and press Enter m Select the team and choose Team gt Settings gt Options Type a new name in the Team name field and click OK Power Off or Close a Team Powering off a team means shutting down all the virtual machines in the team The virtual machines are powered off in reverse order of that shown in the startup sequence See Specify the Startup Sequence for a Team on page 252 Closing a team removes its summary tab from the Workstation window Depending on how you set Workstation preferences closing a team might require powering off the team To power off or close a team Depending on which op
316. he guest operating system Path to vmx file Original file name New file name Examples for vmrun For example to reset a virtual machine m Ina Linux terminal enter vmrun reset usr local VMs lt virtual_machine_name gt vmx soft m On the Windows command line enter vmrun reset c Virtual Machines lt virtual_machine_name gt vmx soft 460 VMware Inc Appendix A Workstation Command Line Reference With virtual machines that require input through a VMware Workstation dialog box vmrun might time out and fail To disable Workstation dialog boxes insert the following line into the configuration vmx file for a virtual machine msg autoAnswer TRUE VMware Inc 461 Workstation User s Manual 462 VMware Inc Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger This appendix contains the following sections m Installation Requirements for the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger Environment on page 464 m Managing Virtual Machine Launch Configurations on page 469 m Running and Debugging Applications in Virtual Machines on page 472 The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger provides a configurable interface between Eclipse and virtual machines making it easy to develop and debug applications that run in multiple operating system environments on a single PC Debugging your applications in virtual machines enables you to reproduce and record errors while maintaining the integrity of the h
317. he guest or host to use a DNS server to resolve IP addresses Select this option if the DNS server is not included in any other network access setting for this host or ACE instance DHCP Allows the host or guest to obtain its IP address from a DHCP server Select this option if the DHCP server is not included in any other network access setting for the host or ACE instance m ICMP Enables you to use the ping command For guests ping enables you to check network connectivity to and from the ACE instance For hosts it enables you to check network connectivity with other hosts in the network and with the ACE instance Optional To add or edit a rule do one of the following m To change a specific rule s settings click the row for that rule in the table in the ruleset editor and click Edit m To adda rule click Add Optional Use the rule editor to specify the type of traffic whether to block or allow traffic from specified network locations the protocol and ports or port ranges VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player m Addresses To edit an existing host name or address double click that item and edit it The wildcard setting for all IP addresses is 0 0 0 0 0 m Protocol To allow or block communication for a specific protocol select Custom from the Protocol list The protocol number is in the packet If that number matches the number supplied in the Custom field the pa
318. he host choose VM gt Install VMware Tools Make sure the guest operating system is running in text mode You cannot install VMware Tools while X is running On the guest log in as root su If necessary mount the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image by entering a command similar to the following mount cdrom Some FreeBSD distributions automatically mount CD ROMs If your distribution uses automounting skip this step Change to a working directory by entering a command such as the following cd tmp Untar the VMware Tools tar file VMware Inc 10 11 Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools tar zxpf cdrom vmware freebsd tools tar gz If necessary unmount the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image by entering a command similar to the following umount cdrom If your distribution uses automounting skip this step Run the VMware Tools installer cd vmware tools distrib vmware instal1 pL Log out of the root account exit Start your graphical environment In an X terminal enter the following command to start the VMware Tools control panel vmware toolbox amp In minimal installations of the FreeBSD 4 5 guest operating system sometimes VMware Tools does not start See Install the Missing FreeBSD Library on page 115 To change the default VMware Tools configuration options see Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Install the Missing FreeBSD Library If VMware Tools do
319. he operation is transparent to the user of the virtual machine on the NAT network No additional work needs to be done The same cannot be said for network connections that are initiated from the external network to a virtual machine on the NAT network When a machine on the external network attempts to initiate a connection with a virtual machine on the NAT network it cannot reach the virtual machine because the NAT device does not forward the request Network connections that are initiated from outside the NAT network are not transparent However it is possible to configure port forwarding manually on the NAT device so network traffic destined for a certain port can still be forwarded automatically to a virtual machine on the NAT network See Advanced NAT Configuration on page 295 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking File sharing of the type used by Windows operating systems and Samba is possible among computers on the NAT network including virtual machines and the host computer If you are using WINS servers on your network a virtual machine using NAT networking can access shared files and folders on the host that are known by the WINS server so long as those shared files and folders are in the same workgroup or domain Advanced NAT Configuration This sections provides information for advanced users on how to configure NAT to make custom configuration settings for Windows and Linux Configure NAT on a Window
320. he virtual machine can be powered on or off 2 Choose VM gt Settings 3 On the Hardware tab select USB Controller 4 Use the Automatically connect new USB devices to this virtual machine when it has focus check box to enable or disable the setting and click OK Connect a USB Device Manually If a device that is connected to the host does not automatically connect to a virtual machine at power on you can connect the device manually Also when you are using a virtual machine if you plug a device in to the host the autoconnect feature usually connects the device to the virtual machine If this action does not occur you can connect the device manually To connect a USB device manually 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered on 3 Choose VM gt Removable Devices gt lt device_name gt Here lt device_name gt specifies the USB device that is plugged in to the host A check mark appears next to the device s name indicating that it is connected If the physical USB devices are connected to the host through a hub the virtual machine sees only the USB devices not the hub USB Driver Installation on a Windows Host When a particular USB device is connected to a virtual machine for the first time the host detects it as anew device named VMware USB Device and installs the appropriate VMware driver 338 VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts
321. he virtual machine is using the latest version of VMware Tools The VMware Tools service is running in the virtual machine Depending on the operation the script performs the virtual machine has a virtual network adapter connected If not the power operation fails UNIX guests only To edit a script by using the Edit button on the Scripts tab xterm and vi must be installed in the guest operating system and must be in your PATH You must be a root user to edit the script To create custom VMware Tools scripts 1 Determine whether you want to create your custom script by making changes to the default script and saving it to a new location In Windows guests the default scripts are located in the Program Files VMware VMware Tools folder On UNIX the default scripts are located in the etc vmware tools directory Modify the default script and save it with a different name or write a different script On Windows guests if you write a new script create the script as a batch file For UNIX create the script in any executable format such as shell or Perl scripts You can also use the Edit button on the Scripts tab of the VMware Tools control panel to edit a custom script You can also edit scripts manually using any text editor Associate each custom script with its particular power operation a On the Scripts tab of the VMware Tools control panel select the appropriate script event b Select the Use Script check box selec
322. hich SCSI adapter to use at the time you create the virtual machine NOTE To use SCSI disks in a 32 bit Windows XP virtual machine download a special SCSI driver from the Downloads page of the VMware Web site Follow the instructions on the Web site to use the driver with a fresh installation of Windows XP A virtual disk of either type can be stored on either type of physical hard disk That is the files that make up an IDE or SCSI virtual disk can be stored on either an IDE hard VMware Inc 215 Workstation User s Manual disk or a SCSI hard disk They can also be stored on other types of fast access storage media Physical Disks In some circumstances you might need to give your virtual machine direct access to a physical hard drive on your host computer A physical disk directly accesses an existing local disk or partition You can use physical disks if you want Workstation to run one or more guest operating systems from existing disk partitions V CAUTION Do not attempt physical disk configurations unless you are an expert user Although virtual disks are limited to 950GB physical disks can be set up on both IDE and SCSI devices of up to 2TB capacity Booting from an operating system already set up on an existing SCSI disk or partition is currently not supported Also on Windows Vista hosts you cannot use the system partition or the physical disk that contains it in a virtual machine CAUTION Running an oper
323. hile mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed VMware Workstation must be the active application Ctrl Shift Tab Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed VMware Workstation must be the active application Ctrl Shifttright In full screen mode switch to the next powered on virtual machine arrow Ctrl Shift left In full screen mode switch to the previous powered on virtual machine arrow 83 VMware Inc Workstation User s Manual 84 VMware Inc Creating a Virtual Machine This chapter describes how to create a virtual machine by using the New Virtual Machine wizard It provides general information about installing guest operating systems This chapter includes the following topics Methods of Creating Virtual Machines on page 85 Configuration Options for the New Virtual Machine Wizard on page 86 Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard on page 92 Install a Guest Operating System Manually on page 96 Upgrade a Guest Operating System on page 99 Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine on page 100 Methods of Creating Virtual Machines Workstation gives you several options for creating virtual machines VMware Inc Create a virtual machine from scratch If you do not have any virtual machines or system images you must use this method Use the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a virtual machine Next you must install an operating system The process
324. hine and click Next See SCSI Adapter Types on page 90 On the Select a Disk page select whether to create an IDE or SCSI disk and click Next For more information see Virtual Disks and Physical Disks on page 91 95 Workstation User s Manual 13 14 15 16 17 18 On the Select a Disk Type page select whether to create an IDE or SCSI disk and click Next The default is based on the guest operating system you selected All Linux distributions you can select in the wizard use SCSI virtual disks by default as do several newer Windows operating systems and 64 bit operating systems See SCSI Adapter Types on page 90 On Linux hosts only on the Select a Disk Type page if you want to exclude disks from snapshots in the Mode section select Independent for the mode and choose one of the following options m Persistent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk m Nonpersistent Changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to a snapshot See Exclude a Virtual Disk from Snapshots on page 192 On the Specify Disk Capacity page enter the size of the virtual disk specify the way you want the disk space allocated and click Next See Disk Capacity on page 91 and Pocket ACE Disk Size Calculator on Windows Only on page 91 On the Specify Disk File page enter the location of the virtual disk s files and click Next Optional On the Rea
325. hine is resumed after it was suspended On Windows guests if the virtual machine is configured to use DHCP this script renews the IP address of the virtual machine On Linux FreeBSD and Solaris guests this script starts networking for the virtual machine suspend vm default If you configured the suspend operation to suspend the guest this script runs when the virtual machine is being suspended On Windows guests if the virtual machine is configured to use DHCP this script releases the IP address of the virtual machine On Linux FreeBSD and Solaris guests this script stops networking for the virtual machine Create Scripts to Override Default VMware Tools Scripts Use the instructions in this topic to override the default VMware Tools scripts and create your own scripts to control power state changes Scripts are run by the VMware Tools daemon VMwareService exe on Windows and vmware guestd on UNIX Because vmware guestd is run as root on UNIX and as System on Windows the scripts are run in a separate session from the logged in user s session The VMware Tools daemon has no knowledge of desktop sessions which 128 VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools means that it cannot display graphical applications Do not attempt to use custom scripts to display graphical applications Before creating custom scripts make sure that the following conditions are met in the guest operating system T
326. hines on and off change the Workstation display manage snapshots and record virtual machine activity VMware Inc 67 Workstation User s Manual Figure 4 5 Workstation Toolbars N gt c BENI e ee Power toolbar Snapshot toolbar View toolbar Replay toolbar Figure 4 6 ACE Toolbar Windows Hosts Only l Ssi a ACE toolbar If you point your mouse over a toolbar button a tooltip appears and displays the name of the button To change which buttons are displayed see Customize the Toolbar on a Linux Host on page 70 You can display the following toolbars m Power toolbar m Power Off Turns off the active virtual machine or team like the power button ona physical PC You can configure Workstation for a soft power off called shut down or a hard power off called power off See Shut Down a Virtual Machine on page 152 or Power Off or Close a Team on page 248 m Suspend Stops a virtual machine or team in a manner that allows you to resume your work later See Using the Suspend and Resume Features on page 187 m Power On or Resume Powers on a selected virtual machine or team that is powered off or resumes a virtual machine or team that is suspended m Power On See Starting a Virtual Machine on page 149 or Power On a Team on page 253 m Resume See Using the Suspend and Resume Features on page 187 m Reset Resets a virtual machine or team like
327. his mode the ACE Management Server makes the password change request to the Active Directory domain controller on the user s behalf VMware Inc 381 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Setting Host to Guest Data Script Policies You can provide a host to guest data script that runs when the ACE instance is powered on passes values to the guest Use this policy setting to share specific host information with the guest operating system when the ACE instance is powered on The script which runs on the host should output a set of key value pairs which become available to the applications that are running inside the guest The VMware Tools service provides this ability The set of acceptable keys consists of machine id and keys prefixed with guestinfo such as guestinfo ipAddress If the ACE enabled virtual machine for this instance is configured for both Windows and Linux platforms you can provide scripts for both Windows and Linux systems Changes to a script require that you deploy an update package that includes the new script Setting Expiration Policies 382 Expiration policies are useful for instance if you want to prevent a contract employee from using a virtual machine past a certain date or for more than a certain number of days When an instance expires the files remain on the user s computer but the instance cannot be used This way the user can request an extension to the expiration date If you specify a date
328. ic Multiprocessing on page 348 NOTE Ifthe host is a uniprocessor machine assigning two processors is not supported A warning message appears You can disregard this message and assign two processors to the virtual machine but when you finish creating the virtual machine you cannot power it on unless you move it to a host machine with at least two logical processors Open a Virtual Machine Created in ESX Server That Has More Than Two Processors You can use Workstation 5 5 or higher running on a multiprocessor host machine to open a virtual machine created in VMware ESX Server that has one or more virtual VMware Inc Chapter 11 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines processors However in Workstation you cannot power on or resume a virtual machine that has more than two virtual processors assigned even if more processors were assigned when the virtual machine was created in ESX Server You can see this setting in the virtual machine s summary view or by using the virtual machine settings editor To open a virtual machine created in ESX Server that has more than two processors 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware gt Processors and note that Number of Processors is set to Other x where x is the number of processors originally assigned in ESX Server Workstation preserves this original configuration setting for the number of processors even though two is the maximum number
329. ices 1 2 Find out whether the device driver for this device is installed on the host If the device driver is not installed and you want to install it do so and see if the device appears correctly in the virtual machine settings editor You might not want to install the driver on the host if you want to avoid a device in use conflict between the host and guest If a driver is installed but does not appear correctly or if you cannot install the driver on the host or if you do not want to install the driver on the host add the device manually to the virtual machine as described in the rest of this procedure If an original SCSI device driver is already installed on the host disable it VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Some Windows operating systems do not process the send command from the adapter if the device driver is owning the device 4 Power off the virtual machine and open the virtual machine s configuration vmx file in a text editor 5 Add or change the following line in the vmx file scsiZ Y fileName lt deviceName gt where Xis the SCSI bus number the device uses on the host system and Y is the target ID the device uses both in the virtual machine and on the host For lt deviceName gt use scsiX Y Here is an example of how to set the option Say the problematic device is a CD ROM drive and the existing entry in the configuration file is scsi0 4 fileName CdRom0 If the devi
330. ier State from a Snapshot Restore a snapshot in Workstation by using the Revert and Go to commands The Revert command has the same effect as using the Go to command and selecting the parent snapshot of the virtual machine It reverts to the parent snapshot of the current state This state corresponds to the You Are Here position in the snapshot manager See Snapshot Relationships on page 190 The Go to command is not limited to the parent snapshot of the current state You can choose any existing snapshot of the virtual machine To restore an earlier state from a snapshot Do one of the following m To revert to the parent snapshot choose VM gt Snapshot gt Revert to Snapshot m To revert to a snapshot that is not the parent choose VM gt Snapshot and select the snapshot name m To set the virtual machine to revert to the parent snapshot every time the virtual machine is powered off see Revert at Power Off on page 196 Revert at Power Off You can set the virtual machine to revert to the parent snapshot any time it is powered off The parent snapshot of a virtual machine is the snapshot on which the current state the You Are Here position is based VMware Inc Chapter 10 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine To set a virtual machine to revert to a snapshot at power off 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off 2 Choose VM gt Settings
331. iguration file to launch the same virtual disk in nonpersistent mode multiple times in a training or testing environment Passing a string is also useful when you want to deploy virtual machines on a network using a common configuration file while providing each machine with its own unique identity You can pass strings to a virtual machine s guest operating system in one of two ways placing the string in the virtual machine s configuration file or passing the string to the guest from the command line Use this feature only if you have a good understanding of a scripting language for example Perl or NetShell and know how to modify system startup scripts String in a Configuration File Place a string in the virtual machine s configuration file vmx file by setting the string to the machine id parameter For example you can set this string machine id Hello World Following is an example of portions of two configuration files that point to the same virtual disk Each configuration file contains its own unique string set for the machine id parameter config_file_1 vmx contains ide0 0 present TRUE ide0 0 fileName my_common_virtual_hard_drive vmdk machine id the_string_for_my_first_vm config_file_2 vmx contains VMware Inc 131 Workstation User s Manual 132 ide0 0 present TRUE ide0 0 fileName my_common_virtual_hard_drive vmdk machine id the_string_for_my_second_vim To prevent a str
332. ile This behavior is controlled by entries in sections headed privilegedUDP and privilegedTCP You might need to add settings to or modify settings in either or both of these sections depending on the kind of connection you need to make You can set two parameters each of which appears on a separate line autodetect lt n gt The autodetect setting determines whether the VMware NAT device automatically attempts to map virtual machine source ports below 1024 to NAT source ports below 1024 A setting of 1 means true A setting of 0 means false On a Windows host the default is 1 true On a Linux host the default is 0 false port lt n gt The port setting specifies a destination port where lt n gt is the port on the server that accepts the connection from the client Whenever a virtual machine connects to the specified port on any server the NAT device attempts to make the connection from a source port below 1024 You can include one or more port settings in the privilegedUDP or privilegedTCP section or in both sections as required for the connections you need to make Enter each port setting on a separate line Configuring NAT on a Linux Host Use the default NAT configuration file on the host to configure the NAT device This file is located in etc vmware vmnet8 nat nat conf VMware Inc 297 Workstation User s Manual The configuration file is divided into sections Each section configures a part of the NAT
333. ile on page 123 VMware Inc 135 Workstation User s Manual 136 VMware Inc Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine This chapter describes how to convert a physical machine virtual machine or system image to a VMware virtual machine You can convert a virtual machine that was created by using a VMware product or a third party product This chapter includes the following topics m Conversion Process for Importing Virtual Machines from Other Formats on page 137 m VMware Converter Compared to the Conversion Wizard in Workstation on page 139 m Supported Source Machines on page 139 m Supported Destinations on page 144 m Conversion Impact on Settings on page 146 m Open a Third Party Virtual Machine or System Image on page 147 m Import a Virtual Machine Virtual Appliance or System Image on page 148 Conversion Process for Importing Virtual Machines from Other Formats On Windows hosts Workstation 6 5 incorporates the Conversion wizard from the VMware Converter product Using the Conversion wizard to perform a conversion to VMware virtual machines enables you to do the following m Avoid reinstalling operating systems and applications for system configurations you use often VMware Inc 137 Workstation User s Manual 138 m Overcome legacy migration barriers Certain legacy systems might be impossible to recreate through reinstallation
334. indows Vista guests and Windows 2003 Server guests you need to use Windows Update to install a 32 bit driver Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and NT Guests Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 98SE and Windows NT 4 0 do not have drivers for the Sound Blaster AudioPCI adapter To use sound in these guest operating systems download the driver from the Creative Labs Web site www creative com and install it in the guest operating system Creative Labs has a number of Web sites serving various regions of the world The adapter name varies depending on the region but usually includes PCI 128 VMware Inc 311 Workstation User s Manual 312 VMware Inc Connecting Devices This chapter describes how to use various devices with a virtual machine This chapter includes the following topics Using Parallel Ports on page 313 Using Serial Ports on page 318 Configuring Keyboard Features on page 324 Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 335 Use Smart Cards with Virtual Machines on page 342 Support for Generic SCSI Devices on page 343 Use Two Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing on page 348 Using Parallel Ports Parallel ports are used by a variety of devices including printers scanners dongles and disk drives Currently Workstation provides only partial emulation of PS 2 hardware Interrupts requested by a device connected to the physical port are not passed to the vir
335. ine this assumption is no longer true Network Address Translation NAT Configures your virtual machine to share the IP and MAC addresses of the host The virtual machine and the host share a single network identity that is not visible outside the network NAT can be useful when you are allowed a single IP address or MAC address by your network administrator If you are not able to give your virtual machine an IP address on the external network you can use NAT to give your virtual machine access to the Internet or other TCP IP network NAT uses the host computer s network connection NAT works with Ethernet DSL and legacy phone modems VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network Figure 15 2 Network Address Translation Setup virtual network adapter DHCP server QOS E E E E ESE E virtual network switch Mnet8 virtual machine NAT device If you select NAT the virtual machine can use many standard TCP IP protocols to connect to other machines on the external network For example you can use HTTP to browse Web sites FTP to transfer files and Telnet to log on to other computers NAT also allows you to connect to a TCP IP network using a Token Ring adapter on the host computer In the default configuration computers on the external network cannot initiate connections to the virtual machine That means for example that the default configuration does not let you use the virtual machine as
336. ine by double clicking the shortcut to the configuration file The virtual machine starts at the snapshot with the user interface restricted Users do not have a toolbar or access to the VM gt Power menu or the virtual machine settings editor Choose File gt Close The virtual machine powers off and the next time a user powers it on it returns to the snapshot Disable Restricted User Interface To disable the restriction on the interface 1 2 Power off the virtual machine and close the VMware Workstation window Open the configuration file vmx file and do one of the following m Setgui restricted FALSE m Remove or comment out the gui restricted TRUE line Save the changes to the configuration file and close it Start the virtual machine by double clicking the shortcut The virtual machine starts at the snapshot and the interface is not restricted VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts Using Full Screen Switch Mode for Windows Hosts Only Full screen switch mode is a runtime option for the VMware Workstation program on Windows hosts When Workstation is running in full screen switch mode the user has no access to the Workstation user interface The user cannot create reconfigure or launch virtual machines A system administrator performs these functions When Workstation is running in full screen switch mode one or more virtual machines can be running and yo
337. ines Host The physical computer on which you install the VMware Workstation software is called the host computer and its operating system is called the host operating system Guest The operating system running inside a virtual machine is called a guest operating system For definitions of these and other special terms see Glossary on page 493 Host System Requirements 26 Like physical computers the virtual machines running under Workstation perform better if they have faster processors and more memory The sections that follow list the supported host operating systems and hardware PC Hardware Standard x86 compatible or x86 64 compatible personal computer 733MHz or faster CPU minimum Compatible processors include m Intel Celeron Pentium II Pentium III Pentium 4 Pentium M including computers with Centrino mobile technology Xeon including Prestonia Core and Core 2 processors m AMD Athlon Athlon MP Athlon XP Athlon 64 Duron Opteron Turion 64 and Sempron For additional information on processors that are not compatible see the VMware knowledge base at www kb vmware com Enter 967 in the Search menu and select Document Id in the Search In drop down menu VMwareWorkstation in the Product drop down menu and when the search results appear click on the Choosing a Supported Processor for VMware Workstation 4 or Workstation 5 967 link Multiprocessor systems supported Suppor
338. ing m To start a virtual machine from the Workstation user interface you must open the virtual machine and power it on m To start a virtual machine that is running in the background when Workstation is not running you must open its console from the taskbar on the host VMware Inc 149 Workstation User s Manual 150 To start a virtual machine that is available from a Web server you must use a command line command to begin steaming the virtual machine and then start it from the Workstation window To start a virtual machine from the command line you must use the platform specific program and startup options See Startup Options for Workstation and Virtual Machines on page 455 Start a Virtual Machine from the Workstation User Interface Before you begin make sure that all of the virtual machine files are accessible to the host where Workstation is installed To start a virtual machine from the Workstation user interface 1 Start Workstation For instructions see Start Workstation on a Windows Host on page 61 Choose File gt Open and browse to the configuration vmx file for the virtual machine you want to use See Virtual Machine Location on page 151 Click the Power On button to start the virtual machine Click anywhere inside the virtual machine console to give the virtual machine control of your mouse and keyboard If you need to log on to the operating system in the virtual machine type
339. ing You can view and change the settings for bridged networking on your host determine which network adapters on your host to use for bridged networking and map specific VMware Inc 269 Workstation User s Manual 270 network adapters to specific virtual networks called vmnets The changes you make to bridged networking affect all virtual machines using bridged networking on the host Configure vmnet0 Bridged Networking on a Windows Host To configure vmnet0 bridged networking on a Windows host 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings The virtual network editor appears with the Summary tab active By default vmnet0 is set to use automatic bridging mode and bridges to one of the active network adapters on the host computer Click the Automatic Bridging tab and select the check box for Automatically choose an available physical adapter On host systems with more than one physical network adapter installed the choice of which adapter Workstation uses is arbitrary If you want to place restrictions on the choice see Add or Remove a Host Network Adapter from the List of Excluded Adapters Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual network editor Add or Remove a Host Network Adapter from the List of Excluded Adapters To add or remove a host network adapter from the list of excluded adapters 1 2 3 4 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Netwo
340. ing Policies and Customizing VMware Player white_list alan bob mary sonia chris username ENV TEST_USERNAME C defined username print FALSE exit 0 grepNames grep username Gwhite_list grepNames 1 print TRUE exit 0 print FALSE exit 0 Customizing the VMware Player Interface on Windows Hosts Only You can customize several aspects of the VMware Player user interface for ACE instances that run on Windows hosts You save these customizations in a text file and identify that text file called the skin file Create and Specify a Skin File A skin file contains parameter settings for customizing the VMware Player user interface Use this file to change application icons the text that appears in the title bar and to change the way removable devices are presented This feature is available only for VMware Player running on Windows hosts To create and specify a skin file 1 VMware Inc Use a text editor to create a skin file that includes the parameters to customize Use one line for each parameter and use the following form parameter value To comment out a line in the skin file begin the line with the pound sign Save the skin file in the ACE Resources directory in the virtual machine directory for the ACE enabled virtual machine You can use any filename 407 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 408 3 Optional To display application icons
341. ing Workstation To start Workstation on a Windows host 1 2 VMware Inc From the Start menu choose Start gt Programs gt VMware gt VMware Workstation If this is the first time you are launching Workstation read and accept the end user license agreement EULA 61 Workstation User s Manual Start Workstation on a Linux Host Whether you can start Workstation from a Linux GUI depends on the Linux distribution For example on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 1 the VMware Workstation menu item is in the Applications gt System Tools menu You can always start Workstation from the command line Although you must become root to install Workstation you can start and run Workstation as a regular user To start Workstation on a Linux host 1 Open a terminal window 2 Enter one of the following commands m If usr bin is in your default path enter the following command vmware amp m If usr bin is not in your default path enter the following command usr bin vmware amp 3 Read and accept the end user license agreement EULA Workstation includes precompiled drivers for many types of Linux kernels but not all If it does not include precompiled drivers for your kernel you are prompted to build the kernel If you then receive an error message open a terminal window and run the following command vmware config pl copile Overview of the Workstation Window A Workstation virtual machine is like a separate compute
342. ing from being passed from the host to the guest through the service set the following line in your virtual machine s configuration file isolation tools getMachineID disable TRUE String in a Startup Command Rather than setting the machine id parameter in the configuration file you can pass the string to the guest operating system from the command line when you power on the virtual machine Following is an example of such a startup command entered on one line C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation vmware s machine id Hello World C Virtual Machines win2000 win2000 vmx Use this method to deploy virtual machines on a network using a common configuration file while providing each machine with its own unique identity Launch each virtual machine with the vmware s command Each virtual machine disk file must be copied into its own directory if it shares its filename with another virtual machine disk file On a Linux host the machine ID passed on the command line takes precedence and is passed to the guest operating system if the following conditions are met m A virtual machine ID is specified in the virtual machines configuration vmx file which is used to open the virtual machine m You specify a machine ID on the command line Use a String in a Startup Script to Set a Name and IP Address The following example uses a Windows host to illustrate how you can use the service to retrieve a string containing what
343. installer files are copied into the package directory Instance Customization on the End User s Machine On the ACE user s machine after the installation and instance activation the following events occur 1 2 All information required for resolving placeholder variables is obtained Placeholder variables are resolved and replaced with the actual values for the ACE instance See Placeholder Values to Use in Instance Customization on page 419 The Microsoft Mini Setup process runs unattended If the Mini Setup process fails the ACE instance shuts down Optional Additional commands to execute other scripts that you specified in the instance customization deployment settings are executed Optional If you configured a remote domain join the software executes the script you specified connects the ACE instance to the VPN server and joins the virtual machine to the domain See Set Up a Remote Domain Join on page 420 For managed instances instance customization is reported to the server if it is successful Prerequisites for Using Instance Customization Instance customization is available for both managed and standalone ACE instances Before you specify instance customization settings perform the following tasks 416 Install a Windows 2000 XP Professional Server 2003 or Vista guest operating systems on your ACE enabled virtual machine VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances m Install
344. ion completed successfully run the configuration program again 3 When done exit from the root account exit The first time you attempt to power on a virtual machine you are prompted to enter the Workstation 6 5 serial number Uninstall Workstation from a Linux Host When you uninstall Workstation product licenses preference settings and virtual machines are not removed but virtual network settings are removed To uninstall Workstation from a Linux host Depending on whether you used a tar installer or an RPM installer when you installed Workstation do one of the following m If you used the RPM installer enter the following command rpm e VMwareWorkstation lt xxxx gt Where lt xxxx gt is a series of numbers representing the version and build If you have Workstation properly installed you can find the Workstation build number by running rpm qa grep VM m Ifyou used the tar installer enter the following command vmware uninstall pl 48 VMware Inc Chapter 2 Installing VMware Workstation Where to Go Next After Workstation is installed the process of using it usually includes the following tasks performed in the following order 1 Create a virtual machine See Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine on page 85 2 Install a guest operating system in the new virtual machine See Install a Guest Operating System Manually on page 96 or the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide availa
345. ion does not need to be running when VNC connections are made Only the virtual machine needs to be running and it can be running in the background Configure a Virtual Machine as a VNC Server You do not need to install any specialized VNC software in a virtual machine to set it up as a VNC server Before you begin make sure the guest operating system has VMware Tools installed See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 VMware Inc 167 Workstation User s Manual To configure a virtual machine as a VNC server 1 7 Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be powered on or off Choose VM gt Settings Click the Options tab and select Remote Display Click Enable remote display After remote display is enabled and users connect to the virtual machine with a VNC client you can use the View Connected Users button on this tab to see a list of the connected users Optional Specify a port number If you want to connect to more than one virtual machine on the same host with a VNC client specify a unique port number for each virtual machine VMware suggests you use a port number in the range from 5901 to 6001 Keep in mind that certain port numbers are used by other applications and some port numbers are privileged meaning only the root or Administrator user can listen For example the VMware Management Interface uses ports 8333 and 8222 On Linux only root can listen to ports up to port number 1024 O
346. ion in the virtual machine If this problem occurs it usually occurs early in the program s execution To disable acceleration 1 Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be powered off or on 2 Choose VM gt Settings 3 Click the Options tab and select Advanced 4 Inthe Settings section select Disable acceleration and click OK This setting slows down virtual machine performance It is recommended only for getting past the problem with running the program 5 After you pass the point where the program encountered problems repeat Step 2 through Step 4 and remove the check beside Disable acceleration Use Removable Devices in a Virtual Machine 166 You can configure a number of removable devices for use in a virtual machine including floppy drives DVD CD ROM drives USB devices smart card readers and network adapters Some devices cannot be used by the host and guest or by multiple guests at the same time For example if a floppy drive is being used by the host you must connect it to the virtual machine before you can use it in the virtual machine To use it on the host again you must disconnect it from the virtual machine For information about how to add or configure specific devices see Chapter 18 Connecting Devices on page 313 and Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives on page 213 VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines To use removable devices in a virtual machine
347. ipt runs in order to cleanly shut down the guest VMware Inc 81 Workstation User s Manual operating system before powering off See Configure Power Off and Reset Options for a Virtual Machine on page 152 If you don t want to receive a prompt every time you exit Workstation or close a virtual machine or team you can set a preference to specify that you want virtual machines to always run in the background when you exit Set a Virtual Machine to Run in the Background When you close a virtual machine or team tab or when you exit Workstation if a virtual machine is still powered on you can set it to continue running in the background You can still interact with it through VNC or some other service By default when virtual machines run in the background a status icon is displayed in the notification area of the taskbar Place your mouse pointer over the icon to display a a tooltip that shows the number of virtual machines and teams that are running in the background These are the virtual machines and teams that belong to the logged in user To set a virtual machine to run in the background Do one of the following m Respond to the prompt when you close the virtual machine or exit Workstation as follows Click Run in Background m Set a Workstation preference a From the VMware Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Preferences b On the Workspace tab select Run powered on virtual machines in background after close a
348. ir to use m To create a PEM format key pair click Create New Recovery Key and complete the dialog box that appears 4 Click OK to generate the keys After several seconds the newly generated public key is listed in the field on the Recovery Key tab The two parts of the key are stored in the location you indicated with the names you specified followed by the extensions pub for the public key and priv for the private key 5 Record the private key password and location of the private key file so that you can supply it if you need to reset a password Set Activation Limit The activation limit is the maximum number of ACE instances that can be activated from the specified ACE enabled virtual machine To set an activation limit Under Activation limit in Total number of activations choose how many instances can be activated from this ACE enabled virtual machine You can use the drop down list or type in a number Active Directory Password Change Proxying You can provide additional security for your ACE instances by integrating with Active Directory You can specify password expiration and change requirements set up the domain to expire passwords and require password changes periodically These settings are in addition to ACE access control policy settings In cases in which Active Directory users need to change their passwords you can configure the ACE Management Server as an Active Directory password change proxy In t
349. irtual disk file the user sees no warning message and does not know what is causing the problem in the virtual machine To create a virtual machine for use in full screen switch mode 1 To open the virtual machine settings editor select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings 2 Use the virtual machine settings editor to make all needed configuration settings before you configure the user s computer to launch Workstation when the computer starts VMware Inc 355 Workstation User s Manual 356 You cannot change virtual machine settings by using the virtual machine settings editor when Workstation is running in full screen switch mode VMware recommends that you finish configuring the virtual machine and install the guest operating system and applications before you move the virtual machine to a user s computer Moving a Virtual Machine to a User s Computer The easiest way to move the virtual machine to a user s computer is to use a network connection to copy all the files in the virtual machine directory to a directory on the user s computer You can also move the directory by using a DVD or other removable media large enough to store the files Place each virtual machine in its own separate directory Configuring Full Screen Switch Mode You can configure full screen switch mode to specify hot keys for cycling through the currently powered on virtual machines to switch to a specific virtual machine or the host and
350. irtual machine Before you begin complete the tasks described in Prerequisites for Using a Physical Disk on page 222 To add a physical disk to an existing virtual machine 1 o N A oO PP Q N 10 11 226 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab click Add On the Hardware Type page select Hard Disk and click Next On the Select a Disk page select Use a physical disk and click Next If a warning appears click OK On the Select a Physical Disk page do the following a Choose the physical hard disk to use from the drop down list Workstation supports physical disks up to 2TB b Select whether you want to use the entire disk or only individual partitions on the disk and click Next If you selected Use individual partitions select the partitions you want to use in the virtual machine and click Next The virtual machine can access only the partitions you select The guest operating system might be able to detect other partitions but you cannot mount access or format them On the Specify Disk File page accept the default filename and location or browse to a different location Optional To specify a device node for the virtual disk or exclude disks from snapshots do the following a On the Specify Disk File page click Advanced b To change the device node select from the Virtual device node list c Toexclude disks from sn
351. irtual machine VMware Inc 203 Workstation User s Manual 204 cannot be deleted or added to a team and the virtual machine s snapshots cannot be deleted To enable template mode for a parent virtual machine of linked clones 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine to use as a parent of your linked clone The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off 2 Verify that the parent has at least one snapshot Open the snapshot manager and create a snapshot if none exists See Snapshot Manager Overview on page 193 3 Open the virtual machine settings editor by choosing VM gt Settings 4 Click the Options tab and select Advanced 5 In the Settings section click Enable Template mode to be used for cloning and click OK Use the Clone Virtual Machine Wizard The Clone Virtual Machine wizard guides you through the process of making a clone You do not need to locate and manually copy the parent virtual machine files Before making a linked clone defragment the guest operating system s drives on the parent virtual machine Use the tools in the guest operating system to run a defragmentation utility See Defragment Virtual Disks on page 217 For more information about how to ensure that a linked clone s parent virtual machine cannot be deleted see Enable Template Mode for a Parent Virtual Machine of Linked Clones on page 203 NOTE Workstation 4 virtual machines and virtual machine
352. irtual machine s applications are displayed in application windows directly on the host s desktop The virtual machine console 498 VMware Inc V X Glossary view is hidden and you can minimize the Workstation window In this mode a virtual machine s applications look just like other application windows on the host virtual disk A file or set of files appearing as a physical disk drive to a guest operating system These files can be on the host machine or on a remote file system When you configure a virtual machine with a virtual disk you can install a new operating system into the disk file without the need to repartition a physical disk or reboot the host See also physical disk virtual hardware The devices that make up a virtual machine The virtual hardware includes the virtual disk removable devices such as the DVD ROM CD ROM and floppy drives and the virtual Ethernet adapter You configure these devices with the virtual machine settings editor See also virtual machine settings editor virtual machine A virtualized x86 compatible PC environment in which a guest operating system and associated application software can run Multiple virtual machines can operate on the same host machine concurrently virtual machine configuration The specification of what virtual devices disks memory size etc are present in a virtual machine and how they are mapped to host files and devices virtual machine configuration file A fil
353. is called Power on this virtual machine The console view for the virtual machine appears Soon the boot device such as the CD ROM is detected and installation of the operating system begins On Windows 2000 guests if you entered a password when completing the New Virtual Machine wizard then when the operating system starts up it might prompt you to enter an Administrator password Use the password that you created when completing the New Virtual Machine wizard After installation is finished VMware Tools is automatically installed Now that you have a virtual machine and with a guest operating system installed you can refer to it as you read the rest of the topics in this chapter Introduction to Workstation Preferences The Preferences dialog box appears when you choose Edit gt Preferences It lets you change a number of settings that apply to Workstation itself no matter which virtual machine you are running The default settings for Workstation preferences are correct for most cases Do not change settings unless you are an experienced user NOTE Ona Linux host you must be logged in as root to save global preference changes Figure 4 8 shows an example of the Workstation preferences editor 76 VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Figure 4 8 Preference Editor s Workspace Tab on a Linux Host Preferences Workspace Input Hot Keys Display Tools Memory Priority Default
354. is completely device independent but VMware has discovered it is sensitive to the guest operating system device class and specific SCSI hardware Try any SCSI hardware and report problems to VMware technical support On Windows hosts to access host SCSI devices from within a virtual machine you must run Workstation as a user with administrator access On Linux hosts you must have read and write permissions on a given generic SCSI device to use the device within a virtual machine even if the device is a read only device such as a CD ROM drive These devices typically default to root only permissions Your administrator can create a group with access to read and write to these devices and add the appropriate users to that group Installing Required Adapters or Drivers for Some Windows Guests On older Windows guest operating systems you might need to install special host bus adapters It also contains information about a special SCSI driver for 32 bit Windows XP guests Installing a SCSI Adapter on Windows 9 x and Me Guests If you use generic SCSI devices in a Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows Me guest operating system and are experiencing problems with the devices download the latest Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 compatible host bus adapter from LSI Web site Follow the instructions on the Web site to install the driver This driver overrides what Windows chooses as the best driver but it corrects known problems Installing a SCSI Dri
355. is displayed Choose the virtual machine on which to view running processes from the Running Virtual Machines drop down menu Only virtual machines that are powered on appear in the drop down menu Set Remote Debug Monitor to the location of the Remote Debug Monitor on the host The default is the Visual Studio installed path typically Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Common7 IDE Remote Debugger x86 msvsmon exe m Use the default Remote Debug Monitor if you are debugging a 32 bit process in a 32 bit virtual machine m Optional If you want to debug a 32 bit process in a 64 bit virtual machine use the Remote Debug Monitor Program Files x86 Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Common7 IDE Remote Debugger x86 msvsmon exe m Optional If you want to debug a 64 bit process in a 64 bit virtual machine use the 64 bit Remote Debug Monitor Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Common7 IDE Remote Debugger x64 msvsmon exe Type a name for the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest The default name is VMDebug If a Remote Debug Monitor is already running on the guest you can start another one with a different name or use one that is already running Choose the process you want to attach to from the list of available processes and click Attach Optional If you want to refresh the list of running processes click Refresh 491 Workstation User s Manual 492 VMware Inc Glossary administrative lockout A global se
356. is generated when you initially power on the virtual machine As long as you do not move or copy the virtual machine to another location the UUID remains constant To set a specific UUID see Specify a UUID for a Virtual Machine on page 201 VMware Inc 199 Workstation User s Manual 200 UUID Options When You Move a Virtual Machine When you power on a virtual machine that was moved or copied to a new location the following message appears The virtual machine s configuration file has changed its location since its last power on Do you want to create a new unique identifier UUID for the virtual machine or keep the old one Which of the following options you choose depends on the cause of the changed UUID Keep If the virtual machine was moved rather than copied you can choose to keep the UUID Create If the virtual machine was copied to a new location create anew UUID so that the copy has its own UUID that does not conflict with the original virtual machine If you are not sure which option to choose the safest option is Create Always Create If the original virtual machine is being used as a master copy for more virtual machines you can create a new UUID the first time you power on each copy After you configure the virtual machine and are ready to make it a master copy move it to anew location and power it on When the message appears after you power on select Always Create The virtual machine is se
357. is information is available from the Windows Device Manager when you connect the USB device to a Windows computer b Usethe Allow and Block check boxes in the Access to individual USB device models list to specify the rule for each device in the list c Optional To change the information for a device click Remove and add the device again with the new information 5 Click OK 394 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player Setting Virtual Printer Policies VMware ACE includes a virtual printer that allows users to print to any printer available to the host computer without installing additional drivers in the virtual machine The virtual printer feature is available for ACE instances running with these Windows host and guest operating systems m Host Windows 2000 XP 2003 or Vista 32 bit only m Guest Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista 32 and 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 32 bit only Ubuntu and SUSE After you enable the virtual printer policy a serial port is added to the virtual machine This serial port appears on the Hardware tab of the virtual machine settings editor with the Used by Virtual Printer summary You can only add or remove this serial port by enabling or disabling the option in the virtual printer policy NOTE If the ACE enabled virtual machine already has four serial ports you cannot add another serial port for the virtual printer To enable the virtua
358. is installed The default installation directory is C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Specify Deployment Settings for Instance Customization Before you begin install all required files for customization scripts See Prerequisites for Using Instance Customization on page 416 VMware Inc 417 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 418 To specify deployment settings for instance customization 1 Select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose VM gt ACE gt Deployment Settings Select Instance Customization and complete the settings panel Select System Options and complete the settings panel Use the following information to complete the fields m System options You can use placeholder variables for the system name organization name and computer name For details on the placeholder variables including an example see Placeholder Values to Use in Instance Customization on page 419 V CAUTION The Mini Setup process fails if you enter administrator in the Name field or the Computer Name field or for Windows Vista guests if the computer name is more than 15 characters If you set the logon_user placeholder in those fields and the placeholder variable resolves to administrator the software automatically changes the value to a random alphanumeric string of 10 characters m Security ID A new SID is always generated for Windows Vista guests regardless of the setting you choose here
359. isplays the following message Msvsmon started a new server named lt guest_name gt 4015 Authentication is disabled Waiting for new connections Troubleshooting Tips This section contains additional information that enables you to use the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger successfully Changing Shortcut Keys If you change the shortcut keys for VMDebugger commands in Tools gt Options gt Keyboard the tooltips for the VMware menu and toolbar will not reflect the changes until you restart Visual Studio VMware Inc 483 Workstation User s Manual 484 Reinstalling VMware Tools If the Debugging Session Does Not Start If the debugging session fails to start and the last message in the VMware output window and log file is Waiting for VMware Tools to start check whether the guest system has the latest VMware Tools installed and running If not upgrade to the latest version of VMware Tools See VMware Tools Update Process on page 117 Exiting Visual Studio Before Powering Off a Virtual Machine If you attempt to exit Visual Studio after starting a debugging session but before logging in or running VMware Tools on the guest Visual Studio will not exit until the virtual machine is powered off or the user is logged in to the guest operating system Unloading the VMDebugger Add in To permanently uninstall the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger run the Workstation installation program select Modify on the
360. isting for the controller and choose Properties 4 Click the Driver tab If the driver provider shown on the tab is Microsoft you have the correct driver and do not need to replace it 5 If the driver provider is not Microsoft download and install the latest USB driver for your host operating system from the Microsoft Web site Details are available in Microsoft knowledge base article 319973 Access and Use a USB Device on a Linux Host On Linux hosts Workstation uses the USB device file system to connect to USB devices In most Linux systems that support USB the USB device file system is located in proc bus usb VMware Inc 339 Workstation User s Manual 340 If the host uses a different path to the USB device file system you must mount the USB file system to the expected location To access and use a USB device on a Linux host 1 Run the following command as root mount t usbfs none proc bus usb 2 If the virtual machine does not have a USB controller add it by using the Add Hardware wizard in Workstation Do not attempt to add a USB drive s device node directory for example dev sda to the virtual machine as a hard disk See Add a USB Controller to a Virtual Machine on page 337 How Device Control Is Shared Between Host and Guest Only the host or the guest can have control of a USB device at any one time Device control operates differently depending on whether the host is a Linux or a Windows computer
361. it or on the primary domain controller For details about how to change the policy see the following Microsoft articles m Local Security Policies Go to the Microsoft Support site enter the Microsoft knowledge base article ID 175468 in the search criteria and click on the first search result m PDC Security Policies Go to the Microsoft TechNet site and enter Domain controller Refuse machine account password changes in the search criteria Issues with Domain Validation or Name Resolution Problem When you try to join an ACE enabled virtual machine to a domain domain validation or name resolution does not work Description Some ACE enabled virtual machines with certain network configurations might demonstrate these problems Solution Consult the Microsoft knowledge base article Go to the Microsoft Support site enter the Microsoft knowledge base article ID 314108 in the search criteria and click on the first search result VMware Inc 453 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Issues with Domain Joins for Windows Vista Guests Problem An ACE instance running under a Windows Vista guest operating system cannot join the local domain and that instance customization failed with the message NetDomainJoin function Error 1722 Could not join domain Description ACE instances running in the Windows Vista operating system might have this problem Solution Tell the user to power off the instance and power it on again to
362. ives on page 228 d Click Finish Optional If you select Use ISO image a Enter the path and filename for the image file or browse to the file b Tonotconnectthe CD drive when the virtual machine starts deselect Connect at power on c To specify which device node the drive uses in the virtual machine click Advanced d Click Finish The drive is set up initially so that it appears as an IDE drive to the guest operating system Optional To make the drive appear to the guest operating system as a SCSI drive click the entry for that drive in the virtual machine settings editor and edit the settings in the panel on the right Legacy Emulation for DVD and CD Drives In normal mode that is not legacy emulation mode the guest operating system communicates directly with the CD or DVD drive This direct communication enables VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives you to read multisession CDs perform digital audio extraction view videos and use CD and DVD writers to burn discs Legacy emulation mode enables you to read only from data discs in the DVD or CD drive It does not provide the other capabilities of normal mode Use legacy emulation mode to work around direct communication problems between a guest operating system and a DVD or CD drive Use the virtual machine settings editor VM gt Settings to set the Legacy emulation option for DVD and CD drives attached to the virtual machine m On Window
363. ix A Workstation Command Line Reference on page 455 Delete a Virtual Machine You can use a Workstation command to delete a virtual machine and all its files from the host file system If instead of deleting the virtual machine altogether you want to remove it from the Favorites list or from a team see Remove an Item from the Favorites List on page 74 and Remove a Virtual Machine from a Team on page 251 Open the team as described in Open a Team and Add It to the Favorites List on page 247 In the summary view for the team in the Virtual Machines and LAN Segments section right click the name of the virtual machine and choose Remove from Team V CAUTION Do not delete a virtual machine if it was used to make a linked clone virtual machine and you still want to use the linked clone If the linked clone cannot find the virtual disk files from the parent virtual machine the linked clone will no longer work VMware Inc 153 Workstation User s Manual To delete a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Choose VM gt Delete from Disk Controlling the Display 154 You can control the Workstation display to suit the way you prefer to work with virtual machines For example you can use full screen mode to hide the host user interface altogether or you can use unity mode so that applications from the virtual machine appear on the host desktop and
364. izes as you work Scroll bars appear in the console when the Workstation console is smaller than the guest operating system display A black border appears in the console when the console is larger than the guest operating system display The Autofit and Fit commands are described Table 8 1 Table 8 1 Autofit and Fit Commands View Menu Command Description Autofit Window Causes the Workstation console to maintain the size of the virtual machine s display resolution If the guest operating system changes its resolution the Workstation console resizes to match the new resolution Autofit Guest Causes the virtual machine to resize the guest display resolution to match the size of the Workstation console Fit Window Now Causes the Workstation console to match the current display size of the guest operating system Fit Guest Now Causes the guest operating system display size to match the current Workstation console An Autofit command is toggled on or off each time you select it If Autofit Window and Autofit Guest are toggled on you can manually resize the Workstation console but the guest operating system can also resize the Workstation console VMware Inc 163 Workstation User s Manual 164 The Fit Window Now or Fit Guest Now command is redundant if the corresponding Autofit command is active because the console and the guest operating system display are the same size Considerations for Display Resizing in Linu
365. k address translation NAT A type of network connection that allows you to connect your virtual machines to an external network when you have only one IP network address and that address is used by the host computer If you use NAT your virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network Instead a separate private network is set up on the host computer Your virtual machine gets an address on that network from the VMware virtual DHCP server The VMware NAT device passes network data between one or more virtual machines and the external network It identifies incoming data packets intended for each virtual machine and sends them to the correct destination VMware Inc 495 Workstation User s Manual 496 New Virtual Machine wizard A point and click interface for convenient easy creation of a virtual machine configuration It creates files that define the virtual machine including a virtual machine configuration file and optionally a virtual disk or physical disk file See also virtual machine settings editor NIC network interface card An expansion board that provides a dedicated connection between a computer and a network Also called a network adapter nonpersistent mode A disk mode in which all disk writes issued by software running inside a virtual machine appear to be written to the independent disk but are in fact discarded after the virtual machine is powered off As a result a virtual disk
366. ke a meaningful key at least 16 bytes VMware Inc my my if my if Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player user_map charlie gt E1C4F612135B4D98A33B2C9BD595025D kathy gt C79AFFEF773D61225751C2566858DB08 beth gt 05B169B439B26AAB2EA4F755B7E3800C ernie gt 8CE63D4AA2068BD8AFF2D1B05F3495A5 bert gt 172B1619B2EFBEQE4F381AA1C428F049 username ENV TEST_USERNAME C defined username print You should set the TEST_USERNAME environment variable n exit 1 key_seed user_map username C defined key_seed print Unrecognized username n exit 1 print key_seed exit 0 Example of a Host to Guest Data Script The following example is written in Perl It is installed by Workstation as sampleQuarantine pl You need a Perl interpreter to run this script HH HH HH HR HH HHH HHH HH HHH VMware Inc VMware Sample Script Sample script for ACE Host Guest Data script Description This sample script passes information defined on the host to the guest It assumes that the machine name is defined in the environment variable TEST_MACHINENAME and that the asset tag is defined in the environment variable TEST_ASSETTAG These are fictitious variables used for this sample Input to script None Returns if successful Expected output 405 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 406 4 Set of acceptable key va
367. kes over the display immediately instead of running invisibly until the user switches to it later e Optional To start a virtual machine and specify that its direct switch key combination is Ctrl Shift F1 enter the following command on one line vmware fullscreen poweron directkey 0x70 0x6 lt config file gt VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts Stop a Virtual Machine To stop a virtual machine m Use either of the following commands to stop the specified virtual machine m vmware fullscreen poweroff lt config_file gt m vmware fullscreen poweroff lt alias gt You can specify the path to the configuration vmx file or you can specify the alias if you used name when you started the virtual machine Stop All Virtual Machines To stop all virtual machines m Use the following command to stop all virtual machines cleanly vmware fullIlscreen exit Workstation exits when all the virtual machines are powered off Switch Among Virtual Machines and the Host Several commands are available to switch among virtual machines and the host Depending on which command you use you can switch to the specified virtual machine to the host operating system or to the next machine virtual machine or host in the cycling order A virtual machine must be powered on before you can switch to it When specifying a virtual machine you can specify the path to the configuration vmx file
368. keys for switching to other virtual machines or the host computer first see the following sections in the order listed m Virtual Key Codes on page 357 m Hot Key for Cycling Through Virtual Machines and the Host Computer on page 359 m Host Operating System Hot Key on page 360 m Other Entries in the Global Configuration File on page 360 4 Save and close the file 5 Set permissions on this file so that other users cannot change it 6 Open the preferences ini file with a text editor and add the following lines pref fullScreen v5 TRUE pref autoFitFullScreen fitGuestToHost On most Windows hosts this file is located in USERPROFILE Application Data VMware preferences ini On Windows Vista hosts this file is located in USERPROFILE AppData Roaming VMware preferences ini To specify a hot key for switching to a specific virtual machine see Virtual Machine Hot Key on page 360 Virtual Key Codes The hot key entries described in this section require you to enter a virtual key code as part of the value for an option Virtual key codes use hexadecimal format which is a hexadecimal number preceded by 0x For example to use the virtual key code of 5A as a value type Ox5A VMware Inc 357 Workstation User s Manual 358 Microsoft provides a reference list of virtual key codes To access this reference list enter the keyword virtual key codes on the MSDN Web site The hot key entries als
369. king Configuration The virtual networking components provided by Workstation make it possible for you to create sophisticated virtual networks The virtual networks can be connected to one or more external networks or they can run entirely on the host computer On Windows hosts you can use the virtual network editor to access multiple network cards in your host and create multiple virtual networks Before attempting to set up complex virtual networks you should have a good understanding of how to configure network devices in your host and guest operating systems The example described in this section illustrates most of the ways you can combine devices on a virtual network Other custom configurations are described in Advanced Virtual Networking on page 277 and Using NAT on page 292 In this configuration a Web server connects through a firewall to an external network An administrator s computer connects to the Web server through a second firewall Figure 15 4 Custom Configuration That Uses Two Firewalls host network adapter virtual bridge QR RRR virtual virtual network switch virtual virtual network VMnet0 network network adapter adapter adapter QOS ERE CA i virtual network switch virtual machine 1 Mnet2 firewall virtual machine 2 Web server virtual network switch VMnet3 virtual network LA LALA AA Ati adapter virtual virtual network network adapter adapter
370. kstation 2 or 3 virtual machine are not supported in Workstation 6 0 x and 6 5 See Removing Workstation 2 or 3 to Install Workstation 6 x on page 52 To prepare for the upgrade 1 Ifa virtual machine was created with a version of Workstation earlier than Workstation 5 5 and it has a snapshot delete the snapshot before upgrading See Delete a Snapshot or a Recording on page 197 VMware Inc 51 Workstation User s Manual 2 If any virtual machines are suspended resume them shut down the guest operating system and power them off 3 If any virtual machines are running in the background start them in Workstation and power them off See Start a Virtual Machine That Is Running in the Background on page 150 4 Back up the virtual machines by making backup copies of all the files in the virtual machine directories This includes vmdk or dsk files vmx or cfg files and nvram files Depending on your upgrade path you might not be able to run your virtual machines under both Workstation 6 5 and your previous version of Workstation 5 For upgrades from Workstation 4 5 x or 6 0 x if you bridged mapped virtual networks to specific physical or virtual adapters write down the settings you used Although Workstation 6 5 generally preserves network settings during the upgrade it cannot preserve bridge settings created with Workstation 4 5 x or 6 0 x You can now use one of the following platform specific
371. l Disks in a Virtual Machine 221 Adding DVD CD ROM and Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine 227 Add DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine 227 Add Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine 229 Connect a CD ROM DVD or Floppy Drive to an Image File 230 Using VMware Virtual Disk Manager 231 Using Dual Boot Computers with Virtual Machines 231 Legacy Virtual Disks 231 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity 233 Uses of the Record Replay Feature 233 Physical and Virtual Hardware Requirements 234 Enabling Record Replay for a Virtual Machine 235 Record Control Dialog Box Features 236 Replay Control Dialog Box Features 237 Making a Recording 238 Replaying a Recording 239 Browsing a Recording 240 Creating an Execution Trace File of a Recording 240 Maintenance Tasks for Using Recordings 241 Deleting a Recording 241 Disabling Periodic Screenshots 242 Set the Debugging Mode 242 Configuring Teams 245 Benefits of Using Teams 245 Managing Teams 246 Create a Team 246 Open a Team and Add It to the Favorites List 247 Change the Name ofa Team 248 Power Off or Close a Team 248 Delete a Team 249 Summary and Console Views for Teams and Their Virtual Machines 249 VMware Inc 9 Workstation User s Manual Managing the Members ofa Team 251 Add a Virtual Machine to a Team 251 Remove a Virtual Machine from a Team 251 Specify the Startup Sequence fora Team 252 Power Operations for Teams and Their Members 253 PowerOnaTeam 253 Suspend or Resume a Team 253
372. l machine occasionally the device does not appear in the list of available SCSI devices This topic describes how to resolve this issue Before you begin troubleshooting this problem you might need to know the following The SCSI bus number the device uses on the host system The SCSI bus is assigned a number by the host operating system after all IDE buses have been assigned numbers For example if you have two IDE buses they are numbered 0 and 1 The first SCSI bus is assigned bus number 2 If you cannot determine the SCSI bus number try using a third party tool such as winobj to determine this information You can download winobj for free from the Windows Sysinternals Web site The target ID the device uses in the virtual machine and on the host This ID is usually set by some jumpers or switches on the device Refer to the owner s manual for the device for information on how to determine the target ID The root causes or reasons Workstation cannot detect a device include the following A driver for that device is not installed on the host A driver on the host prevents the device from being detected The virtual machine uses a device for which there are no drivers available to the host operating system In this case you need to add the device manually to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file Adding a device in this manner is recommended for advanced users only To troubleshoot issues with detecting generic SCSI dev
373. l machine on a host computer Each time you press the specified hot key the screen display switches to that of the specified virtual machine You can also specify a hot key for switching directly to the host operating system VMware Inc 359 Workstation User s Manual Virtual Machine Hot Key You define the hot key used to switch to a virtual machine by adding a local configuration setting Local configuration settings are made in the configuration file for a particular virtual machine The local configuration file is in the virtual machine s directory The filename has a vmx extension Follow this format for an entry in either configuration file is lt option gt lt value gt Entries in the configuration files can appear in any order The value of this option defines the hot key It is specified as lt key gt lt modifier gt It has no default For example to use Ctrl Shift F1 to switch to a particular virtual machine add the following line to that virtual machine s vmx file or modify its value if the option is already listed FullScreenSwitch directKey 0x70 0x6 If any particular virtual machine is not running pressing the hot key for that virtual machine has no effect Host Operating System Hot Key You define the hot key used to switch to the host operating system by adding a line to the global configuration file config ini The value of this option defines the hot key It is specified as lt key gt lt mo
374. l printer delete an existing serial port After they install the ACE instance end users can use the VMware Player gt Virtual Printers menu command to specify which printers from the host are available to the guest If end users on Windows hosts have problems make sure the TP AutoConnect Service Windows service is started Setting Runtime Preferences Policies You can set options on the runtime preferences policy page to specify which Workstation runtime attributes the user can choose Runtime Preferences Settings Use the following information to decide which features are enabled m Always run in full screen VMware Player fills the full screen when it starts hiding the host operating system You might find this useful for example to avoid confusion about the differences between the host system environment and that of the ACE instance Users can return to the host operating system by clicking the minimize button on the toolbar If the mouse pointer is not available pressing Ctrl Alt minimizes the display VMware Inc 395 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 396 Always hide the full screen toolbar End users cannot display the toolbar that usually appears at the top of the screen when in full screen mode Always run in appliance view The ACE instance opens in appliance view and the user cannot change to console view To use this setting you must also enable appliance view for the virtual machine See Set U
375. lation media already contains a product key m A name for registering the operating system For Windows guests do not use the name Administrator or Guest If you use one of these names you will receive an error message during installation of the operating system and be prompted to enter a different name m Optional Password On Windows operating systems other than Windows 2000 the password you enter here is used for an account with Administrator permissions On Windows 2000 the password you enter here is used for the Administrator account This page appears for some Windows operating systems On the Name the Virtual Machine page type a name select a folder for the virtual machine and click Next The name you provide here is used if you add this virtual machine to the VMware Workstation Favorites list This name is also used as the name of the folder where all the files associated with this virtual machine are stored On the Specify Disk Capacity page enter the size of the virtual disk and click Next See Disk Capacity on page 91 and Pocket ACE Disk Size Calculator on Windows Only on page 91 Optional On the Ready to Create Virtual Machine page if you want to change or add virtual hardware devices click Customize Hardware The virtual hardware settings editor appears For information about the settings panels in this editor click Help in the dialog box Click Finish If you entered easy install infor
376. layer installing on a Linux host 445 quitting 449 running 210 sharing virtual machines with 210 starting 447 stopping 449 VMware Tools About tab 126 automated install 108 command line interface 133 configuring 121 configuring in a Netware virtual machine 126 control panel 121 defined 500 device drivers 104 Devices tab 124 for FreeBSD guests 114 for Linux guests 110 for NetWare guests 116 for Solaris guests 113 installing from the command line with the RPM installer 111 VMware Inc installing from the command line with the tar installer 111 installing on Windows guests 106 modifying installation 120 Options tab 122 running scripts during power state changes 127 Scripts tab 124 Shared Folders tab 125 Shrink tab 125 silent install 108 taskbar icon displaying 122 uninstalling 120 updating 117 using from command line 126 VMware user process 105 vmwtool commands 126 VMware Tools service executing commands on halt or reboot 130 overview of 104 passing strings from the host 131 VMware Tools update option 117 VMware user process in VMware Tools 105 vmware user starting manually 117 vmware acetool using 450 VMware config pl file 46 vmware fullscreen log file 364 vmwtool 126 vmx file 100 vmxf file 100 VNC setting a keyboard map for 325 setting a virtual machine to act asa VNC server 167 VProbes 173 v scan code defined 329 VMware Inc Index table of codes 331 W
377. lder virtual machines To upgrade your virtual machines to Workstation 6 see Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 If you decide not to upgrade a virtual machine VMware recommends that you upgrade VMware Tools to the latest version See VMware Tools Update Process on page 117 Do not remove the older version of VMware Tools before installing the new version You can also use Workstation 6 to create a version 4 or 5 virtual machines See Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Custom Setup on page 94 NOTE If you have Workstation 2 or 3 virtual machines that you want to use with Workstation 6 upgrade the virtual machines to at least Workstation version 4 before you attempt to power them on with Workstation 6 232 VMware Inc Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity The record replay feature you to record all of a Workstation 5 6 or 6 5 virtual machine s activity over a period of time This chapter includes the following topics Uses of the Record Replay Feature on page 233 Physical and Virtual Hardware Requirements on page 234 Enabling Record Replay for a Virtual Machine on page 235 Making a Recording on page 238 Replaying a Recording on page 239 Creating an Execution Trace File of a Recording on page 240 Maintenance Tasks for Using Recordings on page 241 Uses of the Record Replay Feature Unlike Workstation s movie capture feature the
378. le by using startx and getting a desktop and not using xdm kdm or gdm vmware guestd does not start and stop vmware user and you must do it manually To start vmware user manually if you do not use a session manager Add vmware user to the appropriate X startup script The vmware user program is located in the directory where you selected to install binary programs which defaults to usr bin The startup script that needs to be modified depends on your particular system VMware Tools Update Process Because VMware Tools installers ISO images are installed with VMware Workstation when you update to a new version of Workstation a check is performed to determine if anew version of VMware Tools is available Although you can set Workstation to check regularly for Workstation updates the guest operating system checks for VMware Tools updates only when you power on a virtual machine It compares its version of VMware Tools against the version that is installed on the host VMware Inc 117 Workstation User s Manual 118 For VMware Tools updates on Linux and Windows guests you can set the guest to update automatically or you can perform a manual update On other guests you must manually update When you update VMware Tools any changes you made to the default scripts are overwritten Any custom scripts you created remain untouched but do not benefit from any underlying changes that enhance the default scripts How Automatic Upda
379. led on the host computer The following procedure describes an installation from a CD ROM disc If you downloaded the software the steps are the same except that you start from the directory where you saved the installer file you downloaded not from the Linux directory on the CD To install Workstation on a Linux host 1 VMware Inc Log on to your Linux host with the user name you plan to use when running Workstation In a terminal window use the following command to become root so you can perform the initial installation steps su Mount the Workstation CD ROM Change to the Linux directory on the CD 45 Workstation User s Manual 46 Continue installation with the appropriate section for your desired installer m Using the tar Installer on page 46 m Using the RPM Installer on page 46 Using the tar Installer You can skip the steps for copying and unpacking the archive and install directly from the vmware distrib directory on the CD a Copy the tar archive to a temporary directory on your hard drive for example tmp cp VMware lt xxxx gt tar gz tmp b Change to this temporary directory cd tmp c Unpack the archive tar zxpf VMware lt xxxx gt tar gz d Change to the installation directory cd vmware distrib e Run the installation program vmware install pl f Accept the default directories for the binary files library files manual files documentation files and init scri
380. les on a Windows XP system is C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware VMware ACE lt ACE_name gt 3 To customize the package enter the following command msiexec i package msi lt installation_options gt Enter the command on one line The installation options follow VMware Inc 443 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Option Description DESKTOP_SHORTCUTS When set to 0 skips installation of the ACE instance shortcut on the desktop The default is 1 INSTALLDIR Sets the root installation directory for the ACE instance PLAYER_INSTALLDIR Sets the root installation directory for the VMware Player application The following example command illustrates the options and their usage msiexec i package msi DESKTOP_SHORTCUTS 0 INSTALLDIR G packages PLAYER_INSTALLDIR C VMware VMware Player qn Uninstall VMware Player or an ACE instance from a Windows Host Uninstalling VMware Player does not uninstall the ACE instance Only the Administrator user or a user who is a member of the Windows Administrators group can uninstall VMware Player Uninstalling an ACE instance does not uninstall the VMware Player application When you remove an ACE instance the ACE instance s data files shortcuts and registry entries are removed You do not need to be an Administrator user to uninstall an ACE instance To uninstall VMware Player or an ACE instance from a Windows host 1 Go to Start gt Control Panel gt
381. licy for this feature turn on the enhanced keyboard filter with the virtual machine settings editor See Use the Enhanced Virtual Keyboard for Windows Hosts on page 324 When the ACE instance is installed and the guest operating system starts for the first time a special keyboard filter driver is installed on the host After installation the end user must restart the host computer Keyboard filtering is then enabled When a suspected keylogger is detected Keystroke logging is a method of recording user keystrokes including determining user passwords VMware ACE now includes a keylogger detection feature that can detect keyloggers below VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player Win32 It cannot detect user level keyloggers If you select Ask user what to do end users can exit or continue using the virtual machine if a keylogger is detected This feature is experimental in this beta release Exit Behavior Settings Use the following information to decide which features are enabled m When closing a non Pocket ACE instance If you select User Preference the user has access to Suspend and Power off in the Preferences dialog box in VMware Player VMware Player gt Preferences If you select one of the other choices the end user s virtual machine is suspended or powered off when the user chooses VMware Player gt Exit or clicks the close box in VMware Player m When closing a Pocke
382. lly Install VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System 106 Configure the Video Driver on Older Versions of Windows 107 Automate the Installation of VMware Tools in a Windows Guest 108 Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest Within X by Using the RPM Installer 110 Install VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar or RPM Installer 111 Install VMware Tools in a Solaris Guest 113 Install VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Guest 114 Install VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine 116 Start vmware user Manually If You Do Not Use a Session Manager on UNIX 117 Workstation User s Manual VMware Tools Update Process 117 How Automatic Updates Occur 118 How You Are Notified to Do a Manual Update 118 Use Global Settings to Update VMware Tools Automatically 119 Set Autoupdate Options for Each Virtual Machine 119 Update VMware Tools in Older Windows Virtual Machines 120 Uninstall VMware Tools 120 Repair or Change Installed Modules 120 Open the VMware Tools Control Panel 121 Use the Windows Control Panel to Display the VMware Tools Taskbar Icon 122 Options Tab Settings 122 Devices Tab Settings 124 Scripts Tab Settings 124 Shared Folders Tab Information 125 Shrink Tab Settings 125 About Tab 126 Configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest 126 Customizations to VMware Tools 127 How VMware Tools Scripts Affect Power States 127 Execute Commands After You Power Off or Reset a Virtual Machine 130 Passing a String from the Host to the Guest at Startup
383. lowing command to determine the owner and group for the device ls la dev parporto The third and fourth columns of the output show the owner and group respectively In most cases the owner of the device is root and the associated group is lp To add the user to the device group become the root user and open the etc group file with a text editor On the line starting with 1p which defines the 1p group add the Workstation user s user name The following line provides an example for a user whose user name is userj 1p 7 daemon lp userj The next time the user logs on to the host the changes take effect Using Serial Ports A Workstation virtual machine can use up to four virtual serial ports The virtual serial ports can be configured in several ways Connect a virtual serial port to a physical serial port on the host computer Connect a virtual serial port to a file on the host computer Make a direct connection between two virtual machines or between a virtual machine and an application running on the host computer You can also select whether to connect the virtual serial port when you power on the virtual machine Add a Virtual Serial Port to a Virtual Machine You can set up a virtual serial port to use a physical serial port on the host if you want to use a device such as an external modem or hand held device in a virtual machine 318 VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices You can also set up a vir
384. lso tells how to connect virtual CD ROM or DVD drives and floppy drives to image files Add DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine You can add one or more DVD or CD drives to your virtual machine You can connect the virtual DVD or CD drive to a physical drive on the host machine or to an ISO image file You can configure the virtual DVD or CD drive as either IDE or SCSI regardless of the type of physical drive you connect it to For example if your host computer has an IDE CD drive you can set up the virtual machine drive as either SCSI or IDE and connect it to the host drive The same is true if the physical drive on the host is a SCSI drive VMware Inc 227 Workstation User s Manual 228 To add a DVD or CD drive to a virtual machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab click Add On the Hardware Type page select DVD CD ROM Drive and click Next Make a selection on the Select a Drive Connection page and click Next Optional If you select Use physical drive a Choose a drive from the drop down list or choose Auto detect b Tonot connect the CD drive when the virtual machine starts deselect Connect at power on c To specify which device node the drive uses in the virtual machine click Advanced Select Legacy emulation only if you experienced problems using normal mode See Legacy Emulation for DVD and CD Dr
385. lue pairs where the values are fetched from the 4 environment variables These values can be retrieved from within the Guest operating system using the VMware Tools my machine_name ENV TEST_MACHINENAME my asset_tag ENV TEST_ASSETTAG my host_mac ENV TEST_MACHINEMAC if defined machine_name print machine id machine_name n if defined asset_tag print guestinfo assetTag asset_tag n if defined host_mac printf guestinfo mac host_mac n exit 0 Example of a Power On Hook Script The following example is written in Perl It is installed by Workstation as sampleQuarantine pl You need a Perl interpreter to run this script HHH HR HR HHH HHH HHH HHH HH RH FH VMware Sample Script Sample script for ACE power on hook Description This sample script implements a power on hook for ACE This can be used in addition to authentication to control the circumstances under which an ACE is allowed to run This script assumes that the username is defined in the environment variable TEST_USERNAME a ficticious environment variable used for this sample and returns TRUE if the user is allowed to run and FALSE otherwise Input to script None Returns TRUE if username is on white list FALSE if username is not on white list or is undefined Expected output One of the strings TRUE or FALSE VMware Inc my my if my if Chapter 21 Setting and Us
386. ly slowly under some workloads and you want to determine the cause use statistics mode so that you can send the statistics file to VMware technical support VMware Inc Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity After you generate some debugging information run the vm support script as described in Reporting Problems on page 17 and send the output to VMware technical support When the cause and remedy for an issue have been found return to normal mode To set a debugging mode 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off 2 Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens 3 Click the Options tab and select Advanced 4 Inthe Settings section set the Gather debugging information control to the desired mode and click OK VMware Inc 243 Workstation User s Manual 244 VMware Inc Configuring Teams This chapter describes what virtual machine teams are used for how to create them and how to configure them This chapter includes the following topics Benefits of Using Teams on page 245 Managing Teams on page 246 Summary and Console Views for Teams and Their Virtual Machines on page 249 Managing the Members of a Team on page 251 Power Operations for Teams and Their Members on page 253 Working with Team Networks on page 254 Cloning and Taking Snapshots of Team Virtual Ma
387. m NAT C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware vmnetnat conf For more information about this file see Contents of the NAT Configuration File on page 298 m DHCP C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware vmnetdhcp conf 296 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking You can change many key NAT and DCHP settings using the virtual network settings editor Edit gt Virtual Network Settings NOTE If you make manual changes to the configuration files those changes might be lost when you use the virtual network settings editor Make backup copies of the files before changing any settings in the virtual network settings editor You can then copy your manual changes back into the appropriate configuration files Specifying Connections from Ports Below 1024 When a client machine makes a TCP or UDP connection to a server the connection comes from a particular port on the client the source port and connects to a particular port on the server the destination port For security reasons some servers accept connections only from source ports below 1024 You might see this configuration on machines used as NFS file servers for example If a virtual machine using NAT attempts to connect to a server that requires the client to use a source port below 1024 it is important that the NAT device forward the request from a port below 1024 You can specify this behavior in the vmnetnat conf f
388. m a local or remote physical machine or from virtual machines and system images that were originally created by using other products than VMware products You can also use the wizard to change a virtual machine using one VMware format to that using another For example you can copy a VMware Server virtual machine and use it to create an ESX virtual machine To use other features of VMware Converter such as its task manager or the ability to import more than one virtual machine at a time download the VMware Converter Supported Source Machines The VMware Conversion wizard in Workstation allows you to import the following types of physical and virtual machines m Physical machines m Windows 2000 m Windows 2003 32 bit and 64 bit m Windows XP Professional 32 bit and 64 bit NOTE The VMware Conversion wizard included with Workstation does not convert Windows Vista physical machines to virtual machines It also does not support converting Windows Vista images m VMware virtual machines vmx and vmtn files m Workstation 4 x 5 x and 6 0 x for this beta release Workstation 6 5 virtual machines are not yet supported VMware Fusion 1 x VMware Player 1 x and 2 x ESX Server 3 x ESX Server 2 5 x if the virtual machine is managed with VirtualCenter 2 x VMware Inc 139 Workstation User s Manual m GSX Server 3 x m VMware Server 1 x m VirtualCenter 2 x m Virtual appliances Appliances that use open virtual machin
389. maller than the host s display mode try adding the following line to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file mks maxRefreshRate 1000 For more information about the configuration file see Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine on page 100 Optional To switch from full screen mode back to windowed mode which shows your virtual machine inside a Workstation window again press Ctrl Alt Enter Optional To hide the full screen toolbar and menus while you are using full screen mode click the push pin icon and move your mouse pointer off of the toolbar This action unpins the toolbar The toolbar slides up to the top of the monitor and disappears To display the toolbar again move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen until the toolbar appears Optional To switch from one powered on virtual machine to another while in full screen mode do one of the following m To go to a specific powered on virtual machine click the virtual machine arrow as shown in Figure 8 1 and select the virtual machine m To go to the next virtual machine press Ctrl Alt right arrow or press Ctrl Alttleft arrow to go to the previous virtual machine Optional Use the VM menu on the toolbar to access any of the commands that you normally see in the Workstation VM menu 157 Workstation User s Manual 158 To display the virtual machine across two or more monitors in full screen mode see Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual
390. mation the unattended installation of the operating system and VMware Tools begins 93 Workstation User s Manual 94 After the virtual machine is created if you did use the easy install feature continue on to Install a Guest Operating System Manually on page 96 Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Custom Setup If you are not sure whether to use this procedure see Typical Versus Custom Configurations on page 87 Before you begin determine what type of media to use for installing the operating system in the virtual machine and do one of the following If you plan to use an installation CD or DVD for installing the guest operating system insert the CD or DVD in the host s CD ROM drive If you plan to use an ISO image file make sure the file is accessible to the host To create a virtual machine by using the custom setup 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose File gt New gt Virtual Machine to start the New Virtual Machine wizard On the Welcome page select Custom and click Next On the Choose the Virtual Machine Hardware Compatibility page specify whether you want to create a Workstation 4 5 6 or 6 5 virtual machine select the appropriate compatibility check boxes and click Next When you make a selection from the Hardware Compatibility list you see a list of other VMware products and versions that are compatible with your selection You also see a list of features that are not available fo
391. mber Click inside the VMware Player window to begin using the guest operating system and the applications installed in the ACE instance You can use the operating system and applications just as you would if they were running directly on a physical computer Optional To change a password that you created choose VMware Player gt Change Password Optional For more information about using VMware Player choose VMware Player gt Help Install an ACE Client License An ACE client license is a device specific license Devices include PCs laptops and portable media devices such as USB flash drives storing a Pocket ACE The details of 448 VMware Inc Chapter 24 Installing ACE Instances the licensing terms are provided in the end user license agreement EULA for ACE published on www vmware com A licensed device can run any number of ACE instances The ACE client license is associated with the device it is installed on and is not restricted to a specific ACE instance If you purchase a volume license you do not need to install client licenses To install an ACE client license 1 Obtain the ACE client license serial number from your ACE administrator 2 Double click the desktop shortcut for the installed ACE instance 3 At the prompt enter the serial number in the appropriate field and enter your name and the organization name in the dialog box 4 Click OK Change the ACE Client License To change the ACE Clien
392. mplementations abort if their configuration files do not include a subnet specification for the interface even if dhcpd is not supposed to respond to messages that arrive through the interface The best solution is to add a line in the following format to the dhcpd configuration file subnet lt net gt 0 netmask 255 255 255 0 lt net gt is the network number assigned to your host only network for example 192 168 0 This line in the configuration file informs dhcpd about the host only network and tells it explicitly not to respond to any DHCP requests it sees coming from it An alternative solution is to explicitly state the set of network interfaces that you want dhcpd to listen to each time you start the program For example if your machine has one Ethernet interface eth0 each time you start dhcpd list it on the command line dhcpd etho This keeps dhcpd from probing for all available network interfaces If these solutions do not work for your DHCP server program it is probably an old DHCP server You can try upgrading to a more current version such as the DHCP software available from the Internet Systems Consortium ISC web site DHCP and Dynamic Domain Name Service DDNS Use DHCP to supply IP addresses as well as other information such as the identity of a host running a name server and the nearest router or gateway The DHCP server in Workstation does not provide a means to dynamically establish a relationship between the
393. mputer mks CtIALtDel ignore Set this property to TRUE so that dialog boxes usually generated by Microsoft Windows Secure Attention Sequence SAS are not displayed but are passed on to the guest if the guest has keyboard focus mks fullscreen allScreenSaver Set this property to TRUE to allow the host operating system to run its screen saver when it determines that the machine is idle Starting and Stopping Virtual Machines on a User s Computer Use the vmware fullIscreen command to run VMware Workstation in full screen switch mode and to start and stop virtual machines on a user s computer The command can pass certain information to the virtual machine when it starts As administrator you must decide how to issue the command For example you can use a custom application or script running on the host operating system to issue one or more vmware fullscreen commands Or you can include the command to start a virtual machine in a shortcut in the host operating system s startup group so the virtual machine starts when the user logs in to the host computer Issue the vmware fullscreen command once for each virtual machine you want to start or stop VMware Inc 361 Workstation User s Manual Start a Virtual Machine 1 362 Enter the vmware ful screen command to power on a virtual machine vmware fullscreen poweron lt config file gt Provide the full path to the virtual machine s configuration
394. n addressType ethernet n generatedAddressOffset VMware Inc 283 Workstation User s Manual In these options n is the number of the virtual network adapter for example ethernet0 Add the following line to the configuration file ethernet n address 00 50 56 XX YY ZZ In this line the fourth pair of numbers XX must be a valid hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh and YY and ZZ must be valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh You must use the above format because Workstation virtual machines do not support arbitrary MAC addresses Place this line above the UUID lines in the file If you choose a value for XX YY ZZ that is unique among your hard coded addresses conflicts between the automatically assigned MAC addresses and the manually assigned addresses should never occur Controlling Routing Information for a Host Only Network on Linux 284 A host only network is a full fledged network It has a network interface associated with it vmnet1 that is marked up at the time the host operating system is booted Consequently routing server processes that operate on the host operating system such as routed and gated automatically discover it and propagate information on how to reach it unless you explicitly configure them not to do so If either of these programs is being run only to receive routing information the easiest solution is to run it with a q option so that it does not supply routing information b
395. n up to a total of 10 virtual switches on Windows and 255 on Linux You can connect one or more virtual machines to a switch VMware Inc 259 Workstation User s Manual By default a few of the switches and the networks associated with them are used for special named configurations m The bridged network uses vmnet0 as described in Bridged Networking on page 261 m The NAT network uses vmnet8 as described in Network Address Translation NAT on page 262 m The host only network usesvmneti as described in Host Only Networking on page 263 The other available networks are named vmnet2 vmnet3 vmnet4 and so on DHCP Server The DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol server provides IP network addresses to virtual machines in configurations that are not bridged to an external network For example host only and NAT configurations use the DHCP server Network Adapter One virtual network adapter is set up for your virtual machine when you create it with the New Virtual Machine wizard using any type of networking It appears in the guest operating system as an AMD PCNET PCI adapter or as an Intel Pro 1000 MT Server Adapter On Windows Vista guests it is an Intel Pro 1000 MT Server Adapter You can create and configure up to 10 virtual network adapters in each Workstation 6 5 virtual machine by using the virtual machine settings editor The limit is three adapters for Workstation 4 or 5 virtual machines For
396. n ACE instance as it runs on an end user s machine You can see the effects of changed policies without having to package and deploy them Preview mode also enables you to see the effects of setup choices without having to create deploy and install a full package You can run the ACE instance in preview mode in VMware Player and also run the ACE enabled virtual machine in Workstation without having to shut down the preview NOTE You can run any ACE enabled virtual machine directly in Workstation to be sure that the guest operating system and applications perform as expected However an ACE enabled virtual machine running in Workstation does not respect any policies that restrict its functionality Before you begin verify that the settings and deployment platforms you want to test are appropriate for preview mode Because Workstation runs only on Windows hosts you cannot use preview mode to run ACE instances as they run on Linux hosts You also cannot test a host policy in preview mode To test ACE instances that you plan to deploy on Linux hosts or for which you want to test a host policy see Perform an End to End Deployment Test on page 431 To use preview mode to test policy and deployment settings 1 Open the ACE enabled virtual machine to test 2 Inthe summary view click Edit policies in the Commands list 3 In the Policy list select the policy to change complete the settings panel for that policy and click OK 4 In
397. n SVGA driver a mouse driver the VMware Tools control panel and support for such features as shared folders drag and drop shrinking virtual disks time synchronization with the host VMware Tools scripts and connecting and disconnecting devices while the virtual machine is running See also drag and drop shared folder You Are Here icon A special icon appearing in the snapshot manager that indicates the current status of the active virtual machine This can be important when deciding whether to revert to or go to a snapshot See also snapshot manager revert to snapshot Go to Snapshot command VMware Inc Index Numerics 3D support 308 A About tab VMware Tools 126 VMware Workstation 43 access control policies Active Directory password change proxying 381 setting 374 ACE 2 See VMware ACE 2 ACE instance defined 368 device connection policy 392 encryption 423 installing on a Linux host 446 installing on a Windows host 441 offline usage 400 removable device policy 392 running a Pocket ACE 439 setting policies for 374 uninstalling from a Linux host 447 uninstalling from a Windows host 444 ACE Management Server and Active Directory password change proxying 381 defined 368 ACE package See package ACE Resources directory 423 VMware Inc ACE tools using 450 ACE enabled virtual machine configuring 424 creating multiple packages 426 defined 368 deployment 423 ACPI 365 ACPI S1 sleep feature 365 activ
398. n also specify text icon or a combination of the two and specify custom icons If you use custom icons copy the icon files to the ACE Resources directory in the virtual machine directory for the ACE enabled virtual machine Settings you make in the skin file override any settings the user makes in the VMware Player preferences dialog box Use the following parameter to control whether devices are shown as toolbar items player deviceBar toplevel TRUE FALSE Set the parameter to TRUE for a toolbar or FALSE for a menu Use the parameters shown in Table 21 3 to customize the display for each removable device configured in the virtual machine Table 21 3 Removable Devices Parameters Parameter Type Default Controls player deviceBar string text icon text Appearance of toolbar lt deviceName gt buttonStyle texticon button or menu item player deviceBar string User friendly Text that appears on the lt deviceName gt buttonText device name toolbar button or menu item when device is connected VMware Inc 409 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Table 21 3 Continued Removable Devices Parameters Parameter player deviceBar lt deviceName gt buttonTextD isconnected Type string optional Default Normal button text Controls Text that appears on the toolbar button or menu item when device is disconnected player deviceBar lt deviceName gt tooltip string mr Text that appea
399. n on VMI are not supported VMware Inc Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity Unsupported virtual devices Before you enable the record replay feature use the virtual machine settings editor to remove the sound adapter from the virtual machine and disconnect the Floppy device In addition avoid connecting the virtual machine to a network or disconnecting it during a recording session Disk space How much disk space a recording uses depends on the type of activity that occurs on the virtual machine and the duration of the recording session By default a screenshot is created every five seconds Therefore assume that you will need several megabytes of disk space for one minute of recording NOTE If you have a number of high resolution virtual machines open on your screen it will consume more disk space Disk mode You cannot use the record replay feature if the virtual machine s virtual hard disk is set to independent mode This is because recording virtual machine activity requires writing data about the disk to a continual snapshot Use the virtual machine settings editor to change the disk mode choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware gt Hard Disk gt Advanced Enabling Record Replay for a Virtual Machine Make sure that the virtual machine meets the requirements listed in Physical and Virtual Hardware Requirements on page 234 NOTE When you enable the record replay feature
400. n on the Host to a Virtual Machine You can set up the virtual serial port in a virtual machine to connect to an application on the host This setup is useful if you want to use an application on the host to capture debugging information sent from the virtual machine s serial port To connect an application on the host to a virtual machine 1 2 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 319 Workstation User s Manual 320 N A GF A Q 10 11 12 13 Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard Select Serial Port and click Next On the Serial Port Type page select Output to Named Pipe and click Next Depending on whether you are using a Linux host or a Windows host do one of the following m For a Windows host on the Specify Named Pipe page specify the pipe name The pipe name must follow the form pipe lt namedpipe gt That is it must begin with pipe m Fora Linux host in the Path field enter tmp lt socket gt or another UNIX socket name Select This end is the server or This end is the client Select This end is the server if you plan to start this end of the connection first Select The other end is an application Under Device status if you do not want the serial port to connect at power on clear the check box Click Finish to return to the virtual machine settings editor Optional On the H
401. n one monitor set it to use only one monitor 5 In the 3D Graphics section make sure the check box is selected and click OK To enable the guest operating system for accelerated 3 D 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 Install VMware Tools For instructions see Installing VMware Tools on page 105 3 Install DirectX 9 0c End User Runtime This download is available from Microsoft at www microsoft com downloads search aspx displaylang en amp categoryid 2 4 Install and run your 3 D applications Configuring Sound 310 Workstation provides a sound device compatible with the Sound Blaster AudioPCI and supports sound in Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 and Linux guest operating systems The Workstation sound device is enabled by default Sound support includes PCM pulse code modulation output and input For example you can play wav files MP3 audio and Real Media audio MIDI output from Windows guests is supported through the Windows software synthesizer MIDI input is not supported and no MIDI support is available for Linux guests Windows 2000 Windows XP and most recent Linux distributions automatically detect the sound device and install appropriate drivers for it VMware Inc Chapter 17 Configuring Video and Sound For Windows Vista when you install VMware Tools in a 64 bit Windows Vista guest operating system a sound driver is installed For 32 bit W
402. n use the following APIs SDKs and IDEs when writing and debugging applications that run in virtual machines VMware Inc VIX API for writing programs to automate virtual machine operations The API is high level easy to use and practical for both script writers and application programmers API functions allow you to register power on or off virtual machines and run programs in the guest operating systems There are additional language bindings for Perl COM and shell scripts vmrun For more information see the VMware VIX API Release Notes VAssert API for inserting replay only code to debug applications Use virtual assertions as you would regular assertions in the applications you develop The benefit of VAsserts is that they appear only when you replay a recording of using the application and so are overhead free Currently available for Windows guests See the VAssert Programming Guide VProbes tool for investigating guest behavior You can write VProbes scripts that inspect and record activities in the guest VMM VMX and virtual device state without modifying that state For example VProbes can track which applications are running or indicate which processes are causing page faults See the VProbes Reference Guide Visual Studio and Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debuggers With the Workstation IDE integrated development environment plug ins you have a configurable interface between virtual machines and Visual Studi
403. napshot manager is a window that allows you to take actions on any of the snapshots and recordings associated with the selected virtual machine See also record replay feature snapshot suspend Saves the current state of a running virtual machine To return a suspended virtual machine to operation you use the resume feature See also resume T U team A group of virtual machines that are configured to operate as one object You can power on power off and suspend a team with one command You can configure a team to communicate independently of any other virtual or real network by setting up a LAN segment See also LAN segment virtual network template A virtual machine that cannot be deleted or added to a team Setting a virtual machine as a template protects any linked clone or snapshots from being disabled inadvertently See also linked clone parent snapshot undoable mode In VMware ESX Server 2 x a disk mode in which all write operations issued by software running inside the virtual machines appear to be written to the disk but are in fact stored in a temporary file REDO for the duration of the session When the virtual machine is powered off the user has three choices permanently apply all changes to the disk discard the changes thus restoring the disk to its previous state or keep the changes so that further changes from future sessions can be added to the log See also disk mode unity mode A display mode in which a v
404. nd click OK When you close a tab or exit Workstation you no longer receive a prompt Keyboard Shortcuts 82 If you prefer to work from the keyboard use the keyboard shortcuts shown in Table 4 1 If you changed the Preferences setting for the hot key combination substitute your new setting for Ctrl Alt as needed in the shortcuts listed in Table 4 1 Table 4 1 Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcut Action Ctrl B Power on Ctrl E Power off Ctrl R Reset the power VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Table 4 1 Keyboard Shortcuts Continued Shortcut Action Ctrl Z Suspend Ctrl N Create a new virtual machine Ctrl O Open a virtual machine Ctrl F4 Close the summary console view for the selected virtual machine A confirmation dialog appears only if the virtual machine is powered on Ctrl D Edit the virtual machine s configuration F9 Toggle between displaying and hiding the sidebar Ctrl G Grab input from keyboard and mouse Ctrl P Edit preferences Ctrl Alt Enter Toggle between full screen mode and windowed mode Ctrl Alt Release the mouse cursor If the virtual machine is in the type of full screen mode called exclusive mode pressing Ctrl Alt brings the virtual machine out of exclusive mode and into full screen mode Ctrl Alt Tab Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are grabbed Ctrl Tab Switch among open virtual machines w
405. nd dhcpd conf 8 Configure the DHCP Server on a Windows Host On a Windows host use the virtual network editor to configure the DHCP server To configure the DHCP server on a Windows host 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings 2 Click the DHCP tab 3 Select the virtual network for which you want to change settings and click Properties 4 Inthe DHCP Settings dialog box that appears make changes and click OK DHCP Conventions for Assigning IP Addresses For virtual machines that you do not expect to keep for long use DHCP and let it allocate an IP address For each host only or NAT network the available IP addresses are split up using the conventions shown in Table 16 1 and Table 16 2 where lt net gt is the network number assigned to your host only or NAT network Workstation always uses a Class C address for host only and NAT networks VMware Inc 279 Workstation User s Manual Table 16 1 Address Use on a Host Only Network Range Address Use Example lt net gt 1 Host machine 192 168 0 1 lt net gt 2 lt net gt 127 Static addresses 192 168 0 2 192 168 0 127 lt net gt 128 lt net gt 253 DHCP assigned 192 168 0 128 192 168 0 253 lt net gt 254 DHCP server 192 168 0 254 lt net gt 255 Broadcasting 192 168 0 255 Table 16 2 Address Use on a NAT Network Range Address Use Example lt net gt 1 Host machine 192 168 0 1 lt net gt 2 NAT device 192 168
406. nd power off scripts See Include a Power On and Power Off Script in the Package on page 378 Other resource files that authentication power on or power off scripts call Device files such as ISO images or FLP images that the virtual machine is configured to point to The skin file which you can create to customize the VMware Player icons removable device icons and title bar text used in the VMware Player user interface on Windows guests See Create and Specify a Skin File on page 407 Icon files for removable devices or the VMware Player application See Customizing the VMware Player Icons on page 408 and Customizing the Removable Device Display on page 409 Custom EULAs See Custom EULA Settings on page 422 When you use the ACE Resources directory take the following considerations into account VMware Inc 423 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Do not place files in a subdirectory of the ACE Resources directory If scripts or skin files reference other files place those other files in the main ACE Resources directory Make sure the script uses relative paths to reference those resources A resource is considered any file in the ACE Resources directory You can specify whether to verify all files in the ACE Resources directory or just the policy scripts in that directory For more information see Setting Resource Signing Policies on page 383 If you change a policy or package setting
407. ne 2 Perform debugging tasks as you would from the Debug gt Start Debugging Visual Studio menu 3 Optional If you want to kill the processes associated with the debugging session on the guest system and restart debugging choose VMware gt Restart Start a Session Without Debugging in a Virtual Machine You can start an application in any configured virtual machine without debugging When you start an application without debugging the integrated virtual debugger does not execute pre debug or post debug operations share additional directories or start the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest system NOTE You must log in to the guest system manually before you can run the application For additional information see Configuring User Accounts on page 481 To start an application in a virtual machine without debugging 1 Choose VMware gt Start Without Debugging 2 The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger initiates the following a Powers on the virtual machine if necessary b Shares the folder to the executable c Runs the executable d Removes the shared folder when the executable terminates VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger e Starts the application in the virtual machine Attach the Debugger to a Process Running in a Virtual Machine To attach the debugger to a running process 1 VMware Inc Choose VMware gt Attach to Process The Attach to Process page
408. ne or more of the values listed in Table 2 1 43 Workstation User s Manual 44 Table 2 1 Values for the REMOVE Property Value Description Authd VMware authorization service which is used to perform tasks when you are not running Workstation as an Administrator user Network Networking components including the virtual bridge and the host adapters for host only networking and NAT networking Do not remove this component if you want to use NAT or DHCP DHCP Virtual DHCP server NAT Virtual NAT device If you specify more than one value use a comma to separate the values For example REMOVE Authd NAT NOTE If you specify REMOVE Network the installer skips installation of certain networking components including NAT and DHCP There is no need to specify DHCP or NAT separately You can customize the installation further by adding any of the following installation properties to the command by using the format lt property gt lt value gt A value of 1 means true A value of 0 means false If you use the serial number property enter the serial number with hyphens XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX Table 2 2 PROPERTY Values Property Effect of the Property Default DESKTOP_SHORTCUT Installs a shortcut on the desktop 1 DISABLE_AUTORUN Disables CD autorun on the host 1 REMOVE_LICENSE Uninstall only Removes all stored licenses at 0 uninstall SERIALNUMBER Enters the serial number Uninstall Work
409. necting devices 341 VMware Inc keyboard and mouse 335 on a Linux host 339 on a Windows host 338 port specifications 34 supported device types 335 USB device connection 392 USB device policy 393 user groups accessing 20 user interface overview 62 restricted 352 UUID universal unique identifier and clones 201 location 199 options for when you move a virtual machine 200 specifying 201 V VAssert API 173 version information for Workstation 126 version changing virtual machine 57 VGA 165 viewing package history 431 virtual adapter host virtual adapters 275 virtual appliances open virtual machine format OVF 142 virtual disk See also disk adding to virtual machine 219 220 allocating disk space 91 defined 214 499 defragmenting 217 defragmenting before shrinking 218 IDE size 33 legacy 231 mapping drives to 184 VMware Inc Index setting up as IDE or SCSI 215 shrinking 125 218 shrinking in Netware 126 size 33 storing on physical disks 215 using in a new virtual machine 87 Virtual Disk Manager 231 vmak file 100 Virtual Disk Manager 231 virtual hardware CPU issues 147 disk device issues 147 Ethernet adapter issues 147 graphics card issues 147 virtual keyboard 324 virtual machine 79 adding a virtual disk 219 220 adding floppy drive 229 adding or modifying an Ethernet adapter 268 adding physical disk 221 adding to team 251 and SMP 348 cloning from team 257 constituent files 100 creatin
410. nection policy 392 device connection ACE instance 392 device drivers for generic SCSI devices 344 for USB support 339 VMware Tools 104 device removable policy 392 device USB 393 devices adding a generic SCSI device 345 346 connecting and disconnecting 124 166 disconnecting from USB controller 341 processor 32 USB 335 Devices tab in Preferences dialog box 78 VMware Tools 124 DHCP assigning IP addresses on a virtual network 278 changing settings 272 275 configuring on a Linux host 279 configuring on a Windows host 279 DHCPD 285 lease 274 on a virtual network with NAT 293 server 260 274 server on virtual network 263 264 stopping 290 dial up connection 280 directories mounting shared on Linux 182 viewing shared on Solaris guests 182 viewing shared on Windows guests 181 disable acceleration 166 copying and pasting text and files 177 drag and drop of files and folders 176 folder sharing 178 interface features 351 disc labels for packages 430 disk See also virtual disk IDE drive supported in host 27 IDE drives in virtual machine 33 IDE optical drive supported in host 27 independent 192 SCSI drive supported in host 27 SCSI optical drive supported in host 27 size 214 226 space required on host computer 27 vmdk virtual disk file 100 disk space required for packaging 428 display color depth 307 fitting window to virtual machine 163 fullscreen 156 VMware Inc m
411. network address translation NAT configuration also sets up a private network which must be a TCP IP network The virtual machines configured for NAT are connected to that network through a virtual switch The host computer is also connected to the private network used for NAT by a host virtual adapter Each virtual machine and the host must be assigned addresses on the private network This is typically done using the DHCP server that comes with Workstation This server does not service virtual or physical machines residing on bridged networks Addresses can also be assigned statically from a pool of addresses that are not assigned by the DHCP server How the Subnet Number Is Assigned When host only networking is enabled at the time Workstation is installed the subnet IP address for the virtual network is automatically selected as an unused private subnet IP address A NAT configuration also uses an unused private network automatically selected when you install Workstation Find the Network Type Used on a Virtual Machine To find the network type used on a virtual machine Do one of the following m Ona Windows host from the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings The Summary tab displays the subnet number associated with the virtual network m Ona Linux host run ifconfig in a terminal window Determining Whether to Use DHCP or Statically Assign Addresses Using DHCP to assign IP addresses is simple
412. newly created the launch configuration is added to the left pane 470 VMware Inc Appendix B Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger Use Application Configurations to Attach to Applications Running in a Virtual Machine This section describes how to create duplicate or edit a configuration that attaches to a running application in a virtual machine To create duplicate or edit a configuration that attaches to a running application in a virtual machine 1 Choose Run gt Debug The Debug page appears You can create manage and run configurations from this page 2 You can create a launch configuration based on default settings or based on another configuration Do one of the following m Create a configuration based on default settings by selecting VMware attach to application in the left pane and clicking the New launch configuration icon at the top of the pane m Create a configuration based on another configuration by selecting the configuration you want to duplicate under VMware attach to application in the left pane and clicking the Duplicates the currently selected configuration icon at the top of the pane m Edit an existing configuration by selecting the configuration you want to edit under VMware attach to application in the left pane Perform the remaining steps in the VMware tab of the right pane 3 Choose a virtual machine from the drop down menu of recently used and currently running virtual machines
413. ng system in the virtual machine and do one of the following m If you plan to use an installation CD or DVD for installing the guest operating system insert the CD or DVD in the host s CD ROM drive m Ifyou plan to use an ISO image file make sure the file is accessible to the host Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Typical Setup If you are not sure whether to use this procedure see Typical Versus Custom Configurations on page 87 To create a virtual machine by using the typical setup 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose File gt New gt Virtual Machine to start the New Virtual Machine wizard 2 On the Welcome page select Typical and click Next 3 On the Guest Operating System Installation page specify the location of the operating system installation media and click Next VMware Inc VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine If you select Installer disc or Installer disc image file and if the wizard can detect the operating system you might not see a wizard page for selecting the operating system If the Select a Guest Operating System page appears select the operating system including the version to install and click Next If the Easy Install Information page appears specify the following and click Next m Optional The product key If you specify a product key you are not prompted for it later during installation of the operating system Enter a product key even if the instal
414. ng Workstation This chapter contains the following topics Product Benefits on page 24 Overview of This Manual on page 25 About the Host and Guest Computers on page 26 Host System Requirements on page 26 Virtual Machine Specifications on page 32 Supported Guest Operating Systems on page 35 Product Benefits Workstation is a desktop software that allows you to run multiple x86 compatible desktop and server operating systems simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked portable virtual machines with no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required With Workstation you spend less time procuring and configuring and more time testing deploying teaching or running demos Over three million software development quality assurance training sales and IT professionals worldwide find Workstation an indispensable tool To streamline software development and testing m Develop and test multiple operating systems and applications on a single PC m Connect virtual machines to simulate and test multitier configurations VMware Inc 24 Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements m Use multiple snapshots and debugging support to facilitate testing m Archive test environments on file servers where they can be easily restored or shared To enhance productivity of IT professionals m Configure and test desktops and servers as virtual machines before deploying them to production m
415. ng it on a physical computer Only a couple of additional steps are required To install new software in a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Choose VM gt Removable Devices and verify that the virtual machine has access to the CD ROM drive ISO image file or floppy drive where the installation software is located For more information see Add DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine on page 227 3 Choose VM gt Settings and use the Memory settings panel on the Hardware tab to set the final memory size for the virtual machine Some applications use a product activation feature that creates a key based on the virtual hardware in the virtual machine where it is installed Changes in the configuration of the virtual machine might require you to reactivate the software To minimize the number of significant changes set the memory size 4 Install VMware Tools in the guest operating system VMware Inc 165 Workstation User s Manual See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 Installing VMware Tools before installing the new application also minimizes the likelihood of requiring you to reactivate the software 5 Install the new application according to the manufacturer s instructions Disable Acceleration If a Program Does Not Run Occasionally when you install or run software inside a virtual machine Workstation appears to hang In many cases you can get past the problem by temporarily disabling accelerat
416. nistrator s Manual 414 3 Complete the settings panel for that deployment setting and click OK or select another setting to edit For assistance with the fields on a settings panel click Help Encryption Settings Encryption settings are of two types m Package encryption Protects package files from being copied or altered while in transit If you set package protection to Encrypted the New Package wizard encrypts the virtual machine when a package is created m ACE instance encryption Protects ACE instance files from being copied or altered after installation and activation You must specify an authentication method if you want the installer to encrypt the ACE instance The Workstation software uses defaults that the activation and authentication policies determine to apply encryption settings to the package and files See Setting Access Control Policies on page 374 The default encryption settings for deployment in production environments The files do not need to be encrypted when you test deploy a package NOTE If you set the encryption settings to None any verification specified in the resource signing policy is not performed The encryption package setting overrides the resource signing policy setting See Setting Resource Signing Policies on page 383 Package Lifetime Settings You can specify a time period during which an ACE package is installable If a user attempts to install a package outside o
417. nnot be accessed from the new virtual machine Workstation generates a different MAC address for the virtual Ethernet adapter when you move a virtual machine to a new host computer or to a different directory on the same host computer A new MAC address is also generated when you rename a directory in the path to the virtual machine s configuration file See Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine on page 282 VMware Inc Chapter 11 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines Moving an Older Virtual Machine If you created a virtual machine by using Workstation 2 x or 3 x you must upgrade it to at least version 4 Workstation 6 does not support Workstation 2 or 3 virtual machines Moving Linked Clones You can move a linked clone as you do an ordinary Workstation virtual machine However if you move a linked clone or if you move its parent virtual machine make sure the clone can access the parent virtual machine Place the parent in shared directory or on a networked file server For example if you put a linked clone on a laptop and the parent remains on another machine you can use the clone only when the laptop connects to the network or drive where the parent is stored To use a cloned virtual machine on a disconnected laptop you must use a full clone or you must move the parent virtual machine to the laptop You cannot power on a linked clone if Workstation cannot locate the original virtual m
418. nother computer See Snapshot Conflicts on page 191 If your use of virtual machines is strongly performance oriented the guest operating system s drives are defragmented See Defragment Virtual Disks on page 217 If the virtual machine has multiple disks in different disk modes the virtual machine is powered off For example if a special purpose configuration requires you to use an independent disk you must power off the virtual machine before taking a snapshot If the virtual machine was created with Workstation 4 delete any existing snapshots or upgrade the virtual machine to Workstation 5 or higher See Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 To take a snapshot 1 2 3 VMware Inc Choose VM gt Snapshot gt Take Snapshot Enter a unique name Optional Enter a description Use this field to record notes about the virtual machine state captured in the snapshot 195 Workstation User s Manual 196 4 Click OK Rename a Snapshot or Recording Use the snapshot manager to change the name of a snapshot or its description at any time To rename a snapshot or recording 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Snapshot gt Snapshot Manager 2 Select the snapshot or recording 3 Edit the text in the Name text box and click Close If you rename a snapshot for a cloned virtual machine use the Description field to specify which virtual machine was cloned Restore an Earl
419. nt on page 254 NICs configured with connections through a DHCP server cannot connect to a team LAN segment m To remove an adapter select the adapter you want to remove and click Remove Adapter 4 Click OK Delete a LAN Segment Deleting a LAN segment disconnects all virtual Ethernet adapters that are configured for that LAN segment When you remove a virtual machine from a team you must 256 VMware Inc Chapter 14 Configuring Teams manually configure its disconnected virtual Ethernet adapter if you want to reconnect the virtual machine to a network To delete a LAN segment 1 Select the team either from the Favorites list or by clicking the summary tab for the team 2 From the Workstation menu bar choose Team gt Settings and click the LAN Segments tab 3 Select the LAN segment you want to delete 4 Click Remove and click OK Cloning and Taking Snapshots of Team Virtual Machines You can clone a virtual machine in a team in the same way you clone any other virtual machine See Creating Clones on page 203 When you clone a virtual machine in a team m The resulting clone is not part of the team m The clone appears on the Favorites list as well as in a summary window m Ifthe parent virtual machine is configured for a LAN segment the virtual Ethernet adapter for that LAN segment on the clone is disconnected To connect to a network you must reconfigure the virtual Ethernet adapter manually Snapshots
420. nteract with the virtual machine VMware Tools finishes wiping the selected disk partitions a prompt to shrink disks appears 4 Click Yes Shrinking disks can take considerable time 5 Click OK Adding Virtual and Physical Disks to a Virtual Machine This section provides instructions for creating virtual disks removing disks adding existing disks to virtual machines and using physical disks in a virtual machine You can connect other SCSI devices to a virtual machine by using the generic SCSI driver for the host operating system See Add a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine on page 345 Create a Virtual Disk and Add It to a Virtual Machine Virtual disks are stored as files on the host computer or on a network file server A virtual IDE drive or a virtual SCSI drive can be stored on an IDE drive or on a SCSI drive NOTE If you have a Windows NT 4 0 guest with a SCSI virtual disk you cannot add both an additional SCSI disk and an IDE disk to the configuration To add a new virtual disk to a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 2 Choose VM gt Settings 3 On the Hardware tab click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard VMware Inc 219 Workstation User s Manual 220 10 11 On the Hardware Type page select Hard Disk and click Next On the Select a Disk page select Create a new virtual disk and click Next On the Select a Disk Type page choos
421. o Windows only or Eclipse Windows or Linux that lets you easily test run and debug programs in virtual machines See Appendix B Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger on page 463 and Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger on page 475 173 Workstation User s Manual 174 VMware Inc Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest This chapter discusses how to transfer files between the host and guest This chapter includes the following topics Using Drag and Drop on page 175 Using Copy and Paste on page 176 Using Shared Folders on page 177 Using a Mapped Drive for Windows Only on page 184 Using Drag and Drop To use the drag and drop feature VMware Tools must be installed on the virtual machine This feature requires Linux hosts and guests to run X Windows and Solaris 10 guests to run an Xorg X server and JDS Gnome With this feature you can move files and directories easily between Linux and Windows hosts and Linux Windows and Solaris 10 guests However the drag and drop feature does not work on Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests You can drag and drop files or folders from the following locations VMware Inc A file manager such as Windows Explorer on the host to a file manager in the virtual machine and the reverse A file manager to an application that supports drag and drop Applications such as zip file managers that support drag
422. o create a cache on the host VMware Inc 397 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual If you disable caching the exit behavior in the When closing a Pocket ACE instance list changes to Always go but synchronization does not occur because it is not necessary Setting Snapshot Policies You can set policy options for two types of snapshots Reimage snapshots At installation time a snapshot is taken after all of the required instance setup steps are complete including if applicable encryption instance customization and domain join The snapshot is taken before the virtual machine runs for the first time NOTE Manually disable the automatic reimage snapshot by editing the ACE enabled virtual machine s aceMaster dat file Edit the packaging takeReimageSnapshot option Reimage snapshots allow the ACE administrator or the user if the administrator enables reimage snapshot options for the user to revert the ACE instance to its known good starting state or to the known good updated reimage state If you enable reimage snapshot options commands for the options appear in the VMware Player gt Troubleshoot menu If you choose not to enable the reimage snapshot options for the user you can replace the reimage snapshot or revert to it on the user s machine by providing administrator mode access through the Administrator Mode policy See Setting Administrator Mode Policies on page 399 User snapshots You can enable
423. o ensure that users virtual machines always start in the same state Typically users running a virtual machine with a restricted user interface can only power it on and off and the virtual machine boots when powered on When the virtual machine has a snapshot set and is configured to return to that snapshot when powered off the user can only start and power off the virtual machine The virtual machine always starts from the snapshot To set up a virtual machine with a restricted user interface for Windows only 1 Power on the virtual machine and be sure it is in the appropriate state 2 Create a snapshot VMware Inc 353 Workstation User s Manual 354 See Take a Snapshot on page 195 Configure the virtual machine to return to the snapshot any time it is powered off Choose VM gt Settings gt Options gt Snapshot Replay and select After Powering Off and Revert to Snapshot With the virtual machine powered off restrict the user interface as follows a Close the VMware Workstation window b Open the virtual machine s configuration file vmx file in a text editor c Add the following line anywhere in the file gui restricted TRUE Optional Set file permissions on the configuration file to give normal users of the system read only access to the file This prevents normal users from manually modifying the configuration Create a shortcut to the configuration file on the desktop and name it Run this virtual mach
424. o include modifier keys The modifier keys are Ctrl Alt Shift and Windows keys The Windows key is the key between the Ctrl and Alt keys You can also use a combination of those keys Table 19 1 lists the key codes for the modifier keys Table 19 1 Modifier Keys for Hot Key Entries Modifier Key Value No modifier 0x0 Alt 0x1 Ctrl 0x2 Shift 0x4 Win Windows 0x8 Ctrl Alt 0x3 Alt Shift 0x5 Ctrl Shift 0x6 Ctrl Alt Shift Ox7 Win Alt 0x9 Win Ctrl Oxa Win Ctrl Alt Oxb Win Shift Oxc Win Shift Alt Oxd Win Shift Ctrl Oxe Win Shift Ctrl Alt Oxf Keep the following limitations in mind when defining cycle keys and switch keys m Do not use the Pause key with the Ctrl key You can use the Pause key with other modifier keys m Ifyou use the F12 key you must use one or more modifier keys You cannot use the F12 key alone m You cannot use combinations that include only the Shift Ctrl and Alt keys These keys can be used only as modifiers in combination with some other key VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts When listing a key plus a modifier type the virtual key code for the key followed by a comma and type the value for the modifier key or keys For example the value entry for Ctrl Shift F1 is 0x70 0x6 Hot Key for Cycling Through Virtual Machines and the Host Computer You can specify a hot key or hot key combination for cyclin
425. of VMware Tools is incomplete You can usually solve the problem by uninstalling VMware Tools and then reinstalling To uninstall VMware Tools Depending on the guest operating system do one of the following m Ona Windows guest use the guest operating system s Add Remove Programs item to remove VMware Tools m Onany UNIX guest log on as root su and enter the appropriate command vmware uninstall tools pl m Ona Linux guest that has VMware Tools installed by using an RPM installer you can uninstall by using the following command rpm e VMwareTools Repair or Change Installed Modules If features like enhanced file sharing do not work after a VMware Tools update you might need to change or repair installed modules Be sure to follow these steps Do not the guest s Add Remove Programs item in the Windows Control Panel 120 VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools To repair or change installed modules 1 5 In Workstation select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Install VMware Tools Because the latest version of VMware Tools is installed a Change wizard appears Click Change to repair or modify which components of VMware Tools are installed Click Modify to specify which modules are installed Occasionally some new modules are not installed during an update You can manually install new modules by using the Modify option Do one of the following m If the new modules you want
426. og By default the vmware fullscreen log file is in the temp directory for the user logged on to the host computer This location might be specified in the TEMP environment variable The default location is C Documents and Settings lt username gt Local Settings Temp The administrator can specify a different location for this log file by adding the following line to the Workstation global configuration file config ini fullScreenSwitch log filename lt path gt VMware recommends using a full path If you use a relative path the location is relative to the directory that is active when the vmware fullscreen command is issued for the first time after the host computer reboots VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts Guest ACPI S1 Sleep Workstation provides experimental support for guest operating system ACPI S1 sleep Not all guest operating systems support this feature Common guest operating system interfaces for entering standby are supported By default ACPI S1 sleep is implemented in Workstation as suspend You can use the Workstation Resume button to wake the guest With the following entry in the configuration vmx file for a virtual machine ACPI S1 sleep is instead implemented as power on suspend chipset onlineStandby TRUE The guest operating system is not fully powered down You can awaken the virtual machine in the following ways m Keyboard input m Mou
427. ogress 430 deployment for Pocket ACE 437 VMware Inc deployment platform for 423 disc labels 430 disk space required 428 distribution format selecting 430 encryption 423 format of files 430 history 431 Pocket ACE installation 437 pre deployment test 431 previewing before deployment 431 registration 430 testing before deployment 431 package lifetime package setting 414 package properties dialog box 431 package settings custom EULA 422 deployment platform 423 encryption 414 instance customization overview 415 package lifetime 414 placeholder values in instance customization 419 remote domain join 420 workgroup or domain in instance customization 417 packaging burning files onto discs 430 creation progress 430 disk space required 428 select distribution format 430 with instance customization enabled 430 packet filtering 281 leaks 280 packet loss configuring for LAN segments 255 parallel ports VMware Inc Index and lomega zip drives 314 and the Linux kernel 315 configuring on a Linux host 314 in a virtual machine 313 installing in virtual machines 313 paravirtualized kernels in Linux guests 98 parent snapshot 190 passwords and administrative lockout 351 removing forgotten password 352 performance debugging mode 242 physical disk adding physical disks 221 capacity 216 defined 496 storing virtual disks on 215 using in a virtual machine ping 294 pipe named 319 placeh
428. older values in instance customization package settings 419 platform deployment setting 423 Player policy 395 plug ins writing 402 png files for screen captures 171 Pocket ACE correct time necessary on host computers 439 description 91 435 Disk Size Calculator 91 installing on portable device 437 portable device requirements 435 running 439 policies access control 374 511 Workstation User s Manual 512 activation 374 administrative tools 399 authentication 374 copy protection 383 device connection 392 expiration 382 host 384 441 host guest data script 382 hot fix 400 network access 384 Player runtime 395 removable device 392 resource signing 383 runtime preferences 395 setting for an ACE instance 374 snapshot 398 update frequency 400 USB device 393 using scripts 402 policy editor using 374 policy update frequency 400 port TCP and UDP below 1024 297 VNC 167 port forwarding 300 304 305 Power menu disable functions 352 using forteams 254 power off snapshot options 197 team 253 Power Off button 152 power on a virtual machine 150 team 253 Powered On list 74 power on script 378 preferences display 163 hot keys 325 setting for Workstation 76 workspace 77 Preview in Player icon 425 preview mode test 425 viewing ACE instances before deployment 431 previewing packages 431 processor host requirement 26 provided in virtual machine 32 supported for 64 bit guest 26 38 promiscuous mode
429. ols and other software in the virtual machine The procedures are the same as for any virtual machine See the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide Set policies for the ACE instance Policies control such things as what network access end users have from ACE instances and what devices on their host computers they may use in the instances See Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player on page 373 Specify deployment settings for the ACE instance VMware Inc 10 Chapter 20 Learning the Basics of ACE Deployment settings control such things as encryption expiration date and security IDs See Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances on page 413 Create packages to deploy to end users Workstation guides you through the process See Creating a Package on page 426 or Chapter 23 Pocket ACE on page 435 Distribute packages to end users Distribute the packages on CD DVD or portable media or make them available on a network See Deploy Packages on page 433 or Deploying the ACE Package on a Portable Device on page 437 Install ACE instances on end users machines See Installing ACE Instances on page 441 or Run the Pocket ACE Instance on page 439 You can install multiple ACE instances on the same machine They can be from different vendors and be governed by different policies You can also uninstall individual ACE instances or Worksta
430. om the GUI on Windows choose VMware Player from the Start gt Programs gt VMware menu VMware Inc Chapter 11 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines In a Linux X session choose VMware Player from the corresponding program menu such as the System Tools menu m From the command line open a command prompt and enter one of the following commands m On Windows enter lt path gt vmplayer exe where lt path gt is the path on your system to the application file m On Linux enter vmplayer amp From the Welcome page you can m Browse to a virtual machine file m Open a recently used virtual machine m Download a virtual appliance from the VMTN VMware Technology Network Web site 2 Open a virtual machine For instructions on using and configuring VMware Player see the online help provided in VMware Player From the VMware Player menu bar choose VMware Player gt Help 3 To exit VMware Player do one of the following m Shut down the guest operating system in the virtual machine VMware Player closes after the guest operating system shuts down m In VMware Player choose VMware Player gt Exit Windows or Player gt Quit Linux VMware Player either suspends or powers off the virtual machine depending on the preference you set for exit behavior in Player gt Preferences Setting Up Virtual Machines for Use with VMware Player When you create a virtual machine that you intend to distribute to other use
431. oming packets m Destination address for outgoing packets protocol and ports The packet is compared to each rule in order until it matches a rule or it was compared with all of the rules When a match is made the packet to rule comparison ends The VMware Inc 389 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 390 packet is not compared to subsequent rules in the ordered list If it was compared to all rules without a match the default rule action is applied To add and edit rulesets and rules for network access 1 2 In the policy editor select Network Access In the Network Access settings panel click the link in the table column that applies to the access setting to edit The Zone and Access Type information just below the Ruleset Name text box shows the name of the zone and whether the access setting applies to host network access or to the network access for ACE instances guest Use the ruleset editor to change the order of rules in the set edit rules and specify whether the host or guest is allowed to use DNS DHCP or ICMP By default DNS DHCP and ICMP are included in the network access setup for both host and instance access VMware recommends that you keep DHCP and DNS selected because they are important for zone detection Whether the following settings apply to the host or to the ACE instance guest depends on whether you are editing a host network access ruleset or a guest network access ruleset m DNS Allows t
432. omization for advanced users You are not prompted to specify the virtual machine version The virtual machine version Workstation 4 5 6 or 6 5 is assumed to be the one specified in the preferences editor From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Preferences and see the setting for Default hardware compatibility On the last page of the wizard you can click Customize Hardware to change the defaults for memory allocation number of virtual CPUs network connection type and so on Many circumstances require you to select a custom installation Select Custom if you want to do any of the following m Make a different version of virtual machine than what is specified in the preferences editor m Specify the I O adapter type for SCSI adapters BusLogic or LSI Logic m Specify whether you want to create an IDE or a SCSI virtual disk regardless of the default that is usually used for the guest operating system To determine the type of virtual disk that is displayed by default for a particular operating system select the Custom option and click Next through the wizard pages select the guest operating system and continue through the wizard until you get to the Select a Disk Type page The default is already selected m Use a physical disk rather than a virtual disk for expert users m Use an existing virtual disk rather than create a new virtual disk m Place the virtual disk file in a location other than the virtual machin
433. on The following examples show the default locations suggested for virtual machines m On Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 the default folder for a Windows XP Professional virtual machine is C Documents and Settings lt username gt My Documents My Virtual Machines Windows XP Professional m On Windows Vista the default folder is C Users lt username gt Documents Virtual Machines Windows XP Professional m On Linux hosts the default location for a Windows XP Professional virtual machine is lt homedir gt vmware Windows XP Professional where lt homedir gt is the home directory of the user who is currently logged on VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine Virtual machine performance might be slower if your virtual hard disk is on a network drive For best performance be sure the virtual machine s folder is on a local drive However if other users need to access this virtual machine consider placing the virtual machine files in a location that is accessible to them See Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users on page 209 For information about the files stored in the virtual machine folder see Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine on page 100 Number of Processors This option is available for custom configurations only Setting the virtual machine to have two processors is supported only for host machines with at least two logical processors If you are creating a Workstati
434. on 4 virtual machine you do not see this panel The following are all considered to have two logical processors m Asingle processor host with hyperthreading enabled m Asingle processor host with a dual core CPU A multiprocessor host with two CPUs regardless of whether they are dual core or have hyperthreading enabled Network Connection Type This option is available for custom configurations or if you click Customize Hardware on the last page of the New Virtual Machine wizard You have several options for connecting the virtual machine to the network m Bridged networking If your host computer is on a network and you have a separate IP address for your virtual machine or can get one automatically from a DHCP server select Use bridged networking Other computers on the network can then communicate directly with the virtual machine m NAT If you do not have a separate IP address for your virtual machine but you want to be able to connect to the Internet select Use network address translation NAT The virtual machine and the host share a single network identity that is not visible outside the network m Host only Host only networking provides a network connection between the virtual machine and the host computer using a virtual Ethernet adapter that is visible to the host operating system With host only networking the virtual machine can communicate only with the host and other virtual machines in the VMware Inc 8
435. on for that specific virtual machine See Virtual Machine Location on page 88 The key files are listed in Table 5 1 by extension In these examples lt vmname gt is the name of your virtual machine Table 5 1 Virtual Machine Files Extension File Name Description log lt vmname gt log The log file of key Workstation activity This file is or useful in troubleshooting This file is stored in the vmware log directory that holds the configuration vmx file of the virtual machine nvram lt vmname gt nvram The NVRAM file which stores the state of the virtual or machine s BIOS nvram 100 VMware Inc Table 5 1 Virtual Machine Files Continued Extension File Name vmdk lt vmname gt vmdk Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine Description VMDK files which store the contents of the virtual machine s hard disk drive A virtual disk is made up of one or more virtual disk vmdk files The virtual machine settings editor shows the name of the first file in the set This file contains pointers to the other files in the set If you specify that all space should be allocated when you create the disk these files start at the maximum size and do not grow Almost all of a vmdk file s content is the virtual machine s data with a small portion allotted to virtual machine overhead If the virtual machine is connected directly to a physical disk the vmdk file stores information about the partition
436. on page 227 Make sure the virtual CD ROM drive is configured to auto detect a physical drive This task is necessary if you connected the virtual machine s CD drive to an ISO image file when you installed the operating system Change the connection from the ISO image to auto detect a physical drive With the virtual machine powered off choose VM gt Settings gt CD ROM gt Use Physical Drive Auto detect When you install VMware Tools make sure the virtual machine is powered on If the guest operating system is a Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista operating system log in as an administrator Any user can install VMware Tools in a Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows Me guest operating system VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools To install VMware Tools 1 4 On the host from the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Install VMware Tools Depending on whether autorun is enabled one of the following occurs inside the guest operating system m If autorun is enabled in the guest operating system a dialog box appears after a few seconds It asks whether you want to install VMware Tools m If autorun is not enabled the dialog box does not appear automatically Click Start gt Run and enter D setup setup exe where D is your first virtual CD ROM drive Click Yes to launch the InstallShield wizard Follow the on screen instructions On some Windows opera
437. onal Wks 6 E Restore Mave Size Minimize fl Maximize Exclusive Mode e Autofit Guest Stretch Guest Center Guest X Close 159 Workstation User s Manual 6 m On Linux hosts click the View menu on the full screen toolbar and choose Exclusive Mode Rea Hat Enterprise Linux 4 2 VM View m A Exclusive Mode Autofit Guest Stretch Guest Center Guest To exit full screen mode and return to windowed mode press Ctrl Alt Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual Machine If your host has a multiple monitor display you can configure a virtual machine to use two or more monitors On Windows guests you do not need to use the Windows display properties settings to configure multiple monitors Before you begin make sure the virtual machine meets these requirements 160 The virtual machine is a Workstation 6 or higher virtual machine VMware Tools is installed and running in the virtual machine s guest operating system The version of VMware Tools must be the version included in Workstation 6 or higher For instructions see Installing VMware Tools on page 105 The guest operating system in the virtual machine is Windows XP Windows Vista or Linux On the host the display settings for monitors must be set in a compatible topology For example the left most monitor cannot be below any other monitor It does not matter if the monitors have different resolutions
438. oose VM gt Capture Screen Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Alt PrtScr on Windows hosts or Shift Ctrl PrtScr on Linux hosts The keyboard shortcut works regardless of whether mouse and keyboard input is currently grabbed by the virtual machine or the host The Windows keyboard shortcut Ctrl Alt PrtScr assumes that your virtual machine is configured to ungrab keyboard and mouse input if you press Ctrl Alt If you configured a different shortcut for ungrabbing input use that shortcut in combination with the PrtScr key Create and Play Back a Movie of a Virtual Machine You can capture a movie of your screen activity within a virtual machine VMware Inc 171 Workstation User s Manual 172 Before you begin make sure you have the VMware movie decoder Although you can capture a movie on Linux you need to play it back on a Windows machine The VMware CODEC coder decoder is automatically installed with Workstation on Windows hosts A separately downloadable installer is also available for playback of movies on Windows machines without Workstation Go to the Downloads page on the VMware Web site and click the Tools amp Drivers tab on the VMware Workstation download page NOTE If instead of creating a movie you want to actually record the activity of the virtual machine see Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity on page 233 You might want to record a virtual machine for debugging purposes or to
439. oot user You can also look at the proc modules file for the list With 2 6 x loading parport_pc does not load all modules If none of the listed parallel port modules is loaded use this command modprobe parport_pc amp amp modprobe ppdev This command inserts the modules needed for a parallel port If you continue to see problems it is possible that the Lp module is loaded If it is the virtual machine cannot use the parallel port correctly If the Lp module is loaded run this command as the root user to remove it rmmod Lp Verify that the line referring to the 1p module in the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file is removed or commented out by inserting a hash character at the beginning of the line The name of the configuration file depends on the Linux distribution you are using When you reboot the host after removing this line the configuration file no longer starts the 1p module To ensure that the proper modules for the parallel port are loaded at boot time add this line to the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc 317 Workstation User s Manual Configure Device Permissions for Parallel Ports Some Linux distributions by default do not grant the virtual machine access to the Lp and parport devices You must add the VMware user to the group that has permission to access these devices To configure device permissions for parallel ports 1 Run the fol
440. operating system on page 495 headless Describes a program that runs in the background without any interface connected to it A running virtual machine that has no console connections is running headless VMware Inc Glossary host only networking A type of network connection between a virtual machine and the host Under host only networking a virtual machine is connected to the host on a private network which normally is not visible outside the host Multiple virtual machines configured with host only networking on the same host are on the same network See also bridged networking custom networking network address translation NAT host machine The physical computer on which the VMware Workstation software is installed It hosts the VMware Workstation virtual machines host operating system An operating system that runs on the host machine See also guest operating system independent disk A type of virtual disk that is not affected by snapshots You can configure independent disks in persistent and nonpersistent modes See also nonpersistent mode persistent mode snapshot L M LAN segment A private virtual network that is available only to virtual machines within the same team See also virtual network team linked clone A copy of the original virtual machine that shares the virtual disks with the original virtual machine in an ongoing manner See also full clone lockout See administrative lockout N O networ
441. opy all the files in the virtual machine directory to the new location To move the virtual machine s files to another host if you don t have a network connection to the new host use a shared network directory burn the files onto a DVD or use some other storage media that has enough disk space For more information about the files that you are moving see Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine on page 100 Start Workstation choose File gt Open and browse to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file in its new location For information about moving an ESX Server virtual machine with more than two processors see Use a Virtual Machine That Originally Had More Than Two Virtual Processors on page 348 Optional If you are moving the virtual machine to a different location on the same host remove the virtual machine from the Favorites list and add it again using the new location When you are certain that the virtual machine in the new location works correctly delete the virtual machine files from the old location if desired If the virtual machine in the new location is not working correctly examine the virtual machine in the original location to determine if you missed copying some files Some files might reside outside of the virtual machine directory Use the virtual machine settings editor VM gt Settings gt Hardware to select devices and determine whether any associated files point to locations that ca
442. or The virtual machine no longer appears in a window See Use Full Screen Mode on page 156 NOTE Workstation menus and toolbars are not visible in full screen mode Move your cursor to the top of the screen to show the full screen toolbar Press Ctrl Alt Enter to restore the Workstation window Summary View Displays the summary view See Summary View on page 64 Appliance View Displays the appliance view See Appliance View on page 66 Console View Displays the console view See Console View on page 66 Replay toolbar Replay Last Recording Plays the last recording made for this virtual machine Record Begins recording the activity of this virtual machine 69 Workstation User s Manual 70 For information about the experimental record replay feature see Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity on page 233 m ACE toolbar available on Windows hosts only m Edit Policies Opens the policy editor Edit Deployment Settings Opens the deployment settings editor m Create New Package Opens the New Package wizard m Create Pocket ACE Package Opens the Pocket ACE Package wizard m Preview in Player Allows you to run an ACE instance as it will run on the user s machine Using preview mode also allows you to view the effects of changed policies as they will appear on the user s machine See Chapter 20 Learning the Basics of ACE
443. or physical disk in independent nonpersistent mode is not modified by activity in the virtual machine See also disk mode persistent mode parent The source or original virtual machine from which you take a snapshot or make a clone A full clone has no continued link to its parent but a linked clone and a snapshot each depend on the parent in an ongoing manner If you delete the parent virtual machine any linked clone or snapshot becomes permanently disabled To prevent deletion you can create a template virtual machine See also full clone linked clone snapshot template persistent mode A disk mode in which all disk writes issued by software running inside a virtual machine are immediately and permanently written to a virtual disk that has been configured as an independent disk As a result a virtual disk or physical disk in independent persistent mode behaves like a conventional disk drive on a physical computer See also disk mode nonpersistent mode physical disk A hard disk in a virtual machine that is mapped to a physical disk drive or a partition of a drive on the host machine A physical disk is also referred to as a raw disk A virtual machine s disk can be stored as a file on the host file system or on a local hard disk When a virtual machine is configured to use a physical disk VMware Workstation directly accesses the local disk or partition as a physical device not as a file on a file system It is possible to
444. or updates immediately choose Help gt Check for Updates on the Web 2 To configure Workstation to periodically check for updates choose Edit gt Preferences gt Workspace 3 Inthe Software Updates section select the check box called Check for software updates and click OK VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Quickly Create a Virtual Machine The instructions in this section get you started quickly with creating a virtual machine and installing a guest operating system After you create a virtual machine you will find the information in the rest of this chapter easier to understand The instructions tell you to accept the default settings so that you can complete the New Virtual Machine wizard quickly Completing the procedure is like completing a tutorial Later when you want to create virtual machines that you actually use in your work or production environment you can gain a deeper understanding of all the options available This detailed information is provided in Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine on page 85 For simplicity use a Windows installation CD or ISO image file for the operating system you install in the virtual machine Most Windows operating systems fit on one CD ROM whereas Linux requires multiple CDs To quickly create a virtual machine 1 If you plan to use an installation CD or DVD for the Windows operating system rather than an ISO image file insert the CD or DVD in the host C
445. or you can specify the alias if you used name when you started the virtual machine To switch among virtual machines and the host m Use one of the following commands to switch to the specified virtual machine m vmware fullscreen switchto lt config file gt m vmware fullscreen switchto lt alias gt m vmware fullscreen switchto host m vmware fullscreen switchto next VMware Inc 363 Workstation User s Manual 364 Check the Status of VMware Workstation To check the status of VMware Workstation m Use the following command to determine if Workstation is running in full screen switch mode vmware fullIlscreen query If Workstation is in full screen switch mode the response to this command also reports its process ID and window handle List All the Virtual Machines Currently Powered On To list all the virtual machines currently powered on m Use the following command to list all virtual machines that are currently powered on vmware fullscreen Listvms The list is added to the vmware fullscreen log file vmware fullscreen Log File The vmware fullscreen program writes to a log file This log file records errors reported by vmware fullscreen itself as it starts stops and passes other commands to Workstation It is separate from the vmware Log file which stores information on the running virtual machines The name of the vmware fullscreen log file is vmware lt username gt lt pid gt l
446. ork automatically use the NAT device as the DNS server However the virtual machines can be statically configured to use another DNS server The virtual machines in the private NAT network are not themselves accessible through DNS If you want the virtual machines running on the NAT network to access each other by DNS names you must set up a private DNS server connected to the NAT network External Access from the NAT Network In general any protocol using TCP or UDP can be used automatically by a virtual machine on the NAT network as long as the virtual machine initiates the network connection This is true for most client applications such as Web browsing Telnet passive mode FTP and downloading streaming video Additional protocol support has been built into the NAT device to allow FIP and ICMP echo ping to work transparently through the NAT On the external network to which the host is connected any virtual machine on the NAT network appears to be the host itself because its network traffic uses the host s IP address It is able to send and receive data using TCP IP to any machine that is accessible from the host Before any communication can occur the NAT device must set up a mapping between the virtual machine s address on the private NAT network and the host s network address on the external network When a virtual machine initiates a network connection with another network resource this mapping is created automatically T
447. ork if they depend on specific characteristics of the underlying hardware such as the serial number or the device manufacturer When troubleshooting after virtual machine migration consider the following potential hardware changes The CPU model and serial numbers if activated can be different after the migration They correspond to the physical computer hosting the VMware virtual machine The Ethernet adapter can be different AMD PCNet or VMXnet with a different MAC address Each interface s IP address must be individually reconfigured The graphics card can be different VMware SVGA card The numbers of disks and partitions are the same but each disk device can have a different model and different manufacturer strings The primary disk controllers can be different from the source machine s controllers Applications might not work if they depend on devices that are not available from within a virtual machine Open a Third Party Virtual Machine or System Image The File gt Open command lets you convert a system image or virtual machine created with software from another company into a VMware virtual machine To convert a virtual machine or system image using the Open command 1 2 VMware Inc From the Workstation menu bar choose File gt Open In the File name field browse to and open the configuration vmx vmc spf or sv2i file for the virtual machine or system image to convert You can use the
448. ose the configuration for the application to start debugging m Inthe Debug page select the configuration under VMware execute Java application in the left pane and click Debug in the right pane 2 Perform debugging tasks as you would in a local debugging environment 472 VMware Inc Appendix B Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger Start an Application in a Virtual Machine Without Debugging You can start an application without debugging in any configured virtual machine Begin the session in one of the following ways m From the Run menu choose the configuration for the application to start m Inthe Run page select the configuration under VMware execute Java application in the left pane and click Run in the right pane Attach the Debugger to an Application Running in a Virtual Machine Do not suspend a virtual machine while the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger is connected to an application If you do the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger will disconnect from the application To attach to an application that is running in a virtual machine 1 Inthe Debug page select the configuration under VMware attach to application in the left pane and click Debug in the right pane 2 Select the process you want to attach to If more than one instance of the Java application is running in the virtual machine a dialog box appears with a list of the running instances each identified by their process ID port number and a
449. ost machine You can perform typical debugging tasks such as pausing at breakpoints stepping through code and viewing and modifying the state of your application all without impacting the host environment The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger also enables you to m Manage launch configuration settings for application execution and debugging in virtual machines m Start an application debugging session in a virtual machine m Start an application in a virtual machine without debugging m Start a debugging session that attaches to a process already running in a virtual machine Using Eclipse launch configurations you can choose a virtual machine in which to run your application and how it is execute When configured the Eclipse Integrated Virtual VMware Inc 463 Workstation User s Manual Debugger finds the virtual machine powers it on if necessary sets up the environment based on your configuration settings and starts or attaches to the application To configure how an application is started in a virtual machine you can specify m Name of the virtual machine vmx configuration file m Account credential for guest console m Optional Path to the Java Virtual Machine JVM on the guest system m Optional Locations of folders to be shared between the host and the guest m Optional Actions to perform before launching an application from Eclipse including m Revert to the most recent snapshot m Run specified
450. ost policy and later edit the ACE enabled virtual machine s network access policy to include a host policy and publish the change instances created from packages of that ACE enabled virtual machine do not have a host policy applied A warning appears on the network access policy page if you attempt to apply a host policy in this way You can package just the host policy in a custom package keeping the package size small Setting Removable Devices Policies 392 Removable devices policies allow you to control whether users can connect and disconnect removable devices from their ACE instances A removable devices policy is applied to an ACE enabled virtual machine and affects all users of all instances created from that ACE enabled virtual machine VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player When you select Removable Devices in the policy editor all removable device types for this ACE enabled virtual machine are displayed in a list You can specify which devices to allow end users to access Setting USB Device Policies You can set USB device policies to restrict the ACE user s access to USB devices The policies are dynamic so you can allow and then block access to USB devices Access Levels for USB Devices You can set restrictions at various levels of specificity and you can mix levels of restriction in a policy setting The levels of restriction are m Specific USB device For example
451. osts open a terminal and run VMware Inc 289 Workstation User s Manual ifconfig Set Up Routing Between Two Host Only Networks 290 If you are setting up a complex test network that uses virtual machines you might want to have two independent host only networks with a router between them There are two basic approaches In one the router software runs on the host computer In the other the router software runs in its own virtual machine In both cases you need two host only interfaces The examples described here outline the simplest case with one virtual machine on each of the host only networks For more complex configurations you can add more virtual machines and host only networks as appropriate To set up routing between two host only networks 1 Set up the connection to the first default host only interface as described in Set Up Using Configuration 1 or 2 on page 288 Set up the connection to the second vmnet2 host only interface as described in Set Up Using Configuration 1 or 2 on page 288 Optional If you plan to run the router software on a virtual machine set up a third virtual machine with connections to the two host only interfaces as described in Set Up Using Configuration 3 on page 289 To run the router software on your host computer skip this step The rest of the steps in this procedure describe how to configure the virtual machines to use static IP addresses Stop
452. ot p l snapshotofa q linked clone Test Case 3 Snapshot for You Are Pass Clone of W Here p Snapshot created 3 27 2007 5 26 03 PM thumbnail of Name fTestCase2Fal e selected ae snapshot s details Description Failed system tests a display A L command buttons it snapshot s selected The snapshot tree shows all snapshots for the virtual machine and the relationship between snapshots The You Are Here icon is not a snapshot It shows the current state of the virtual machine See Snapshot Relationships on page 190 VMware Inc 193 Workstation User s Manual 194 NOTE Point to a snapshot without clicking to display the complete name of that snapshot Most snapshot manager actions are available as menu commands from the VM gt Snapshot menu The following actions however are available only from the snapshot manager m Renaming a snapshot The Name text box is editable If you rename a snapshot for a cloned virtual machine use the Description field for future identification m Changing or adding a description The Description text box is editable m Deleting a snapshot See Delete a Snapshot or a Recording on page 197 The snapshot manager has a slightly different appearance on Linux hosts as shown in Figure 10 5 Figure 10 5 Snapshot Manager on a Linux Host Snapshot Manager E Gi 9 9 Take Snapshot Delete Clone Zoom In Zoom Out Windows XP Snapshot 1
453. ot fixes on Windows systems if hot fixes are enabled See ACE Tools vmware acetool Command Line Tool on page 450 and Respond to Hot Fix Requests on page 452 For managed ACE instances the CPID is stored on the server and the administrator can update it See the ACE Management Server User s Guide Setting Resource Signing Policies You can set the resource signing policy so that an ACE instance cannot be run if resource files such as policy scripts or custom EULA text files are tampered with A resource is considered any file in the ACE Resources subdirectory in the virtual machine directory on the Workstation host Files that are put in this directory on the end user s machine are not resources in this sense and are not signature checked VMware Inc 383 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Signature checking is performed on the end user s machine at power on and then every time a script is run You can specify whether to verify all files in the ACE Resources directory or just the policy scripts in that directory If you are creating a package that has substantial resources such as large files or large numbers of files signature checking might take a long time In this case consider verifying scripts only or not using resource signing NOTE If you set the encryption package setting options to None any verification specified in the resource signing policy is not performed The encryption package setting overrides
454. ot possible to view this policy on Windows Vista Home Premium and Vista Home Basic Configuring the Firewall on Windows XP SP2 Virtual Machines Windows XP SP2 systems have the firewall enabled by default To debug in a virtual machine with Windows XP SP2 you must disable the firewall or configure it appropriately VMware recommends disabling the firewall Virtual machines are protected behind the host firewall For information on setting up remote debugging in Visual Studio using Windows XP SP2 with the firewall enabled see http support microsoft com default aspx scid kb 5BLN 5D 83397742020 VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Configuring User Accounts Log in to the guest operating system with an Administrator account Use the same local or domain user account on the host machine to log in to the guest operating system NOTE The user name password and domain name if not local on both systems must match on the host and the guest Otherwise the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest will not be able to communicate with the Visual Studio debugger on the host For additional information on setting up Windows user accounts for remote debugging see http msdn2 microsoft com en us library ms164725 aspx Communication between Visual Studio and the guest operating system is not initiated until the virtual machine is powered on and the configured user is logged in The user runs the Remote Deb
455. ou can use the VMware Tools service to execute specific commands when you shut down or restart the guest operating system This is in addition to any script that you specified to run when you shut down the guest operating system 1 Use a text editor to open the following file etc vmware tools tools conf Add one or both of the following commands to the file halt command lt command gt lt command gt is the command to execute when you shut down the guest operating system reboot command lt command gt VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools lt command gt is the command to execute when you restart the guest operating system Passing a String from the Host to the Guest at Startup To pass a string from the host to the guest at startup you pass the string from your virtual machine s configuration file in the host to the guest operating system when you power on the virtual machine You can pass items like the Windows system ID SID a machine name or an IP address Inside the guest operating system startup script you can have the service retrieve this string The string can then be used in another script to set your virtual machine s system ID machine name or IP address Use this strategy for example to make copies of the same configuration file add a different string to each either in the configuration file itself or at the command line and use these variations of the same conf
456. ou switch the host to use a static IP address instead of DHCP and configure the host with only a subset of the characteristics defined for your zone such as only network address or network address and DNS server information Also consider that the addresses or names of certain servers can change over time Such changes can also introduce detection issues Using a smaller set of information in a zone description such as only the network address and the subnet mask is safer The disadvantage is that it increases the chance that a false positive or misidentification can occur Such false positives are especially likely if your network is using a common netblock such as 10 8 172 16 12 or 192 168 16 that is also used by other networks Descriptions of the Zone Condition Settings Each zone description must contain one or more of the following setting options describing the conditions of the zone m Domain Specifies the domain name of the network such as mycompany com Enter only one domain name The value of Allow subdomains of this domain governs the interpretation of this option m Allow subdomains of this domain Modifies the Domain option It specifies whether for the Domain zone condition to be met a domain name must exactly match the domain name specified in the Domain box or whether a match of the domain name is made any time the string contains lt domain_name gt For example VMware Inc 387 VMware ACE Administrato
457. outer software in a third virtual machine set the default router addresses in the first two virtual machines based on those used by the third virtual machine In the first virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the third virtual machine s network adapter connected to vmnetl In the second virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the third virtual machine s network adapter connected to vmnet2 You can now be able to ping the router machine from virtual machines 1 and 2 If the router software is set up correctly you can communicate between the first and second virtual machines 291 Workstation User s Manual Using Virtual Network Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host Workstation does not allow the virtual network adapter to go into promiscuous mode unless the user running Workstation has permission to make that setting This follows the standard Linux practice that only root can put a network interface into promiscuous mode When you install and configure Workstation you must run the installation as root Workstation creates the vmnet devices with root ownership and root group ownership which means that only root has read and write permissions to the devices To set the virtual machine s network adapter to promiscuous mode you must launch Workstation as root because you must have read and write acces
458. ow to install update and run VMware Tools This chapter includes the following topics Components of VMware Tools on page 103 Installing VMware Tools on page 105 VMware Tools Update Process on page 117 Uninstall VMware Tools on page 120 Repair or Change Installed Modules on page 120 Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest on page 126 Customizations to VMware Tools on page 127 Use the VMware Tools Command Line Interface on page 133 Components of VMware Tools VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools you lose important functionality and convenience VMware Tools includes the following components VMware Inc VMware Tools service VMware device drivers 103 Workstation User s Manual 104 VMware user process VMware Tools control panel VMware Tools Service The program file is called VMwareService exe on Windows guest operating systems and vmware guestd on Linux FreeBSD and Solaris guests This service performs various duties within the guest operating system Passes messages from the host operating system to the guest operating system Executes commands in the operating system to cleanly shut down or restart a Linux FreeBS
459. own ACE instance that can run on the host Do one of the following m Ifyou are creating a new ACE instance create a package for this ACE enabled virtual machine and install it on the end user s host m If you are creating an update for a standalone ACE instance create an update package m Ifyou are creating an update for a managed ACE instance open the virtual machine and publish the changes to the ACE Management Server Changes to the al LowVMs property or the requiredCreator ID property represent changes to host wide policies Packages that include these host policies require administrator privileges to install Run Multiple ACE Instances on an End User s Machine To run multiple ACE instances on the end user s machine determine which ACE enabled virtual machine you want to use for setting host wide policies To run multiple ACE instances on an end user s machine 1 Edit the aceMaster dat file for the other ACE enabled virtual machines and set the creator ID property to the same value that you used in Step 5 Set only the creatorID property and not the requiredCreatorID property for these other virtual machines Repeat Step 6 Writing Plug In Policy Scripts 402 You can write scripts to control certain policies in VMware Player You may use any language that is supported on the user s computer For security reasons scripts must be deployed as part of a package and installed by the package installer User
460. ox you can change the range of IP addresses provided by the Workstation DHCP server on a particular virtual network DHCP Settings xi m Settings VMnet host Subnet Netmask Start IP address 168 245 128 End IP address 192 168 245 254 Broadcast address Lease duration for DHCP clients Days Hours Minutes Default lease time jo jo a 30 a Max lease time jo a fe 0 a Cancel Help You can also use this dialog box to set the duration of DHCP leases provided to clients on the virtual network 5 Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual network editor Change Subnet or DHCP Settings on a Linux Host NAT and host only network types can have settings for subnet IP You can use the virtual network editor to change subnet settings for a virtual network on a Linux host You can also use the virtual network editor to specify that a local DHCP service distributes IP addresses to virtual machines To change DHCP settings further edit the dhcp conf file See Configuring the DHCP Server on a Linux Host on page 279 VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network To change subnet or DHCP settings on a Linux host 1 On the Linux host do one of the following m From the desktop choose Applications gt System Tools gt VMware Network Configuration or the equivalent menu path for your version of Linux m Open a terminal window and enter
461. p UDP port forwarding example 6000 192 168 27 128 6001 Using Samba with Workstation If you have Samba running on your Linux host you can configure Samba so that it works with Workstation as described in this section Modify your Samba configuration so that it includes the IP subnet used by the Workstation virtual network adapter vmnet1 To determine which subnet is being used by vmnet1 run sbin ifconfig vmnet1 Make sure the Samba password file includes entries for all users of the virtual machine who will access the host s file system The user names and passwords in the Samba password file must match those used for logging on to the guest operating system Add Users to the Samba Password File You can add user names and passwords to the Samba password file at any time from a terminal window on your Linux host computer To add users to the Samba password file 1 Log on to the root account su 2 Run the Samba password command smbpasswd a lt username gt lt username gt is the user name to add 3 Follow the instructions on the screen 4 Log out of the root account exit Using a Samba Server for Bridged and Host Only Networks To use your Samba server for both host only and bridged networking you must modify one parameter in the smb conf file You can define the interface parameter so your Samba server serves multiple interfaces An example of this is interface ethO vmnet1 VMware Inc 305 Workstation Us
462. p Appliance View for a Virtual Machine on page 169 If you attempt to use this policy without enabling appliance view an error message appears when the user attempts to start the ACE instance Do not allow users to modify the memory allocation The Change Memory Allocation command does not appear in the VMware Player gt Troubleshoot menu of VMware Player Reduce virtual machine memory size if needed when powering on The virtual machine powers on even if the amount of available memory is less than the amount configured for the virtual machine If you do not use this feature and the required amount of memory is not available users need to modify the memory allocation to power on the virtual machine Enhanced Virtual Keyboard Settings Use the following information to decide which features are enabled Use the enhanced virtual keyboard for secure input This setting applies to only to Windows hosts running 32 bit Windows guests except for Windows Vista guests This feature provides better handling of international keyboards and keyboards with extra keys It also provides security improvements because it processes raw keyboard input as soon as possible bypassing Windows keystroke processing and any malware that is not already at a lower layer If an ACE instance uses this feature when end users press Ctrl Alt Delete the guest system only rather than both guest and host responds to the command Before you create a runtime po
463. p in mind that you cannot close the replay control dialog box Replay Speed Control Controls the replay speed of a recording Click the right button to increase the replay speed to the maximum Click the left button to decrease the replay speed to normal NOTE The speed of a playback depends on the host activity and workload of the guest Making a Recording 238 While making a recording you cannot pause or reverse it V CAUTION While a recording is in progress avoid exiting Workstation and allowing the virtual machine to run in the background Doing so might cause the virtual machine to crash Always stop recording before sending a virtual machine to run in the background Before you begin verify the screen resolution settings The resolution cannot be changed during replay If you change from windowed mode to full screen mode during replay the auto fit feature does not work To make a recording 1 2 Power on the virtual machine To begin recording click the Record button in the toolbar or choose VM gt Replay gt Record VMware Inc Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity A recording specific snapshot is taken and the recording dialog box appears to indicate that recording is in progress If the Record command is unavailable the feature might not be enabled or the hard disk might be set to independent mode See Enabling Record Replay for a Virtual Machine on pag
464. pends on the number of monitors the host recognizes when it starts up For example if you power on a laptop that is undocked the host setting is one monitor even if you later place the running laptop in a docking station that uses two monitors Similarly if the host has one monitor and you suspend the virtual machine and change the host to have two monitors when you resume the virtual machine it is still configured to use one monitor You must restart the virtual machine to detect the new settings You might want to set a specific number of monitors if for example you are writing an application to be displayed on multiple monitors but the host you are using has only one monitor If you set a specific number of monitors also specify a sufficient maximum resolution The resolution of a host monitor that you use to display the virtual machine must not exceed the Maximum resolution setting you specify here Power on the virtual machine and choose View gt Full Screen For more information see Use Full Screen Mode on page 156 161 Workstation User s Manual 162 10 11 12 Make sure the virtual machine is completely powered on If when you power on the virtual machine it is set to be restored from a snapshot and if background snapshots are enabled powering on might take longer In this case displaying the virtual machine to two monitors might not work correctly at first If you see this issue go to Edit gt Pre
465. pens double click the RPM installer in the root of the CD ROM m If you see a file manager window double click the RPM installer file In some Linux distributions the VMware Tools CD icon might fail to appear In this case install VMware Tools from the command line When prompted enter the root password and click OK The installer prepares the packages Click Continue when the installer presents a dialog box that shows Completed System Preparation A dialog box appears with a progress bar When the installer is done no confirmation window or finish button appears but VMware Tools is installed In an X terminal as root su run the following file to configure VMware Tools vmware config tools pl Respond to the questions the command line wizard displays on the screen Press Enter to accept the default value Exit from the root account exit In an X terminal to start the VMware Tools control panel enter the following command vmware toolbox amp To change the default VMware Tools configuration options see Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Install VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar or RPM Installer Before you begin make sure the virtual machine is powered on and the guest operating system is running To install VMware Tools from the command line with the tar or RPM installer 1 2 3 VMware Inc On the host choose VM gt Install VMware Tools On the guest log in as
466. pes of dynamic volumes except RAID Only Master Boot Record MBR disks are supported GUID Partition Table GPT disks are not supported Disk Space Allocation As is the case when you use the New Virtual Machine wizard you must specify whether to allocate all the space at creation time or allow the files to grow Allocating space at creation time gives better performance but is a time consuming process VMware recommends that you allow the disk to grow Select the option Split disk into 2GB files if your virtual disk is stored on a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB Full or Linked Clones If the source is a virtual machine you can create a full or linked clone On the Virtual Machines Options page of the Conversion wizard select Import and Convert to create a full clone Select Share source and store changes separately to create a linked clone NOTE For Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server virtual machines you have a third option Instead of creating a full or linked clone you can have the converted virtual machine use the original Microsoft virtual hard disk This option modifies the source virtual machine See Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server Virtual Hard Disks on page 141 VMware Inc 143 Workstation User s Manual Linked clones can be created from VMware virtual machines Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery virtual machines sv2i files Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server virtu
467. ported Solaris 32 bit 37 supported Solaris 64 bit 37 upgrades 99 Windows 32 bit 36 Windows 64 bit 36 GUID Partition Table GPT disks 143 H Hardware tab in virtual machine settings editor 79 headless virtual machines run in the background 81 238 help configuring Web browser for 45 host defined 26 hard disk space required 27 operating system defined 495 optical drives supported 27 system requirements 26 host computer 495 VMware Inc Host network access policies interactions with tunneling protocols 392 host policies 384 441 host virtual adapters 275 host virtual network mapping 271 272 host guest data script policies 382 host only networking basic configuration 263 defined 495 selecting IP addresses 277 hot fix policies 400 responding 452 hot keys for full screen switch mode 358 359 in Workstation preferences 325 Hot Keys tab 78 ICMP 294 IDE drive supported in host 27 drives in virtual machine 33 optical drive supported in host 27 IDESCSI setting up virtual disk as 215 image file floppy 34 230 ISO 33 227 230 importing virtual machines 137 139 independent disk 192 initialization scripts for instance customization package settings 417 install guest operating system 96 on Linux host 45 on Windows host 41 VMware Inc Index silent 43 108 software in a virtual machine 165 installing ACE instance on a Linux host 446 ACE instance on a Windows host 441 Pocket ACE on porta
468. power off and close the ACE enabled virtual machine Use a text editor to open the aceMaster dat file for the ACE enabled virtual machine This file is located in the same directory as the configuration file vmx file for the ACE enabled virtual machine Optional To specify that non ACE virtual machines cannot run on the host find the al lowVMs property and change it from 1 to 0 Find the requiredCreatorID property and set it to an identifier For example to set the required creator ID to creator1 edit the line as follows requiredCreatorID creator1 You set requiredCreatorID once for each host You do not need to set this property on other ACE instances that run on the same host This is a host wide policy which requires an administrator to install the package Find the creatorID property and set it to the same identifier For example to set the creator ID to creator1 edit the line as follows creatorID creator1 Only ACE instances with this creator ID can run on the same host The ID string is in plain text in the aceMaster dat file on the administrator s machine but it is hidden in the policy file 401 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual If you publish the policy set of an ACE instance to requiredCreator yourPolicySetting and install it on a host only you or others with access to the administrator files know what the creator ID is Without knowing the requiredCreator policy setting you cannot create your
469. pping Before you begin perform the following tasks Verify that the X server is an XFree86 server running on a PC If the X server is remote configure it to use key code mapping See Configure Keyboard Mapping for a Remote X Server on page 327 For a description of key code mapping see X Key Codes Compared to Keysyms on page 329 Determine the X key code and the corresponding v scan code for the key To find the X key code for a key run xev or xmodmap pk Most v scan codes are listed in V Scan Code Table on page 331 To change how a specific key is mapped 1 2 Power off the virtual machine and close the Workstation window On the machine that hosts the virtual machine add the following line to the virtual machine configuration vmx file or to vmware config xkeymap keycode lt code gt lt v scan code gt The lt code gt value must be a decimal number and lt v scan code gt must bea C syntax hexadecimal number for example 0x001 For example to swap left Ctrl and Caps Lock use the following lines xkeymap keycode 64 Qx 1d X Caps_Lock gt VM left ctrl xkeymap keycode 37 0x03a X Control_L gt VM caps lock Save and close the file VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices X Key Codes Compared to Keysyms Pressing a key on the PC keyboard generates a PC scan code based roughly on the position of the key For example the Z key on a German keyboard generates the sam
470. pre execution commands m Optional Actions to perform after an application launched from Eclipse is terminated including m Run specified post execution commands for example to perform cleanup tasks m Set the virtual machine state to m Suspended default m Revert to the most recent snapshot m Powered off Installation Requirements for the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger Environment 464 Review the requirements and recommendations in this section before following the instructions in Chapter 2 Installing VMware Workstation on page 39 to install the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger as an optional component of Workstation 6 5 This section describes the requirements for host and guest systems Eclipse and the Java Runtime Environment JRE During Windows installation if Eclipse is not installed in C Program Files Eclipse or C Eclipse you must use the Custom setup to select the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger component and specify the Eclipse directory location During Linux installation you must override the default value of No when prompted by vmware config pl to install the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger VMware Inc Appendix B Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger When you install the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger m The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger plug in ivd jar Foundry Java bindings and the plugin xml launch configuration file are placed in the com vmware
471. problems m Lost or forgotten password m Expired ACE instance m Copy protected ACE instance run from a new location For information about enabling the hot fix feature see Setting Hot Fix Policies for Standalone ACE Instances on page 400 For information about setting a recovery key which you must have to send a hot fix for a lost or forgotten user password see Set a Recovery Key for Encrypted ACE Instances on page 380 When the hot fix feature is enabled if an end user sees a notification that the ACE instance is expired or copy protected a Request Hot Fix button appears in the dialog box The user clicks this button which launches the Hot Fix Request wizard This wizard generates a hot fix request file The user can submit this file to the administrator as an email attachment or in some other way To respond to a hot fix request 1 When you receive the hot fix request file save it to a location that you can access from the administrator machine where Workstation is installed 2 Open the ACE enabled virtual machine for the instance that requires the hot fix 3 Choose File gt Open 4 Navigate to the location of the hot fix request file and click Open A hot fix tab opens in the Workstation window The hot fix tab displays the user s name and email address the problem that led to the hot fix request and any additional note the user entered 5 Click Approve hot fix 6 Enter the appropriate information in the dialog
472. pt g Enter Yes when prompted to run vmware config pl h Respond to the prompts as described in Run vmware config pl on page 47 Using the RPM Installer a Run RPM specifying the installation file rpm Uhv VMware lt xxxx gt rpm VMware lt xxxx gt rpm is the installation file on the CD In place of lt xxxx gt the filename contains numbers that correspond to the version and build b Run the configuration program vmware config pl c Respond to the prompts as described in Run vmware config pl on page 47 VMware Inc Chapter 2 Installing VMware Workstation Configuring Workstation with vmware config pl This section describes how to use vmware config pl to configure your installation of VMware Workstation NOTE Ifyou run the RPM installer you need to run this program separately from the command line If you install from the tar archive the installer offers to launch the configuration program for you Answer Yes when you see the prompt Required Configuration Changes Configuration with vmware config pl is required in the following circumstances m When you install VMware Workstation the first time m When you upgrade your version of Workstation m When you upgrade your host operating system kernel It is not necessary to reinstall Workstation after you upgrade your kernel m To reconfigure the networking options for Workstation for example to add or remove host only networking Location of
473. ptional Set a password for connecting to the virtual machine from a VNC client The password can be up to 8 characters long Because it is not encrypted when it is sent by the VNC client do not use a password that you use for other systems Click OK After you set up a virtual machine as a VNC server you can see a list of users who are remotely connected to the virtual machine and find out how long they have been connected Right click the VNC icon in the status bar for the virtual machine Use a VNC Client to Connect to a Virtual Machine You can install a VNC client on your host and connect to a running virtual machine Before you begin determine the machine name or IP address of the virtual machine and if applicable the VNC port number and password See Configure a Virtual Machine as a VNC Server on page 167 For information about mapping the keyboard to various languages see Specify a Language Keyboard Map for VNC Clients on page 325 168 VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines The following issues are known to occur when you connect to virtual machines with a VNC client m You cannot take or revert to snapshots m You cannot change the power state of the virtual machine That is you cannot power on power off suspend or resume You can shut down the guest operating system however which might power off the virtual machine m You cannot copy and paste text between the host and gue
474. pture snapshot of virtual machine 189 virtual machine activity 233 CD adding drive to virtual machine 227 CD ROM image file 33 legacy emulation mode for 228 CD package delivery 430 Cfg file 100 change team name 248 virtual machine name 74 Change Version wizard 57 changing deployment platform for an ACE enabled virtual machine 423 changing the JVM path 469 clock real time on Linux host 45 synchronize guest and host 122 clone creating clone in New Team wizard 246 251 MAC address and UUID 201 moving linked clones 209 network identity 204 overview 201 virtual machine inateam 257 clone template 203 clones creating in Clone Virtual Machine wizard 203 enable template mode 203 full 202 IP address 204 linked 202 static IP address 204 cmd command for VMware Tools 135 VMware Inc color display on VNC clients 167 screen in a virtual machine 307 comm port See serial connection serial port command line interface for VMware Tools 133 for Workstation 455 vmrun 457 commands keyboard shortcuts 82 startup on the command line 455 startup on Windows hosts 456 configuration pages 485 configuration properties setting post debug event properties 488 setting pre debug event properties 488 setting virtual machine properties 487 configurations creating 485 creating to attach to applications 471 creating to start applications 469 deleting 472 duplicating to attach to applications 471 duplica
475. puter Figure 4 3 Console View Windows Host Console View button File Edit View vM Team Windows Help la ZID scie bel Mee Sidebar gt Powered On EB vista vM E Windows XP Professional Y Favorites 8 Team Windows Ms E Red Hat 3 8 amp 3 Team QA VMs G Clone of Red Hat 3 Mixed version team E Red Hat Linux 2 Windows VMs E Windows 2000 Profess E vista VM E Windows XP Professior E WKS 4 x VMs ry BH 1 22PM To release cursor press Ctrl Alt When a virtual machine is active the name of the virtual machine or team of virtual machines is displayed in a tab at the top of the console To switch from the active virtual machine or team click the tab of another virtual machine or team You can use the console tabs in the windowed mode and also in the quick switch mode Appliance View If you set up the virtual machine to act as an appliance such as a Web server with a browser based console you can specify that the default view is an appliance view The appliance view gives you a brief description of the type of server or appliance It also provides a link that opens the browser on the host system and connects to the appliance s management console 66 VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Figure 4 4 Appliance View Windows Host Appliance View button 7 windows XP Professional Wks 6 VMware Work
476. r 38 VMware Inc Installing VMware Workstation This chapter discusses how to install Workstation on your Linux or Windows host This chapter contains the following topics Installation Prerequisites on page 39 Sharing a Workstation Host with Other VMware Products on page 40 Install Workstation on a Windows Host on page 41 Install Workstation on a Linux Host on page 45 Where to Go Next on page 49 If you are upgrading rather than performing a fresh installation see Chapter 3 Upgrading Workstation and Virtual Machines on page 51 Installation Prerequisites Installing VMware Workstation is usually a simple process of running a standard installation wizard Before you run the installation program be sure you have the following VMware Inc Compatible host Verify that the computer and host operating system meet the system requirements for running Workstation See Host System Requirements on page 26 Workstation installation software If you bought the packaged distribution of Workstation the installation software is on the CD in your package If you bought the electronic distribution the installation software is in the file you downloaded Workstation is available for both Windows and Linux host computers The installation files for both host platforms are included on the same CD ROM 39 Workstation User s Manual Workstation serial number Your serial number is on
477. r and more automatic than statically assigning them Most Windows operating systems for example come preconfigured to use DHCP at boot time so Windows virtual machines can connect to the network the first time they are booted without additional configuration If you want your virtual machines to communicate with each other using names instead of IP addresses however you must set up a naming convention a name server on the private network or both In that case it might be simpler to use static IP addresses VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking In general if you have virtual machines you intend to use frequently or for extended periods of time it is probably most convenient to assign them static IP addresses or configure the VMware DHCP server to always assign the same IP address to each of these virtual machines Configuring the DHCP Server on a Linux Host On a Linux host you configure the host only DHCP server by editing the DHCP configuration file for vmnet1 etc vmware vmnet1 dhcp dhcp conf To configure the DHCP server for the NAT network edit the configuration file for vmnet8 etc vmware vmnet8 dhcp dhcp conf NOTE When you configure Workstation by running the vmware config pl file all edits made to the dhcp conf files are lost Editing the DHCP server configuration file requires information that is best obtained directly from the DHCP server documentation Consult the manual pages dhcpd 8 a
478. r computing environments software developers QA engineers trainers salespeople who run demos and anyone who wants to create virtual machines VMware Inc 19 Workstation User s Manual Document Feedback If you have comments about this documentation submit your feedback to docfeedback vmware com Technical Support and Education Resources The following sections describe the technical support resources available to you Self Service Support Use the VMware Technology Network VMTN for self help tools and technical information m Product information http www vmware com products m Technology information http www vmware com communities content m Documentation http www vmware com support pubs m VMTN Knowledge Base http kb vmware com m Discussion forums http www vmware com community m User groups http www vmware com communities content vmug For more information about the VMware Technology Network go to the VMware Communities page at http www vmware com community index jspa Online and Telephone Support Use online support to submit technical support requests view your product and contract information and register your products Go to http www vmware com support Customers with appropriate support contracts should use telephone support for the fastest response on priority 1 issues Go to http www vmware com support phone_support html Support Offerings Find out how VMw
479. r s Manual 388 if this option is selected corp mycompany com is considered a match for mycompany com If this option is not selected corp mycompany comis not considered a match for mycompany com Network address Specifies an IP address or subnet range that the network uses The value of lt subnet gt if you include a subnet range must be the number of bits in the netmask A network adapter matches this condition if it is using an IP address that lies within any of the specified ranges DNS servers Specifies one or more IP addresses or host names for DNS servers on the network A network adapter matches this condition if it is using at least one of these servers If the value of the Match at least option is greater than 1 the host must be using the specified number of DNS servers on the list before a network adapter is considered to be on the defined network Because multiple methods exist for assigning DNS domain names to a Linux host using just the DNS domain name to define a zone can be error prone To define a zone for a Linux host use criteria in addition to the DNS domain names DHCP servers Specifies one or more IP addresses or host names for DHCP servers on the network A network adapter matches this condition if it is using at least one of these servers Gateway servers Specifies one or more IP addresses or host names for default gateways on the network A network adapter matches this condition if
480. r that runs in a window on your physical computer However Workstation displays more than the screen of another computer From the Workstation window you can access and run virtual machines and teams of virtual machines You can also switch easily from one to another 62 VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Figure 4 1 VMware Workstation Window menus File Edit view YM Team Windows Help au 6 SaR Deo oee ss toolbar _ Sidebar x E gt Powered On a E vista vM E Windows XP Professional V EI Favorites 533 Team Windows VMs GD Red Hat 3 423 Team QA VMs yj Clone of Red Hat 3 sidebar _ tabs home page summary or console view status bar amp Mixed version team E Red Hat Linux E 3 Windows YMs E Windows 2000 Profess E Vista vm windows XP Professior E WKS 4 x VMs message log Ar E 1 22PM o release cursor press Ctrl Alt The VMware Workstation window contains the following sections VMware Inc Home page summary console or appliance view This main part of the window shows the virtual machines Tabs Each open virtual machine has its own tab Click a tab to make that virtual machine active Click the X to close the tab Depending on how you configure Workstation the virtual machine is then either powered off or continues to run in the background Sidebar Bookmark your favorite virtual machines
481. r that version If one of the feature compatibility check boxes is available for the version you select you can select the check box to see a list of the additional limitations On the Guest Operating System Installation page specify the location of the operating system installation media and click Next If you select Installer disc or Installer disc image file and if the wizard can detect the operating system you might not see a wizard pages for selecting the operating system If the Select a Guest Operating System page appears select the operating system including the version to install and click Next If the Easy Install Information page appears specify the following and click Next m Optional The product key If you specify a product key you are not prompted for it later during installation of the operating system Enter a product key even if the installation media already contains a product key VMware Inc 10 11 12 VMware Inc Chapter 5 Creating a Virtual Machine m A name for registering the operating system For Windows guests do not use the name Administrator or Guest If you use one of these names you will receive an error message during installation of the operating system and be prompted to enter a different name m Optional Password On Windows operating systems other than Windows 2000 the password you enter here is used for an account with Administrator permissions On Windows 2000
482. rated OpenGL 2 0 If you are unsure check with your hardware manufacturer With regards to software upgrade the host s video drivers to the latest version available m AMD drivers are available at ati amd com support driver html m NVIDIA drivers are available at www nvidia com content drivers drivers asp Be sure to follow the video card manufacturer s instructions carefully This feature is not supported on Linux hosts with drivers below version 8 02 If you are using a Windows XP host make sure hardware acceleration is turned up in the display properties a Right click the desktop and choose Properties gt Settings gt Advanced gt Troubleshoot b Move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to the Full position If you are using Linux test your Linux host for compatibility a To verify that direct rendering is enabled run glxinfo grep direct b To ensure that 3 D applications work on your host run 309 Workstation User s Manual glxgears After your host is configured configure a virtual machine for accelerated 3 D To enable a virtual machine for accelerated 3 D 1 Choose a virtual machine with a Windows XP guest operating system Do not enable Direct3D on a virtual machine that is powered on or suspended 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware gt Display 4 Inthe Monitors section if the virtual machine is set to use more tha
483. ration and close the virtual machine settings editor Modify Existing Virtual Network Adapters Before you begin determine the network type you want to use See Common Networking Configurations on page 260 To modify existing virtual network adapters 1 a A N Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab select the adapter you want to modify Select the network type you want to use Optional If you select Custom choose the vmnet virtual network you want to use for the network from the drop down list Although vmnet0 vmnet1 and vmnet8 are technically available in this list they are normally used for bridged host only and NAT configurations respectively Special steps are required to make them available for use in custom configurations You should choose one of the other switches Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual machine settings editor Be sure the guest operating system is configured to use an appropriate IP address on the new network If the guest is using DHCP release and renew the lease If the IP address is set statically be sure the guest has an address on the correct virtual network Configuring Bridged Networking Although the user interface for the virtual network editor is somewhat different on Windows and Linux host both allow you to configure bridged network
484. re ACE Management Server User s Guide Pocket ACE Enables an administrator to bundle and deploy an ACE onto a USB portable media device including USB flash drives Apple iPod mobile digital devices and portable hard drives Network and Disk Space Requirements for the Administrative Workstation As an administrator you use Workstation to create and manage the virtual machines you distribute to end users Following is a list of prerequisites for the machine that hosts Workstation VMware Inc If your company already has a library of standard virtual machines you need network access to that library from your host computer If you are creating virtual machines you need access to installers for the guest operating systems and application software that you plan to install in the virtual machines You can install operating systems from CDs ISO image files on a local drive or on the network or a PXE server You can install application software from CDs or installers on a local drive or on the network You need to provide adequate disk space for virtual machine files and package files The files for each virtual machine can be as large as several gigabytes The package files can also be large The default location for the package files is the Packages folder inside the virtual machine s folder 369 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Workstation needs a substantial amount of temporary working space when it creates a package
485. re Tools is installed in a Windows guest operating system but the VMware Tools icon does not appear in the notification area of the Windows taskbar you can use the Windows Control Panel to display it To display the VMware Tools taskbar icon 1 2 3 Go to Start gt Control Panel Double click the VMware Tools icon On the Options tab select Show VMware Tools in the taskbar and click Apply Options Tab Settings The Options tab of the VMware Tools control panel provides the following options Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system Synchronizes the time in the guest with the time on the host if the clock in the guest lags behind the time set on the host If you use this option disable all other time synchronization mechanisms For example some guests might have NTP or CMOS clock synchronization turned on by default VMware recommends that you use the VMware Tools time synchronization mechanism Show VMware Tools in the taskbar Windows guests only Displays the VMware Tools icon in the notification area of the taskbar The icon indicates whether VMware Tools is running and whether an update is available Notify if upgrade is available Windows guests only Displays the VMware Tools icon with a yellow caution icon when an update is available Upgrade button Windows guests only Becomes enabled when an update is available Clicking this button has the same effect as choosing VM
486. re User Process The program file is called VMwareUser exe on Windows guests and vmware user on Linux and Solaris guests This service performs the following tasks within the guest operating system m Enables you to copy and paste text between the guest and host operating systems and copy and paste files between the host operating systems and Windows Linux and Solaris guest operating systems m Enables you to drag and drop files between the host operating systems and Windows Linux and Solaris guest operating systems m On Linux and Solaris guests grabs and releases the mouse cursor when the SVGA driver is not installed m On Linux and Solaris guests fits the guest s screen resolution to the host s The VMware Tools user process is not installed on NetWare operating systems Instead the vmwtool program is installed It controls the grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor It also allows you copy and paste text You cannot drag and drop or copy and paste files between hosts and NetWare guest operating systems VMware Tools Control Panel The VMware Tools control panel lets you modify settings shrink virtual disks and connect and disconnect virtual devices See Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Installing VMware Tools The installers for VMware Tools for Windows Linux FreeBSD Solaris and NetWare guest operating systems are installed with VMware Workstation as ISO image files When you choose V
487. record replay feature records all the processor instructions of the virtual machine throughout the time of the recording This feature helps software developers and QA engineers to record a bug and attach a debugger while replaying the recording V CAUTION Features with experimental support are not enabled on production systems Enabling the record replay feature might cause the host to crash causing you to lose data After you enable the record replay feature for a virtual machine start recording by clicking the Record button and click the Stop button to end the recording You can make multiple recordings and use the snapshot manager to name delete and play them While you are making a recording you can take snapshots of events and replay VMware Inc 233 Workstation User s Manual them You can also make an execution trace file of a recording to record events that occur during the recording Playing a recording is in some respects similar to going to a snapshot When you play a recording you discard the current state of the virtual machine and go to the recording At any time when the recording is playing you can click the Go Live button and resume interacting with the guest operating system at the state the virtual machine is in when you click Go Live NOTE Recordings are not interchangeable between different versions of Workstation The recordings made with this release will not work with Workstation 6 and upcoming 6 5 ver
488. red The name of the shared folder is host Shared Folders ProjectName lt random_number gt When a guest path is selected the command is executed from the specified path on the guest The default is a host path through a shared folder VMware Inc Appendix C Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Set Remote Debug Monitor to the location of the Remote Debug Monitor on the host The default is the Visual Studio installed path typically Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Common7 IDE Remote Debugger x86 msvsmon exe m Use the default Remote Debug Monitor if you are debugging a 32 bit process in a 32 bit virtual machine m Optional If you want to debug a 32 bit process in a 64 bit virtual machine use the Remote Debug Monitor Program Files x86 Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Common7 IDE Remote Debugger x86 msvsmon exe m Optional If you want to debug a 64 bit process in a 64 bit virtual machine use the 64 bit Remote Debug Monitor Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 8 Common7 IDE Remote Debugger x64 msvsmon exe Type a name for the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest The default name is lt user name gt If a Remote Debug Monitor is already running on the guest when the new connection is made between the Remote Debug Monitor on the guest and the Visual Studio debugger on the host you are prompted to choose whether to connect to the one that is running or start another one with a different
489. rent keysym table determine which mapping table to use The tables are located in the xkeymap directory in the Workstation installation directory usually usr 1ib vmware Which table you must use depends on the keyboard layout The normal distribution includes tables for PC keyboards for the United States and a number of European countries and languages And for most of these there are both the 101 key or 102 key and the 104 key or 105 key variants If none of the mapping tables is completely correct find one that works best copy it to a new location and change the individual keysym mappings Workstation determines which table to use by examining the current X keymap However its decision making process can sometimes fail In addition each mapping is fixed and might not be completely correct for any given keyboard and X key code to keysym mapping For example a user might have swapped Ctrl and Caps Lock using xmodmap This means the keys are swapped in the virtual machine when using a remote server keysym mapping but are unswapped when using a local server key code mapping You can correct this situation by using configuration settings To configure how keysyms are mapped 1 2 Power off the virtual machine and close the Workstation window On the machine that hosts the virtual machine add one or more of the following lines to the virtual machine configuration vmx file or to vmware config m To disable X key code m
490. rguments 3 Perform debugging tasks as you would in a local debugging environment VMware Inc 473 Workstation User s Manual 474 VMware Inc Using the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger This chapter contains the following sections m Setting Up the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger Environment on page 477 m Managing Virtual Machine Configurations on page 485 m Running and Debugging Applications in Virtual Machines on page 489 The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger provides a configurable interface between Visual Studio and virtual machines making it easy to develop and debug applications that run in multiple Windows operating system environments on a single PC Debugging your applications in virtual machines enables you to reproduce and record errors while maintaining the integrity of the host machine You can perform typical debugging tasks such as pausing at breakpoints stepping through code and viewing and modifying the state of your application all without impacting the host environment The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger enables you to m Manage configuration settings for application execution and debugging in virtual machines m Start an application debugging session in a virtual machine m Start an application in a virtual machine without debugging m Start a debugging session that attaches to a process already running in a virtual machine You can manage con
491. rial Port Connection Between Two Virtual Machines on page 320 Power on both virtual machines Use the VM gt Removable Devices menu to make sure the serial port is connected If the serial port is not connected choose the virtual serial port and click Connect In the debugger virtual machine start debugging with WinDbg or KD Configuring Keyboard Features 324 You can change which key combinations you use for hot key sequences in Workstation and which language to use for the keyboard that VNC clients use In addition you can configure platform specific keyboard features for Windows and Linux hosts Use the Enhanced Virtual Keyboard for Windows Hosts This feature provides better handling of international keyboards and keyboards with extra keys It also offers security improvements because it processes raw keyboard input as soon as possible bypassing Windows keystroke processing and any malware that is not already at a lower layer This feature is currently available for all 32 bit Windows guests except Windows Vista guests If you use this feature when you press Ctrl Alt Delete the guest system only rather than both guest and host acts on the command Before you begin if you just installed or upgraded to Workstation 6 x and have not yet restarted your computer do so To use the enhanced virtual keyboard for Windows hosts 1 2 3 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM
492. riting to such a disk might make the snapshot or clone unusable To map a virtual disk to a drive on the host 1 2 3 Choose File gt Map or Disconnect Virtual Disks In the Map or Disconnect Virtual Drives dialog box click Map In the dialog box that appears click Browse navigate to a disk file vmdk file select it and click Open You are returned to the Map a Virtual Disk dialog box Select the volume to map and select a drive letter that is not being used on your host Click OK The drive appears in Windows Explorer on your host From the host you can read from or write to files on the mapped virtual disk Optional To view mapped drive choose VM gt Settings gt Hardware select the hard disk and click Utilities gt Map The Map Virtual Disk dialog box appears with the corresponding vmdk file already selected Disconnect the Host from the Virtual Disk To access the mapped virtual disk from a virtual machine again you must disconnect it You can disconnect the host from the virtual disk using two different methods To disconnect the host from the virtual disk 1 2 VMware Inc Choose File gt Map or Disconnect Virtual Disks In the Map or Disconnect Virtual Drives dialog box select a volume to disconnect and click Disconnect 185 Workstation User s Manual 3 If you receive an error message asking whether to forcibly disconnect click Yes 4 Click OK 5 Optional To view mapped driv
493. rk Settings Click the Automatic Bridging tab In the Excluded adapters section do one of the following m To remove an adapter select the adapter and click Remove m To add an adapter click Add In the Add Excluded Adapters dialog box select the listing for the adapter you want to add and click OK Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual network editor Designate a Physical Network Adapter to Bridge to Custom Virtual Switches Before you change the bridged adapter mappings make sure to check which virtual network the physical network adapter is going to be assigned to VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network CAUTION Ifyou reassign a physical network adapter to a different virtual VU network any virtual machine using the original network loses its network connectivity through that network You must then change the setting for each affected virtual machine s network adapter individually This can be especially troublesome if your host has only one physical network adapter and you reassign it to a vmnet other than vmnet0 In this case even though the vmnet still appears to be bridged to an automatically chosen adapter the only adapter it can use has been assigned to another vmnet To designate a physical network adapter to bridge to custom virtual switches 1 2 3 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings Click the Host Virtual Network Mapping tab Choose
494. rkstation Console to the Virtual Machine Display 163 Working with Nonstandard Resolutions 165 Install New Software in a Virtual Machine 165 Disable Acceleration If a Program Does Not Run 166 Use Removable Devices in a Virtual Machine 166 Using VNC for Remote Connections to a Virtual Machine 167 Configure a Virtual Machine as a VNC Server 167 Use a VNC Client to Connect to a Virtual Machine 168 Set Up Appliance View for a Virtual Machine 169 Create a Screenshot of a Virtual Machine 171 Create and Play Back a Movie of a Virtual Machine 171 Advanced Options for Application Developers 173 Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest 175 VMware Inc Using Drag and Drop 175 Enable or Disable Drag and Drop 176 Using Copy and Paste 176 Enable or Disable Copy and Paste 177 Using Shared Folders 177 Set Up Shared Folders 178 Enabling and Disabling Shared Folders 179 Viewing a Shared Folder 181 Permissions and Folder Mounting for Shared Folders on Linux Guests 182 Using a Mapped Drive for Windows Only 184 Map a Virtual Disk to a Drive on the Host 185 Workstation User s Manual Disconnect the Host from the Virtual Disk 185 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine 187 Using the Suspend and Resume Features 187 Use Hard Suspend or Soft Suspend 187 Suspend or Resume a Virtual Machine 188 Using Snapshots 189 Scenarios for Using Multiple Snapshots 189 Information Captured by Snapshots 191 Snapshot Conflicts 191 Enable or Disabl
495. rol Panel gt Add New Hardware Let Windows detect the new device Drivers for lomega Zip Drives on Windows 95 and 98 Guests On Windows 95 or Windows 98 use of older drivers for the lomega Zip drive might cause the guest operating system to lock up intermittently at boot time or during installation of the guest operating system The newest Iomega drivers work reliably in VMware tests To get the drivers go to the Iomega Web site and click on Support amp Downloads Configuring a Parallel Port on a Linux Host For a parallel port to work properly in a guest it must first be configured properly on the host Most issues with parallel ports are caused by mistakes in the host configuration The topics that follow provides troubleshooting procedures for checking the version of the Linux kernel device access permissions and required modules VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices Linux kernels in the 2 4 x and 2 6 x series also use a special arbitrator for access to the parallel port hardware If the parallel port is in use by the host the virtual machine cannot use it If a virtual machine is using the parallel port the host and any users accessing the host are denied access to the device You must use the VM gt Removable Devices to disconnect the parallel port from the virtual machine if you want to access the device from the host Configure Parallel Ports for Linux 2 2 x Kernels The 2 2 x kernels that support parallel ports u
496. ronment and allow end users to take that environment including documents settings applications and VPN access wherever they need to go This chapter includes the following topics m Portable Device Requirements on page 435 m Policies and Deployment Settings for Pocket ACE on page 436 m Create a Pocket ACE Package on page 436 m Deploying the ACE Package on a Portable Device on page 437 m Run the Pocket ACE Instance on page 439 Portable Device Requirements You can install ACE packages on the following types of devices m Flash memory drives USB keys m Flash based Apple iPod mobile digital devices m Hard drive based Apple iPod mobile digital devices m Portable hard drives VMware Inc 435 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual For USB devices use USB 2 high speed devices only When a Pocket ACE package is deployed to a removable device the virtual disk is preallocated to full capacity for enhanced performance Make sure that the removable device has enough disk space to store the virtual disk s total capacity memory and approximately 300MB for overhead See Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard on page 92 Policies and Deployment Settings for Pocket ACE Some policies apply only to Pocket ACE You can set Pocket ACE close behavior by editing the runtime preferences policy Close behavior determines whether the ACE instance is powered off or suspended when the user exits and whether c
497. rs configure the virtual machine for maximum compatibility with all expected host systems Because the configuration options for VMware Player are limited users are limited in their ability to make changes in a virtual machine so that it is compatible with their host systems Following are recommendations to help you configure virtual machines for maximum compatibility with VMware Player and with the widest range of host machines VMware Inc 211 Workstation User s Manual 212 Determine which virtual devices are actually required and dont include any that are not needed or useful for the software you are distributing with the virtual machine and VMware Player For example generic SCSI devices are extremely unlikely to be appropriate To connect a physical device to a virtual device use the Auto detect options when configuring the virtual machine The Auto detect options allow the virtual machine to adapt to the user s system and they work whether the host operating system is Windows or Linux Users who have no physical device receive a warning message To connect a CD ROM or floppy to an image file that you ship with the virtual machine make sure the image file is in the same directory as the virtual machine This way a relative path rather than an absolute path is used For both a physical CD ROM and an image provide two virtual CD ROM devices in the virtual machine VMware Player does not provide a way in the user interface
498. rs in the tooltip when device is connected player deviceBar lt deviceName gt tooltipDisc onnected string optional Normal tooltip Text that appears in the tooltip when device is disconnected player deviceBar lt deviceName gt icon filename Icon representing this type of device Custom icon file when device is connected player deviceBar lt deviceName gt iconDisconne cted filename optional Normal icon Custom icon file when device is disconnected player deviceBar lt deviceName gt shortcutKey keySpec Shortcut key combination to switch the device between connected and disconnected see Shortcut Key Values on page 411 410 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player Following are the device names you can use for lt deviceName gt in the parameter name m floppy0 floppy1 m serial0 seriall serial2 serial3 m parallel parallel1 parallel2 m ide0 0 ideO 1 ide1 0 ide1 1 IDE CD ROM or hard drives m scsi0 0 scsi 7 SCSI CD ROM or hard drives Shortcut Key Values Use virtual key codes to specify keyboard shortcuts Virtual key codes use hexadecimal format which is a hexadecimal number preceded by Ox For example to use the virtual key code of 5A as a value type Ox5A Microsoft provides a reference list of virtual key codes on its MSDN Web site You can also use the Ctrl Alt and Shift modifier key
499. rsion wizard to specify a destination for a newly created virtual machine VMware Inc Chapter 7 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine ESX Virtual Machine Destination You must supply the name of the ESX server and the user name and password for logging in VirtualCenter Virtual Machine Destination You must provide the following information m Name of the VirtualCenter server and the user name and password for logging in m Name of the folder in the VirtualCenter inventory where you want to store the virtual machine m Name of the host cluster or resource pool within a host or cluster from which the virtual machine is to be run If you select a cluster in manual mode you must also choose a specific host m Name of the datastore for the virtual machine s configuration files and disks Use the advanced setting to distribute the virtual machine s disks over multiple datastores Network Adapters You are prompted to choose from the available networks at the destination location For more information about networking choices for virtual machines used with Workstation rather than ESX or Virtual Center see Common Networking Configurations on page 260 Optional Guest Operating System Customization You can make changes to the identity of the virtual machine such as computer name and security ID networking information and so on with the wizard For virtual machines that are converted to
500. rties and click Continue when prompted for permission In the Properties dialog box select Internet Protocol TCP IP and click Properties In the TCP IP Properties dialog box click Advanced On the WINS tab under NetBIOS setting select Use NetBIOS setting from DHCP Server Click OK twice and click Close Enter the IP Address of a WINS Server Manually Use this method to connect to a WINS server in the same workgroup or domain that is not already set up on the host To enter the IP address of a WINS server manually 1 N OF A Q In the virtual machine right click My Network Places and choose Properties For Windows Vista open the Network and Sharing Center and click the View Status link for the connection that uses the virtual network adapter In the Network Connections window right click the virtual network adapter and choose Properties For Windows Vista in the Connection Status window click Properties and click Continue when prompted for permission In the Properties dialog box select Internet Protocol TCP IP and click Properties In the TCP IP Properties dialog box click Advanced On the WINS tab click Add In the TCP IP WINS Server dialog box enter the IP address for the WINS server in the WINS server field and click OK The IP address of the WINS server appears in the WINS addresses list on the WINS tab VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking 7 Repeat Step 5 and Step 6 for each WIN
501. rtual machine 3 but do not power it on Use the virtual machine settings editor to add a virtual network adapter See Changing a Networking Configuration on page 267 Connect the second adapter to Custom vmnet2 Use the virtual machine settings editor to add a second virtual network adapter Connect the adapter to Custom vmnet3 4 Configure network settings for the fourth virtual machine a b c Open virtual machine 4 but do not power it on Use the virtual machine settings editor to add a virtual network adapter See Changing a Networking Configuration on page 267 Connect the second adapter to Custom vmnet3 5 Determine the network addresses used for vmnet2 and vmnet3 VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network m On Windows hosts open a command prompt and run ipconfig all Note the network addresses used by each virtual adapter m On Linux hosts open a terminal and run ifconfig Note the network addresses used by each virtual switch 6 Power on each virtual machine in turn and install the appropriate guest operating system 7 Ona Windows host you are not required to configure network addresses manually You can instead use Workstation s DHCP server a From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt DHCP b Add vmnet2 and vmnet3 to the list of virtual networks served by the virtual DHCP server 8 Configure the networking in each guest operatin
502. rtual machines For the most recent list of supported guest operating systems including detailed information about the specific operating system versions VMware Inc Appendix B Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger service packs and updates supported see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide at http pubs vmware com guestnotes This guide also provides notes on installing the most common guest operating systems NOTE Operating systems that are not listed are not supported for debugging in a virtual machine The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger supports the following Windows 32 bit Windows 64 bit Linux 32 bit and Linux 64 bit guest operating systems Table B 2 Windows and Linux Guest Operating Systems Processor Type Operating System Edition Windows 32 bit Windows Vista all editions except Vista Home Edition which cannot be run in a virtual machine due to Microsoft licensing restrictions Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and R2 Windows XP Professional and Home Edition Windows 2000 Professional Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 64 bit Windows Vista x64 Edition 3 D effects not yet supported Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Windows XP Professional x64 Linux 32 and 64 bit Red Hat Linux 8 and 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Enterprise Server Workstation 4 and 5 Ubuntu Linux 6 10 and 6 06 SUSE Linux 10 SUSE Linux
503. s or a combination of those keys Table 21 4 provides the shortcut key values Table 21 4 Shortcut Key Values Modifier key Value No modifier 0x0 Alt 0x1 Ctrl 0x2 Shift 0x4 Ctrl Alt 0x3 Alt Shift 0x5 Ctrl Shift 0x6 Ctrl Alt Shift Ox7 When you list a key plus a modifier type the virtual key code for the key followed by a comma followed by the value for the modifier key or keys For example the value entry for Ctrl Shift F1 is 0x70 0x6 Keep the following limitations in mind when defining shortcut keys m Do not use the Pause key with the Ctrl key m If you use F12 you must use one or more modifier keys You cannot use F12 alone VMware Inc 411 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 412 m You cannot use combinations that include only the Shift Ctrl and Alt keys You can use these keys only as modifiers in combination with some other key Sample Skin File player title prefix Our Company lt lt player title suffix gt gt Environment player title useVMName FALSE player deviceBar toplevel TRUE player player player player player player deviceBar deviceBar deviceBar deviceBar deviceBar deviceBar floppy0 floppy0 floppy0 floppy0 floppy0 floppy0 buttonStyle icon buttonText First Floppy Drive shortcutKey 0x30 0x7 icon custom floppy ico tooltip Click to disconnect tooltipDisconnected Click to connect
504. s Host Use the virtual network settings editor to configure NAT on Windows host To edit the NAT configuration file see Custom NAT and DHCP Configuration on a Windows Host on page 296 To configure NAT on a Windows host 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings 2 Use the controls on the NAT tab to configure NAT m Stop and start the virtual NAT device by clicking the appropriate buttons m Toedit NAT settings for a virtual network choose the vmnet network from the drop down menu and click Edit VMware Inc 295 Workstation User s Manual m The NAT Settings dialog box appears x m Settings VMnet host VMnet8 Gateway IP address 168 110 2 Netmask UDP timeout 30 seconds Contig port Port Forwarding MV Active FTP DNS I Allow any OUI M Netbios NBNS timeout 2 seconds NBNS retries E NBDS timeout 3 seconds Cancel Help 3 Click the appropriate button to set up or change port forwarding or to specify DNS servers the virtual NAT device should use 4 Click OK to close the virtual network editor Custom NAT and DHCP Configuration on a Windows Host If you are an advanced user on a Windows host computer you can make custom configuration settings by editing the NAT and DHCP configuration files If your host operating system is installed on the C drive the configuration files for NAT and DHCP are in the following locations
505. s a member of the Windows Administrators group Make sure that Workstation is not running and that no virtual machines are running in the background Upgrade the host operating system to Windows Vista as described in the Microsoft documentation Run the Workstation 6 5 installer For more information see Upgrade Workstation on a Windows Host on page 53 Optional To upgrade the virtual machines use the Change Version wizard in Workstation 6 5 See Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 Upgrade Workstation on a Linux Host You can upgrade from Workstation version 4 5 or 6 0 x to version 6 5 by running the VMware Workstation 6 5 installation program Before you begin make sure that you have a Workstation 6 5 serial number You are prompted to enter the serial number after installation is complete the first time you VMware Inc 55 Workstation User s Manual start Workstation after the upgrade Also perform the tasks described in Prepare for the Upgrade on page 51 NOTE Starting with Workstation 5 Samba is no longer automatically configured when you run vmware config pl To upgrade Workstation on a Linux host 1 Determine whether you must uninstall the previous version of Workstation If you used the tar installer to install Workstation 4 5 or 6 0 x and you use the tar installer for version 6 5 you do not need to uninstall the older version Similarly if you used the
506. s are automatically assigned to virtual machines you can override the generated UUID value and assign a specific UUID The UUID is a 128 bit integer The 16 bytes of this value are separated by spaces except for a dash between the eighth and ninth hexadecimal pairs Following is an example of a UUID 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 aa bb cc dd ee ff To specify a UUID for a virtual machine 1 Power off the virtual machine 2 Open the configuration vmx file with a text editor 3 Search for the line that contains uuid bios The format of the line is uuid bios lt uuid_value gt with quotation marks around the parameter value Following is an example of the configuration setting uuid bios 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 aa bb cc dd ee ff 4 Replace the existing UUID value with the specific UUID value 5 Save and close the file 6 Power on the virtual machine The new UUID is used when the virtual machine boots Cloning a Virtual Machine This section provides instructions for creating and configuring clones of virtual machines A clone is a copy of an existing virtual machine The existing virtual machine is called the parent of the clone When the cloning operation is complete the clone becomes a separate virtual machine These are the main characteristics of a clone m Changes made to a clone do not affect the parent virtual machine Changes made to the parent virtual machine do not appear in a clone VMware Inc 201
507. s boot managers access to configuration files and other files they might need to boot operating systems For example LILO needs to read boot on a Linux partition to boot a non Linux operating system that might be on another drive To set permissions on Linux hosts 1 Make sure the master physical disk device or devices are readable and writable by the user who runs Workstation m Physical devices such as dev hda IDE physical disk and dev sdb SCSI physical disk belong to group id disk on most distributions If this is the case you can add VMware Workstation users to the disk group m Another option is to change the owner of the device Consider all the security issues involved in this option VMware Inc 2 Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives Grant VMware Workstation users access to all dev hd abcd physical devices that contain operating systems or boot managers Create a Virtual Machine That Uses a Physical Disk Use the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a new virtual machine that uses a physical disk rather than adding a physical disk to an existing virtual machine Before you begin complete the tasks described in Prerequisites for Using a Physical Disk on page 222 To create a virtual machine that uses a physical disk 1 VMware Inc Use the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a virtual machine that uses a physical disk Follow the instructions in Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Cu
508. s cannot modify these scripts When scripts run they must write the appropriate values to the StdOut file Output to the StdOut file might be up to 4096 bytes long VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player Place any scripts you want to use for a package in the ACE Resources directory in the virtual machine directory Do not place them in a subdirectory of the ACE Resources directory If the scripts need any additional resource files place those files in the main ACE Resources directory Make sure the script uses relative paths to reference those resources Scripts can also write messages to the StdErr file Output to the StdErr file may be up to 4096 bytes long Any messages generated on the StdErr file are captured in the log file on the end user s machine at the following location lt UserAppData gt VMware VMware ACE lt package_name gt Virtual Machines lt VM_name gt vmware Log The exit code of a script indicates whether the script succeeded or failed Table 21 1 describes the environment variables set in the script execution environment Table 21 1 Environment Variables Variable Description VMWARE_MASTER_ID The ID of the ACE enabled virtual machine ACE master VMWARE_PACKAGE ID The ID of the package the virtual machine was instantiated from VMWARE_INSTANCE_ID A Boolean value that is set to TRUE the first time the virtual machine is powered on Otherwise it is set to F
509. s command to load the ppdev module insmod ppdev If you continue to see problems it is possible that the Lp module is loaded If it is the virtual machine cannot use the parallel port correctly If the Lp module is loaded run this command as the root user to remove it rmmod Lp Verify that the line referring to the 1p module in the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file is removed or commented out by inserting a hash character at the beginning of the line VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices The name of the configuration file depends on the Linux distribution you are using When you reboot the host after removing this line the configuration file no longer starts the 1p module To ensure that the proper modules for the parallel port are loaded at boot time add this line to the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Configure Parallel Poris for Linux 2 6 x Kernels The 2 6 x kernels that support parallel ports use the modprobe lt modulename gt and modprobe parport_pc modules Workstation requires that the parallel port PC style hardware option CONFIG_PARPORT_PC be built and loaded as a kernel module That is it must be set to m To configure parallel ports for Linux 2 6 x kernels 1 VMware Inc Determine whether the modprobe lt modulename gt and modprobe parport_pc modules are installed and loaded on your system by running the Lsmod command as the r
510. s configuration the virtual machine cannot connect to the Internet Figure 15 3 Host Only Networking Setup virtual network adapter DHCP server OOS RRR ROR virtual network switch virtual machine host network adapter How to Set Up Host Only Networking A host only network is set up automatically if you select the Custom setup in the New Virtual Machine wizard and select Use host only networking Set Up Requirements for IP Addresses If you use host only networking your virtual machine and the host virtual adapter are connected to a private Ethernet network Addresses on this network are provided by the VMware DHCP server Routing and Connection Sharing If you install the proper routing or proxy software on your host computer you can establish a connection between the host virtual network adapter and a physical network adapter on the host computer This allows you for example to connect the virtual machine to a Token Ring or other non Ethernet network On a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host computer you can use host only networking in combination with the Internet connection sharing feature in Windows to allow a virtual machine to use the host s dial up networking adapter or other connection to the Internet See your Windows documentation for details on configuring Internet connection sharing VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network Example of a Custom Networ
511. s created with other VMware products that are compatible with version 4 must be upgraded to at least Workstation version 5 virtual machines before you can clone them See Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 To use the Clone Virtual Machine wizard 1 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 2 Choose VM gt Clone to open the Clone Virtual Machine wizard 3 On the Welcome page click Next VMware Inc Chapter 11 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines 4 On the Clone Source page select the state of the parent from which you want to create a clone and click Next You can choose to create a clone from the parent s current state or from any existing snapshot of the parent If you select the current state Workstation creates a snapshot of the virtual machine before cloning it The wizard does not allow you to clone from the current state when template mode is enabled 5 Onthe Clone Type page specify whether you want to create a linked clone or a full clone and click Next 6 Onthe Name of the New Virtual Machine page enter a name and a path for the cloned virtual machine and click Finish The default name and path are based on the original virtual machine name and location The Clone Virtual Machine wizard displays a status page A full clone can take many minutes to create depending on the size of the virtual disk that is being duplicated 7 Click Done to exit the
512. s hosts this option is deselected by default m On Linux hosts with IDE drives the default setting depends on whether the ide scsi module is loaded in your kernel The ide scsi module must be loaded or you must be using a physical SCSI drive to connect directly to the DVD or CD drive If you run more than one virtual machine at a time and if their CD drives are in legacy emulation mode start the virtual machines with their CD drives disconnected This ensures that multiple virtual machines are not connected to the CD drive at the same time Add Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine You can add up to two floppy drives to a virtual machine A virtual floppy drive can connect to a physical floppy drive on the host computer to an existing floppy image file or to a blank floppy image file To add a floppy drive to a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings 2 3 4 On the Hardware tab click Add 5 On the Hardware Type page select Floppy Drive and click Next 6 Follow the instructions to complete the wizard VMware Inc 229 Workstation User s Manual 230 7 Optional If you are adding a second floppy drive to the virtual machine enable this second floppy drive in the virtual machine BIOS as follows a Boot the virtual machine and as it boots click in the virtual machine window and press F2 to enter the BIOS setup utility b Onthe main scre
513. s of a program to ensure that each installation begins from an identical baseline Figure 10 2 Snapshots as Restoration Points in a Process Tree sii Windows IE base operating system Foxfire base baseline Q IE base1 You Are Here Foxfire base1 IE base2 Le Foxfire base2 Workstation supports more than 100 snapshots for each branch in a process tree Snapshot Relationships The relationship between snapshots is like a parent child relationship m Ina linear process each snapshot has one parent and one child except for the last snapshot which has no children m Ina process tree each snapshot has one parent but one snapshot can have more than one child Many snapshots have no children The parent snapshot of a virtual machine is the snapshot on which the current state the You Are Here position in Figure 10 3 is based After you take a snapshot that stored VMware Inc Chapter 10 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine state is the parent snapshot of the virtual machine If you revert or go to an earlier snapshot the earlier snapshot becomes the parent snapshot of the virtual machine Figure 10 3 Parent Child Relationship Between Snapshots a Snapshots 2 3 and 4 i are all children of Snapshot1 Windows XP Snapshot 1 Snapshot 2 Pro Snapshot 3 Snapshot 4 is the parent of the You Are Here position and therefore the parent Snapshot 4 of the virtual machine
514. s the virtual machine is allowed to access Earlier VMware products used the extension dsk for virtual disk files vmdk Continued lt vmname gt s lt gt vmdk If you specified that the files can grow the filenames include an s in the file number for example Windows XP Professional s001 vmdk If you specified that the virtual disk is split into 2GB chunks the number of vmdk files depends on the size of the virtual disk As data is added to a virtual disk the vmdk files grow to a maximum of 2GB each lt vmname gt f lt gt vmdk If the disk space was allocated when the disk was created the names include an f instead of an s for example Windows XP Professional f001 vmdk lt vmname gt lt disk gt lt gt vmdk If the virtual machine has one or more snapshots some files are redo log files They store changes made to a virtual disk while the virtual machine is running The indicates a unique suffix added by VMware Workstation to avoid duplicate file names vmem lt uuid gt vmem The virtual machine s paging file which backs up the guest main memory on the host file system This file exists only when the virtual machine is running or if the virtual machine fails lt snapshot_name_number gt vmem Each snapshot of a virtual machine that is powered on has an associated vmenm file which contains the guest s main memory saved as part of the snapshot V
515. s to Server Creating a Package 426 After you create an ACE enabled virtual machine and configure policies devices and deployment settings use the New Package wizard to create a package to deploy instances to users NOTE To create a Pocket ACE package for distribution on portable devices use the Pocket ACE Package wizard rather than the New Package wizard See Create a Pocket ACE Package on page 436 For packages that you plan to deploy to Windows hosts you can specify that the package is to be distributed through a network image or through DVDs or CDs For DVD and CD distribution the package is divided into files that fit on standard discs Overview of Package Creation and Validation Depending on whether you want to deploy anew ACE instance or update an installed one you can create any of the following types of packages m Full package Includes an installer and the additional files needed to install an ACE package and the VMware Player application that runs the ACE instance A full package allows you to create a completely new ACE instance V CAUTION If you replace an existing ACE instance by supplying a new full package end users lose any data or custom settings stored in it VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances Policy update package or Server update package Includes just the policy related files m For standalone ACE enabled virtual machines the option is Policy Update m For
516. s to the vmnet device For example if you are using bridged networking you must have access to dev vmnet To grant selected other users read and write access to the vmnet device you can create a new group add the appropriate users to the group and grant that group read and write access to the appropriate device You must make these changes on the host operating system as root su For example you can enter the following commands chgrp lt newgroup gt dev vmnetO chmod g rw dev vmnetO lt newgroup gt is the group that should have the ability to set vmnet0 to promiscuous mode For all users to be able to set the virtual network adapter dev vmnet0 in the example to promiscuous mode run the following command on the host operating system as root chmod a rw dev vmnet Using NAT 292 NAT provides a way for virtual machines to use most client applications over almost any type of network connection available to the host The only requirement is that the network connection must support TCP IP NAT is useful when you have a limited supply of IP addresses or are connected to the network through a non Ethernet network adapter NAT works by translating addresses of virtual machines in a private vmnet network to that of the host machine When a virtual machine sends a request to access a network resource it appears to the network resource as if the request is coming from the host machine VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced
517. s were assigned when the virtual machine was created in ESX Server You can see the number of processors in the virtual machine s summary view or by using the virtual machine settings editor To use a virtual machine that has more than two virtual processors assigned you must change the number of processors before powering it on VMware Inc Chapter 18 Connecting Devices To use a virtual machine that originally had more than two virtual processors 1 2 3 4 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab select Processors and note that Number of Processors is set to Other x where x is the number of processors originally assigned in ESX Server Workstation preserves this original configuration setting for the number of processors even though two is the maximum number of processors supported You must change this setting to one or two processors before you can power on the virtual machine in Workstation After you commit a change to this setting the original setting for number of processors is discarded and no longer appears as an option in the virtual machine settings editor Change the Number of processors setting to One or Two and click OK 349 Workstation User s Manual 350 VMware Inc Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts You can use configuration options for tasks like restricting the operations a
518. s whether the team or virtual machine is powered off powered on or suspended A brown rather than blue virtual machine icon indicates that the virtual machine is a Workstation 4 virtual machine Right click commands Right click on a Favorites icon to display a menu of commands you can use for that virtual machine or team You can click elsewhere in the Favorites list that is not on a virtual machine or team to display a context menu from which you can choose to create a new virtual machine team or folder You can also open an existing virtual machine team Microsoft Virtual PC or Virtual Server virtual machine StorageCraft or Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery system image Use Folders for Organizing Favorites You can organize favorites into folders and nest folders inside other folders To use folders for organizing favorites 1 2 3 4 Right click Favorites or any item in the Favorites list and choose New Folder Complete the New Folder dialog box that appears Optional Drag and drop folders to place one inside another Drag and drop Favorites items in the desired folder Add Virtual Machines and Teams to the Favorites List Virtual machines and teams are automatically added to the Favorites list when you complete the New Virtual Machine wizard You can also add them manually To add virtual machines and teams to the Favorites list 1 VMware Inc Choose File gt Open and browse to the location of the
519. sability m The customizable interface lets you customize the behavior and look and feel for users m The flexible computing environment lets users revert to a previous state within seconds and can work online or when disconnected from the enterprise network VMware ACE Terminology The following terms are used frequently in the chapters describing VMware ACE features 368 VMware Inc Chapter 20 Learning the Basics of ACE ACE enabled virtual machine A virtual machine template that the ACE administrator creates The ACE enabled virtual machine can be configured with various policies devices and deployment settings and then used as the basis for creating any number of packages to be sent to ACE users ACE instance The virtual machine that ACE administrators create associate with virtual rights management VRM policies and package for deployment to users An ACE instance that is managed by an ACE Management Server is a managed ACE instance An ACE instance that is not managed by an ACE Management Server is a standalone ACE instance Optional ACE Management Server The ACE Management Server enables you to manage ACE instances to publish policy changes to dynamically update those instances and to test and deploy packages more easily Adds new integration with Active Directory setups and provides secure Active Directory and LDAP integration with role based secure SSL communication For more information see the VMwa
520. se broadcast packets must go to the extra adapters On Windows networks browsing your network might be slower than usual And in some cases these adapters interact with the host computer s networking configuration in undesirable ways VMware Inc 275 Workstation User s Manual Enable or Disable a Host Virtual Adapter To enable or disable a host virtual adapter 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings 2 Click the Host Virtual Adapters tab 3 Select the adapter you want to enable or disable 4 Click Disable or Enable as appropriate 5 Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual network editor Add or Remove a Host Virtual Adapter You can add a virtual network and specify which virtual or physical adapter to associate with it By default the following virtual network mappings are used m The vmnet0 virtual network uses the bridged network type m The vmnetl virtual network uses the host only network type m The vmnet8 virtual network uses the NAT network type To add or remove a host virtual adapter 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings 2 Click the Host Virtual Adapters tab 3 To add an adapter do the following a Click Add b Inthe Add Network Adapter dialog box choose the virtual network on which you want to use the adapter and click OK 4 To remove an adapter select the adapter you want to remove and click Remove 5 Click O
521. se input m Programming the CMOS external timer This feature can be useful for test and development scenarios VMware Inc 365 Workstation User s Manual 366 VMware Inc Learning the Basics of ACE This chapter provides an overview of how to use Workstation to create and deploy virtual machines for end users This chapter includes the following topics Benefits of Using VMware ACE on page 367 m Network and Disk Space Requirements for the Administrative Workstation on page 369 m Overview of Creating and Deploying ACE Packages on page 370 Overview of the ACE User Interface on page 371 m Troubleshooting Users Problems on page 372 Benefits of Using VMware ACE VMware ACE is a software solution that enables organizations to deploy and manage secure platform independent virtual machines that end users can use on their work PC personal computer or even a portable USB media device End users can be either connected to or disconnected from the enterprise network VMware ACE enables safe access to enterprise resources from assured computing environments These isolated PC environments run on top of existing PCs The assured computing environment ACE contains an operating system enterprise applications and preconfigured security settings With virtual rights management built in copy protection controls and automatic encryption VMware ACE helps prevent theft tampering and unauthorized copying o
522. se the parport parport_pc and vmppuser modules Workstation requires that the parallel port PC style hardware option CONFIG_PARPORT_PC be built and loaded as a kernel module That is it must be set to m Workstation is unable to use parallel port devices if CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is built directly compiled into the kernel This limitation exists because CONFIG_PARPORT_PC does not correctly export its symbols The vmppuser module supplied by Workstation gives virtual machines user level access to the parallel port To configure parallel ports for Linux 2 2 x kernels 1 Determine whether the parport parport_pc and vmppuser modules are installed and running on your system by running the 1smod command as the root user These three modules are included in the listing of running modules You can also look at the proc modules file for the list 2 To load the proper modules run this command insmod lt modulename gt 3 If none of the listed parallel port modules is loaded use this command insmod parport_pc This command inserts the three modules needed for a parallel port If you continue to see problems it is possible that the 1p module is running If it is the virtual machine cannot use the parallel port correctly 4 Ifthe Lp module is loaded run this command as the root user to remove it rmmod Lp 5 Verify that the line referring to the 1p module in the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file is removed or commented out by
523. server you can specify which language you want to use for the keyboard that VNC clients use By default the US101 keyboard map U S English is used Before you begin determine the location of the keymap file you want to use Default keymap files are included in the Workstation installation directory m On Windows hosts this directory is in C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware vnckeymap m On Linux hosts this directory is in usr lib vmware vnckeymap If the keymap file you want to use is in another location determine the path to the file VMware Inc 325 Workstation User s Manual 326 To specify a language keyboard map for VNC clients 1 Set the virtual machine to act as a VNC server See Configure a Virtual Machine as a VNC Server on page 167 Use a text editor to open the configuration file vmx file for the virtual machine and add the following lines m RemoteDisplay vnc enabled TRUE m RemoteDispLay vnc port lt port number gt where lt port number gt is the port number you want to use Add one of the following properties to the configuration file m To use the default keymap file included in the Workstation installation directory set the following property RemoteDispLay vnc keyMap lt xx gt where lt xx gt is the code for the language you want to use such as jp for Japanese Following is a list of language codes de German de ch German Switzerland
524. siderations apply to display resizing Update VMware Tools to version 6 0 or higher in the guest for the display resizing options to work Before you can use the Autofit Guest and Fit Guest Now options VMware Tools must be running Solaris 10 guests must be running an Xorg X server and JDS Gnome VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines Working with Nonstandard Resolutions A guest operating system and its applications might react unexpectedly when the Workstation console size is not a standard VESA resolution 640x480 800x600 1024x768 and so on For example the Autofit Guest and Fit Guest Now commands allow your guest operating system screen resolution to be set smaller than 640x480 but some installers do not run at resolutions smaller than 640x480 Programs might refuse to run Error messages might include such phrases as VGA Required to Install or You must have VGA to install Use one of the following strategies to work around this problem with nonstandard resolutions m If your host computer s screen resolution is high enough you can enlarge the window and choose Fit Guest Now m If your host computer s screen resolution does not allow you to enlarge the Workstation console sufficiently you can manually set the guest operating system s screen resolution to 640x480 or larger Install New Software in a Virtual Machine Installing new software in a virtual machine is like installi
525. sidered to have two or more logical processors m A multiprocessor host with two or more physical CPUs m Asingle processor host with a multicore CPU m Asingle processor host with hyperthreading enabled NOTE On hyperthreaded uniprocessor hosts performance of virtual machines with virtual SMP might be subpar Guests with more than two virtual processors are not supported in Workstation However you can power on and run multiple dual processor virtual machines concurrently The number of virtual processors for a given virtual machine is displayed in the summary view of the virtual machine To use two way virtual symmetric multiprocessing Depending on whether you are creating a new virtual machine or configuring an existing one do one of the following m For anew virtual machine choose the custom configuration in the New Virtual Machine wizard and when you come to the Processor Configuration page specify the number m For an existing virtual machine choose VM gt Settings and on the Hardware tab select Processors and specify the number Use a Virtual Machine That Originally Had More Than Two Virtual Processors You can use Workstation 6 5 or higher running on a multiprocessor host machine to open a virtual machine created in VMware ESX Server that has one or more virtual processors You cannot use Workstation however to power on a virtual machine that has more than two virtual processors assigned even if more processor
526. sions The sections that follow provide details about how to enable this feature and use it Physical and Virtual Hardware Requirements 234 Following is a list of requirements for and limitations of this feature m Host CPUs For optimum performance use a computer with an Intel P4 processor or equivalent when using this feature If you use the record replay feature on a host computer that does not have an Intel P4 processor when you enable the record replay feature and power on the virtual machine a message appears informing you that recording is not supported on your processor Supported processors include Pentium 4 Intel Core 2 Greyhound Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem and Penryn Harpertown Other processors might operate more slowly during recording and replaying m Virtual machine version Only Workstation 5 6 and 6 5 virtual machines can be recorded m Supported operating systems You can use the record replay feature only on 32 bit versions of the following guest operating systems m Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista m Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 m SUSE Linux 9 3 and 10 x m Unsupported operating systems You cannot use the record replay feature on 64 bit versions of the guest operating system If you attempt to enable the record replay feature on an unsupported operating system the virtual machine will not power on until you disable record replay In addition SMP and paravirtualizatio
527. sk space for the ACE instance The ACE package must be accessible to the Linux user machines for installation If this is the first installation of an ACE instance on the user machine a root user must run the installation Only a root user can install and uninstall VMware Player If the ACE instance includes a host policy a root user must run the installation A host policy is a host network access policy or a policy that restricts which virtual machines can run ona host See Setting Network Access Policies on page 384 and Control Which ACE Instances Run on a Host on page 401 Only one set of host policies can be deployed to a particular host If a package contains host policies and the host already contains host policies from another package installation of the second package fails To install an ACE instance on a single Linux host 1 2 Open a terminal window and change to the package directory Enter the following command vmware install pl When prompted select the directory in which you want to install the ACE instance Install an ACE Package Silently on Multiple Linux Hosts You can silently install an ACE instance on many computers End users are not prompted for information during the installation process 446 VMware Inc Chapter 24 Installing ACE Instances To install the ACE instance on multiple Linux hosts 1 On the host computer open a terminal window 2 Enter the following command tmp lt path_
528. snapshot you want to play and click Replay 239 Workstation User s Manual If you stop the recording before it is finished replaying and then click the Play button again the recording starts from its beginning not from the point where you clicked Go Live A snapshot of a recording is shown in Figure 10 4 Snapshot Manager on a Windows Host on page 193 5 In the dialog box that appears confirm that you want to start replaying the recording 6 To suspend the replay click the Pause button in the replay control dialog box The button toggles to a Play button so that you can click it again to resume playing the recording 7 Optional To adjust the speed of a playback click the replay speed control buttons This control is shown in Figure 13 2 Keep in mind that the fastest speed for replay is real time If you press the right arrow key when the recording is slowed down by only 10 microseconds then it will speed up by only 10 microseconds 8 Optional To make a trace file of events that occurred during recording see Creating an Execution Trace File of a Recording on page 240 9 Optional To stop replaying the recording before it finishes playing click the Go Live button to stop the replay and resume interacting with the virtual machine Browsing a Recording The length of a recording can vary from a few minutes to several hours When the recording is several hours long to access a specific event within the recor
529. ss and might cause you to lose substantial time Use preview mode to test whether instance customization runs unattended For example verify that a valid Windows product ID is used so that no dialog box prompts for the product ID during the Mini Setup process 429 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 430 If you configured automatic login use preview mode to verify that automatic login works correctly If it fails instance customization fails Use the New Package Wizard The New Package wizard creates an executable file that contains an ACE enabled virtual machine its policies deployment settings scripts and a copy of VMware Player You can easily deploy and install the package on end user s machines Before you begin verify that the packaging prerequisites are satisfied See Prerequisites for Using the Packaging Wizards on page 428 To use the New Package wizard 1 2 Open the ACE enabled virtual machine to use as the basis for the package Make sure the virtual machine is powered off rather than suspended When you exit preview mode by default VMware Player suspends the virtual machine If necessary use Workstation to power off the virtual machine Choose VM gt ACE gt New Package Complete the New Package wizard Optional If you are prompted to select a package distribution format and you select Multiple folders for creating DVDs or CDs write down the disc label prefix you specify When you later use
530. ssword Randomly generated security tokens cannot be used as passwords For example you cannot use an RSA security token Determine the following information to use for the VPN client profile the company s group and password information and the name of the VPN server to contact to establish a secure connection Determine the name of the domain that you plan to add the ACE instance to Determine the user name and password for an account that has permission to add computers to the domain To set up a remote domain join 1 VMware Inc In the guest operating system of the ACE enabled virtual machine install a VPN client that supports a command line interface Use the VPN client software to configure a profile for this client The profile in the VPN client contains a company s group and password information and determines which server to contact to establish a secure connection Write a bat script that allows remote execution during the instance customization process Following is an example of a bat script for a Cisco VPN client net start Cisco Systems Inc VPN Service C Program Files Cisco Systems VPN Client vpnclient exe connect lt profile_name gt user lt vpn_user_name gt pwd 1 gt gt vpnlogs txt This example consists of two lines The command in the first line starts the Cisco VPN clients background service The command in the second line connects to the Cisco VPN using a command line interface It s
531. ssword field when the script executes Click OK to save the settings To create a package with these settings see Creating a Package on page 426 Custom EULA Settings You can provide a custom End user license agreement EULA that appears when an ACE instance is activated The user must see and accept before the instance can run for the first time The custom EULA must be a text file located in the ACE Resources directory for the ACE enabled virtual machine The file can use the following formats For Windows hosts use a txt or rtf file For Linux hosts use a txt file VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances If you plan to deploy the package to both Windows and Linux computers use a txt file To specify whether to deploy to Windows hosts Linux hosts or both use the Deployment Platform setting in the deployment settings editor Deployment Platform Settings By default ACE packages are created for Windows hosts Change this setting to deploy to Linux or both Linux and Windows hosts ACE Resources Directory The ACE Resources directory is a subdirectory of the ACE enabled virtual machine s directory All files placed in this directory are copied into the ACE package so that they can be used in end users virtual machines Place the following types of files in the ACE Resources directory Authentication scripts See Create and Deploy an Authentication Script on page 377 Power on a
532. st the default location is C Documents and Settings lt username gt Local Settings Temp You can use the command cd temp to locate the Local Settings folder which is hidden by default To see its contents open My Computer go to Tools gt Folder Options click the View tab and select Show Hidden Files and Folders To run the support script on a Linux host 1 2 Open a terminal window Run the support script as the user who is running the virtual machine vm support If you are not running the script as root the script displays messages indicating that it cannot collect some information This is normal If the VMware support team needs that information a support representative will ask you to run the script again as root The script creates a compressed tgz file in the user s home directory Include that output file with your support request If you are reporting a problem you encountered while installing VMware Workstation you should also include your installation log file VMware Inc Preface VMware Education Services VMware courses offer extensive hands on labs case study examples and course materials designed to be used as on the job reference tools For more information about VMware Education Services go to http mylearn1 vmware com mgrreg index cfm VMware Inc 23 Introduction and System Requirements This chapter provides an introduction to Workstation and describes the system requirements for operati
533. st 286 switch 259 token ring 263 two host only networks 286 virtual DHCP server 263 264 virtual Ethernet adapter 260 virtual network editor 270 276 279 500 virtual switch 259 virtualizing in a team 245 network access policies 384 network adapters creating for team networks 256 network address translation See NAT network image package delivery 430 New Package wizard 426 New Virtual Machine wizard 75 92 94 213 496 NFS ports 297 Novell NetWare supported guest operating systems 37 VMware Tools for 116 Novell Open Enterprise Server supported guest operating systems 37 NVRAM 100 O offline usage of ACE instances policy 400 Open Enterprise Server 37 open virtual machine format ovf and ova files 142 operating system 32 bit Windows host 28 64 bit Windows host 29 FreeBSD 32 bit guest 37 FreeBSD 64 bit guest 37 guest 494 host defined 495 installing guest 96 Linux 32 bit guest 37 Linux 32 bit host 30 Linux 64 bit guest 37 Linux 64 bit host 31 MS DOS guest 36 Solaris 32 bit guest 37 Solaris 64 bit guest 37 support for 64 bit guest 38 Windows 32 bit guest 36 Windows 64 bit 36 Opteron processor 26 38 optical drive supported in host 27 Options tab virtual machine settings editor 80 VMware Tools 122 ovf and ova files 142 P P2V physical to virtual conversion 137 package burning files onto discs 430 changing lifetime setting 414 creating 426 creating multiple 426 creation pr
534. st Operating Systems Processor Type Linux 32 bit Operating System Edition Mandriva Linux 2006 and 2007 Mandrake Linux Novell Linux Desktop Red Hat Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Enterprise Server and Workstation SUSE Linux openSUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Enterprise Desktop Desktop Server Sun Java Desktop System JDS Turbolinux Server Enterprise Server Workstation Desktop Ubuntu Linux Linux 64 Bit Mandriva Linux 2006 and 2007 Mandriva Linux 2006 and 2007 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Enterprise Server and Workstation SUSE Linux openSUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Enterprise Desktop Desktop Server Turbolinux Server Ubuntu Linux Novell NetWare 32 Bit NetWare Novell Open Enterprise Server 32 Bit Open Enterprise Server 32 bit FreeBSD 32 Bit FreeBSD 32 bit Note If you use SCSI virtual disks larger than 2GB with FreeBSD 4 0 4 3 the guest operating system does not boot To work around this issue see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide FreeBSD 64 Bit FreeBSD 64 bit Sun Solaris 32 Bit Solaris x86 32 bit Sun Solaris 64 Bit Solaris x86 64 bit VMware Inc 37 Workstation User s Manual For details about operating systems that are newly added for this beta release see the Workstation 6 5 release notes See the VMware G
535. st and then add them back to the list Besides using the VMware Tools control panel to connect or disconnect a device you can right click the device icon in the status bar of the virtual machine window See Use Removable Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 166 Scripts Tab Settings From the Scripts tab of the VMware Tools control panel you can edit disable or run scripts that help automate guest operating system operations when you change the virtual machine s power state From this tab you can also specify the location of custom scripts for the Suspend Resume Power On Power Off and Reset buttons On most guest operating systems if VMware Tools is installed and if you configure a virtual machine s power controls to use the guest options one or more default scripts run on the guest whenever you change the power state of the virtual machine For example if you use the virtual machine settings editor choose VM gt Settings gt Options gt Power and set the Power Off control to use Shutdown Guest then the poweroff vm default script runs when you click the Power Off button in the Workstation toolbar This script causes the guest operating system to shut down gracefully VMware Inc Chapter 6 Installing and Using VMware Tools Scripts can be run on most guest operating systems but not on Windows 95 NetWare and FreeBSD guests See Run or Disable a Script on page 130 Shared Folders Tab Information T
536. st operating system m You cannot configure the virtual machine with the virtual machine settings editor and neither can you upgrade VMware Tools m Remote display does not work well if you are also using the 3 D feature This feature is described in Support for Direct3D Graphics on page 308 To use a VNC client to connect to a virtual machine 1 On a local or remote computer start a VNC client You can use any VNC client but not a Java viewer in a browser If you need to download and install a VNC client one of the many Web sites where you can buy or get one for free is the RealVNC Web site Make sure the client is set for hextile encoding For example if you use RealVNC Viewer under the Preferred Encoding option select Hextile Make sure the client is set to use all colors For example if you use RealVNC Viewer under the Colour Level option select Full all available colours When prompted for the VNC server name enter the name or IP address of the host computer and the port number Use the format lt machine_name gt lt port_number gt If a password is required enter one when prompted Set Up Appliance View for a Virtual Machine If you want a virtual machine to function as an appliance such as a Web server with a browser based interface set the virtual machine to display its appliance view when starting up rather than the operating system console VMware Inc 169 Workstation User s
537. start a process like this Hosts with Different Hardware The guest operating system might not work correctly if you move a virtual machine to a host with significant hardware differences such as from a 64 bit host to a 32 bit host or from a multiprocessor host to a uniprocessor host This section provides details Moving Between 64 Bit and 32 Bit Hosts You can move a virtual machine from a 32 bit host to a 64 bit host but not from a 64 bit host to a 32 bit host NOTE Workstation supports 64 bit guest operating systems only in Workstation versions 5 5 and later and only on host machines with supported processors When you power on a virtual machine with a 64 bit guest operating system Workstation performs an internal check If the host CPU is not a supported 64 bit processor you cannot power on the virtual machine For the list of processors Workstation supports for 64 bit guest operating systems see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the Help menu Moving Between Multiprocessor and Uniprocessor Hosts For all supported configurations of 32 bit and 64 bit host and guest operating systems running on multiprocessor host machines versions 5 5 and later of Workstation support two way virtual symmetric multiprocessing SMP This enables you to assign two virtual processors to a virtual machine This is supported only for host machines with at least two logical processors See Use Two Way Virtual Symmetr
538. start the virtual machine You must select this option or Always enabled to enable or disable specific folders in the Folders section Enable Specific Shared Folders for a Virtual Machine To enable specific shared folders for a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off 2 Choose VM gt Settings gt Options gt Shared Folders 3 Inthe Folders list for the virtual machine select the check box next to the name of the shared folder that you want to enable 4 Optional To make the shared folder read only select the shared folder and click Properties select the read only check box and click OK VMware Inc Chapter 9 Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest Viewing a Shared Folder Viewing shared folders varies based on the guest operating system The following sections describe viewing shared folders in Windows Solaris and Linux guests You can use shared folders to share any type of files CAUTION Donot opena file ina shared folder from more than one application at a time V For example do not open the same file using an application on the host operating system and another application in the guest operating system If one of the applications writes to the file data corruption can occur View and Map Shared Folders in a Windows Guest In a Windows guest operating system you can view shared folders using desktop icons NOTE If your gues
539. station oj x File Edt view vM Team Windows Help IL Me E ERIC SEI BRG Sidebar Powered On a Windows 2000 Professione E Windows XP Professional Favorites E Team Windows Ms E Red Hat 3 53 Team QA YMs 8 Clone of Red Hat 3 amp Mixed version team E Red Hat Linux B Windows VMs Windows 2000 Profess E Vista vM ED Windows XP Professior E Windows XP Professional E Eh Pina af atat su Windows XP Professional 3 sa Vista VM Su Red Hat Linux MyAppliance 1 0 generic browser appliance N Ready You can press Open Browser button to start using this G appliance 2 Open Browser BeeBoo Pa The appliance view is available only for virtual machines that you designate as appliances See Set Up Appliance View for a Virtual Machine on page 169 Displaying Multiple Virtual Machines at the Same Time To simultaneously view more than one virtual machine when they are not all on the same team open multiple Workstation windows and launch one or more virtual machines in each Workstation window Use a team to coordinate and use multiple virtual machines within a single console window See Summary and Console Views for Teams and Their Virtual Machines on page 249 Toolbar Buttons The toolbar area at the top of the VMware Workstation window contains buttons you can click to power your virtual mac
540. station from a Windows Host Use the Windows Control Panel to uninstall Workstation Workstation licenses preference settings and virtual machines are not removed but virtual network settings are removed To uninstall Workstation from a Windows host Depending on which version of Windows you have do one of the following VMware Inc Chapter 2 Installing VMware Workstation On Windows Vista hosts go to Start gt Control Panel gt Programs gt Programs and Features gt Uninstall a program and uninstall VMware Workstation On other Windows hosts use the Add Remove Programs control panel and remove VMware Workstation Install Workstation on a Linux Host Before you begin read the following notes and make adjustments to your host system Make sure you have the items listed in Installation Prerequisites on page 39 If you have a previous tar installation delete the previous vmware distrib directory before installing from a tar file again The location of this directory depends on where you placed it when you did the previous installation Often it is placed in tmp vmware distrib The real time clock function must be compiled into your Linux kernel Workstation for Linux requires that the parallel port PC style hardware option CONFIG_PARPORT_PC be built and loaded as a kernel module that is it must be set to m when the kernel is compiled To use the Workstation Help system you must have a Web browser instal
541. stom Setup on page 94 On the Select a Disk page of the wizard select Use a physical disk and choose to use individual partitions or the entire disk If you use individual partitions only the partitions you select are accessible to the virtual machine The other partitions might be visible to the guest operating system but you cannot mount access or format them Optional To specify a device node for the virtual disk or exclude disks from snapshots do the following a Select the virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings b On the Hardware tab select the physical disk and click Advanced c To change the device node select from the Virtual device node list d To exclude disks from snapshots select Independent for the mode and choose one of the following options m Persistent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk m Nonpersistent Changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to a snapshot See Information Captured by Snapshots on page 191 Install the guest operating system on the physical disk For more information about supported operating systems see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide This guide is available from the Workstation Help menu 225 Workstation User s Manual Add a Physical Disk to an Existing Virtual Machine Use the virtual machine settings editor rather than the New Virtual Machine wizard to add a physical disk to an existing v
542. system from the ISO file Upgrade a Guest Operating System When you use the New Virtual Machine wizard to create a virtual machine one of the settings you specify is the guest operating system type and version Workstation chooses configuration defaults based on the guest type and version you choose If you upgrade a guest operating system to a newer version also update the guest operating system version for the virtual machine VMware Inc 99 Workstation User s Manual To upgrade a guest operating system 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settings In the virtual machine settings editor click Options On the General settings panel in the Version field select the version to which you plan to upgrade and click OK The setting you specify here is written to the virtual machine s configuration file This setting does not actually change the guest operating system itself Power on the virtual machine To upgrade the guest operating system follow the upgrade instructions provided by the operating system vendor Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine You might never need to know the filenames or locations for your virtual machine files Virtual machine file management is performed by Workstation A virtual machine typically is stored on the host computer in a set of files usually in a directory created by Workstati
543. t ACE instance If you select User Preference the user has access to Go mobile and Ask to go mobile or stay connected to the computer in the Preferences dialog box in VMware Player VMware Player gt Preferences m Always go The virtual machine is powered off and synchronized to the host After synchronization the user can unplug the USB device and use it in another machine m Always stay The user wants to exit VMware Player but does not want to unplug the device The virtual machine is suspended and no synchronization occurs m Always discard The user wants to exit VMware Player but does not want to synchronize All changes are lost Disable the ability for users to manually power off or reset the virtual machine The Reset and Power off and Exit commands do not appear in the VMware Player gt Troubleshoot menu To power off or suspend the ACE instance the user must exit VMware Player Pocket ACE Cache Settings For performance reasons when you use Pocket ACE files from the USB device are cached as needed on the host When you are finished using the Pocket ACE you synchronize changes so that the updated files are written to the USB device You can disable this caching if you do not have enough disk space on the host For example if the virtual disk on the Pocket ACE has 8GB you might potentially need 8 GB of disk space on the host for caching You can also disable caching for security reasons if you do not want t
544. t Custom script and use the Browse button to point to the script you want to use c Click OK When you reinstall VMware Tools after you update the Workstation software any changes you made to the default scripts are overwritten Any custom scripts you VMware Inc 129 Workstation User s Manual 130 created remain untouched but do not benefit from any underlying changes that enhance the default scripts Run or Disable a Script If you are creating a custom script run the script before associating it with a power operation To run or disable a script 1 On the Scripts tab of the VMware Tools control panel select the appropriate script event Do one of the following To disable the script clear the Use Script check box and click OK Default scripts for suspending and resuming work together If you disable the script of one of these actions disable the script for the other action as well To run a script immediately click Run Now You can successfully run a script by clicking the Run Now button in the VMware Tools control panel but this same script can fail when run as part of a Workstation power operation This is because scripts run by clicking Run Now are run as the logged in user and have a different working directory than when scripts are run by the VMware Tools daemon during a power operation Execute Commands After You Power Off or Reset a Virtual Machine Ina Linux Solaris or FreeBSD guest y
545. t License 1 Choose VMware Player gt Enter ACE Client License 2 Do one of the following m Enter the serial number in the dialog box m If you need to purchase a license click Get Serial Number 3 Click OK Quit VMware Player As a best practice quit VMware Player before you shut down the host computer To quit VMware Player Choose VMware Player gt Exit on Windows hosts or VMware Player gt Quit on Linux hosts Depending on the configured exit behavior the ACE instance is suspended or shuts down and the window closes Also depending on the configuration end users might be able to change the exit behavior in the Preferences dialog box Player gt Preferences VMware Inc 449 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Troubleshooting Tools 450 VMware ACE includes some troubleshooting tools that allow administrators and help desk assistants to fix some common problems that users have with ACE instances such as forgotten user passwords The tools are m For standalone ACE instances m The ACE Tools which is a command line tool See ACE Tools vmware acetool Command Line Tool on page 450 m The hot fix feature which users access from buttons in dialog boxes See Respond to Hot Fix Requests on page 452 m For managed ACE instances see the VMware ACE Management Server User s Guide ACE Tools vmware acetool Command Line Tool The vmware acetool command line tool is a troubleshooting tool that enables
546. t a virtual disk in a Windows host file system as a separate mapped drive Using a mapped drive lets you connect to the virtual disk without going into a virtual machine After you map a drive to the virtual disk you are not able to power on any virtual machine that uses that disk until you disconnect it from the host Map only disks for Windows guests If you map a disk from a Linux guest when you attempt to access the disk from your host computer you are be prompted to format the disk You can use Workstation to map the disk to a drive on the host and to disconnect the drive If you attempt to use the host s My Computer gt Tools gt Disconnect Network Drive command you are not see the mapped drive letter in the list of network drives NOTE You can mount volumes partitions formatted with FAT 12 16 32 or NTFS only You cannot mount a virtual disk if any of its vmdk files are compressed or have read only permissions 184 VMware Inc Chapter 9 Transferring Files and Text Between the Host and Guest Map a Virtual Disk to a Drive on the Host Before you begin to map a virtual disk make sure that all virtual machines that use the disk are powered off V CAUTION VMware recommends that you leave the check box called Open file in read only mode selected in the Map a Virtual Disk dialog box This setting prevents you from accidentally writing data to a virtual disk that might be the parent of a snapshot or linked clone W
547. t be sent outside the host computer Consult your operating system documentation for details on how to configure packet filtering Disable Packet Forwarding on Windows Hosts Systems using server versions of Windows operating systems are capable of forwarding IP packets that are not addressed to them By default however these systems and Windows Vista systems come with IP packet forwarding disabled IP forwarding is not an issue on Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition hosts If you find packets leaking out of a host only network on a Windows host computer check to see if forwarding has been enabled on the host machine If it is enabled disable it To disable packet forwarding on Windows host Do one of the following m Stop the Routing and Remote Access service a Choose Start gt Run and then enter services msc in the Run dialog box b Inthe Services window that appears disable the Routing and Remote Access service m Use Windows Administrative Tools to disable routing and remote access a Ona Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Server host choose Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools gt Routing and Remote Access An icon on the left is labeled with the host name If a green dot appears over the icon IP forwarding is turned on b To turn off IP forwarding right click the icon and disable Routing and Remote Access A red dot appears indicating that IP forwarding is disabled
548. t for 64 bit guest operating systems is available only on the following versions of these processors m Revision D or later of AMD Athlon 64 Opteron Turion 64 and Sempron VMware Inc Chapter 1 Introduction and System Requirements m Intel Pentium 4 Core 2 and Xeon processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization Technology Memory 512MB minimum 2GB is recommended You must have enough memory to run the host operating system plus the memory required for each guest operating system and for applications on the host and guest See your guest operating system and application documentation for their memory requirements As of version 6 5 of Workstation the total amount of memory you can assign to all virtual machines running on a single host is unlimited The maximum amount of memory per virtual machine is 8GB Display 16 bit or 32 bit display adapter is recommended Disk Drives Guest operating systems can reside on physical disk partitions or in virtual disk files Hard Disk m IDE and SCSI hard drives supported m Atleast 1GB free disk space recommended for each guest operating system and the application software used with it If you use a default setup the actual disk space needs are approximately the same as those for installing and running the guest operating system and applications on a physical computer m For installation 200MB Linux or 900MB Windows free disk space required for basic installation You can
549. t n gt is the maximum number of characters obtained from the actual logged in user when the name is resolved Use lt n gt if you the user name must be resolved to no more than a certain number of characters For example if you specify that 3 random characters are to be added to the actual user name and you want to limit the resolved name to 15 characters set lt n gt to 12 Your entry in the Name field in the System Options panel is logon_user 12 random_alpha_digit 3 Including n in the placeholder is optional If you use only logon_user or if you set lt n gt to zero 0 the placeholder resolves to the full logged in user name host_name or host_name n The name of the host computer usually used with some additional random number or name You can use host_name n where lt n gt is the maximum number of characters obtained from the actual computer host name when the name is resolved Use lt n gt if the host name must be resolved to not more than a certain number of characters For example if you specify that 3 random characters are to be added to the actual host name and you want to limit the resolved name to 15 characters set lt n gt to 12 Your entry in the Computer Name field in the System Options panel is host_name 12 random_alpha_digit 3 Including n in the placeholder is optional If you use only host_name or if you set lt n gt to zero that is the placeholder resolves to the full host name
550. t operating system has VMware Tools from Workstation 4 0 shared folders appear as folders on a designated drive letter To view shared folders in a Windows guest m Look in My Network Places gt Entire Network Network Neighborhood for a Windows NT guest or Network for Windows Vista under VMware Shared Folders If you have trouble finding a shared folder using the desktop icon open Windows Explorer and look in My Network Places or Network Neighborhood m To view a specific shared folder do one of the following m Navigate to it on the guest system by opening My Network Places gt Entire Network gt VMware Shared Folders gt host gt Shared Folders gt lt shared_ folder_ name gt m Go directly to the folder using the UNC path host Shared Folders lt shared_folder_name gt m To map ashared folder to a drive letter on the guest system do one of the following m In Windows Explorer choose Tools gt Map Network Drive and browse to the location of the shared folder m Go directly to the folder using the UNC path host Shared Folders VMware Inc 181 Workstation User s Manual 182 View Shared Folders in a Linux or Solaris 10 Guest To view shared folders in a Linux or Solaris 10 guest m Ona Linux virtual machine shared folders appear under mnt hgfs m Ona Solaris virtual machine shared folders appear under hgfs View Shared Folders on the Host From the Workstation menu bar choose VM gt Settin
551. t up to create a new UUID every time it is moved Power off the virtual machine and begin using it as a master copy by copying the virtual machine files to other locations NOTE You can avoid creating a master copy that always creates a new UUID if you simply clone the virtual machine rather than copy it See Cloning a Virtual Machine on page 201 Always Keep If you intend to move the virtual machine numerous times and want to keep the same UUID each time the virtual machine moves select Always Keep NOTE To change the Always Keep or Always Create setting power off the virtual machine and edit its configuration file vmx Delete the line that contains this text uuid action create or uuid action keep Conversely to specify to always keep or always create the UUID and not prompt the user to choose a setting when first powering on the virtual machine edit the configuration file and add the appropriate line for uuid action VMware Inc Chapter 11 Cloning Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines Suspending and resuming a virtual machine does not trigger the process that generates a UUID The UUID in use at the time the virtual machine was suspended remains in use when the virtual machine is resumed even if it was copied or moved The next time the virtual machine is rebooted the message appears so you can create a new UUID or keep the existing one Specify a UUID for a Virtual Machine Although UUID
552. t version of VMware Tools is installed If instance customization is enabled checks that the SysprepTools directory for the ACE enabled virtual machine s guest operating system is not empty If the guest operating system is Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows 2003 checks that the folders in the Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Resources SysprepTools folder are not empty 427 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 428 You can deploy a package over a network or on DVD or CD If you deploy the package on discs the first disc of the set includes the autorun files needed to start the installer automatically when the user inserts the disc in the host computer s drive Turn Off the VMware Tools Check for Test Deployments If you do not have the latest version of VMware Tools installed in the guest operating system the wizard fails to create the package To create packages without installing the latest Tools version each time for example if you want to perform a test deployment of these packages and don t need the latest Tools in the resulting instances to run your tests you can turn off the Tools check To turn off the VMware Tools check for test deployments 1 3 Close Workstation Use a text editor to open the preferences ini file which is located in the C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware VMware Workstation directory Add the following line to the file pref ignoreToolsPkgCheck TRUE
553. tandalone ACE instances use the VMware Help Desk Web application or the instance view in Workstation For more information see the ACE Management Server User s Guide The hot fix request is a file that the user must submit to an administrator for action You configure whether the user submits the file to an administrator manually or through email generated by the Hot Fix Request wizard For automatically generated email the Hot Fix Request wizard on the user s computer attempts to use a MAPI email client on the host operating system The hot fix request file is included as an attachment to the email message The message uses the email address and subject line that you specify If you choose email and the automatic submission fails the Hot Fix Request wizard allows the user to save the hot fix request as a file The user must then send the file to an administrator manually The administrator uses Workstation to respond to hot fix requests See Respond to Hot Fix Requests on page 452 Setting the Policy Update Frequency for Managed ACE Instances 400 This policy controls how often an ACE instance connects to the ACE Management Server to download policy updates while it is running It also controls how long a managed ACE instance can be used if it cannot connect to the ACE Management Server This policy applies only to managed ACE instances To deploy policy updates for standalone ACE instances you must create policy update packag
554. tch mode choose View gt Fit Guest Now 5 To get out of quick switch mode move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen to activate the menu and choose View gt Quick Switch VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines Use Exclusive Mode You might want to use exclusive mode to run graphics intensive applications such as games in full screen mode Before you begin make sure the guest operating system has VMware Tools installed See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 Like full screen mode exclusive mode causes the Workstation virtual machine display to fill the screen Drawbacks to using exclusive mode include the following The full screen toolbar is not available in exclusive mode To configure any virtual machine settings you need to leave exclusive mode by pressing Ctrl Alt Exclusive mode does not use more than one monitor Exclusive mode causes the host resolution to resize which can cause items on the host desktop to be moved To use exclusive mode 1 2 VMware Inc Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered on If you have multiple monitors move the Workstation window onto the monitor you want to use Press Ctrl Alt Enter to enter full screen mode On the full screen toolbar do one of the following On Windows hosts click the Workstation icon to display the system menu and choose Exclusive Mode System menu e i Windows XP Professi
555. ted On that menu if Serial lt n gt is not reported as pipe lt namedpipe gt choose the virtual serial port and click Connect 4 On the host open a command prompt window and do one of the following m Ifyou are using WinDbg type the following windbg k com port pipe lt namedpipe gt pipe m Ifyou are using KD type the following kd k com port pipe lt namedpipe gt pipe 5 Press Enter to start debugging Debug an Application in a Virtual Machine from Another Virtual Machine This setup is useful if you use Workstation on a Linux host In this situation you have kernel code to debug in the target virtual machine and are running Debugging Tools for Windows WinDbg or Kernel Debugger KD in the debugger virtual machine on the same host Before you begin download and install WinDbg or KD in the Windows guest that you plan to use as the debugger virtual machine VMware Inc 323 Workstation User s Manual To debug an application from another virtual machine 1 Prepare the target virtual machine by using the appropriate platform specific procedure for the server virtual machine See Use a Serial Port Connection Between Two Virtual Machines on page 320 On Windows hosts under I O Mode select the Yield CPU on poll check box because the kernel in the target virtual machine uses the virtual serial port in polled mode not interrupt mode Follow the steps for the client virtual machine in Use a Se
556. tes Occur On Windows and Linux guest systems you can set VMware Tools to update itself when the virtual machine is powered on The status bar displays the message Installing VMware Tools whenan update is in progress After the update is complete if you are logged in to a Windows guest a restart prompt appears for 30 seconds If you are not logged in the operating system restarts without prompting Automatic updates work for versions of VMware Tools included in Workstation 5 5 and above build 29772 and above Automatic updates do not work for versions of VMware Tools included in virtual machines created with VMware Server 1 x An auto update check is performed as part of the boot sequence when you power on a virtual machine If the virtual machine was suspended and you resume it or restore it to a snapshot during the boot sequence before this check occurs the automatic update occurs as planned If you resume the virtual machine or restore it to a snapshot after the auto update check occurs the automatic update does not occur For more information about automatic updates see Use Global Settings to Update VMware Tools Automatically on page 119 and Set Autoupdate Options for Each Virtual Machine on page 119 How You Are Notified to Do a Manual Update On Windows and Linux guests you can specify that no automatic update should occur On other operating systems automatic updates are not possible In these cases perform
557. th before you start the X server or restart the X server after making the changes Support for Direct3D Graphics To take advantage of the 3 D capabilities of Workstation the virtual machine must be running the version of VMware Tools included with Workstation 6 5 or higher For example you do not need to upgrade a Workstation 6 0 virtual machine to Workstation 6 5 but you do need to upgrade the VMware Tools running inside it If you move the virtual machine and want to use the 3 D capabilities be sure you have the correct version of VMware Tools installed Accelerated 3 D Restrictions Support for applications that use DirectX 9 accelerated graphics applies only to Windows XP guests on hosts running Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista or Linux 308 VMware Inc Chapter 17 Configuring Video and Sound This feature currently has the following restrictions Workstation now offers support for DirectX games and applications whose versions are up to DirectX 9 Support for 3 D applications is not optimized for performance OpenGL applications run in software emulation mode Enabling Accelerated 3 D By default Direct3D technology is enabled for Workstation 6 and later virtual machines You must prepare the host first the virtual machine second and the guest operating system last To enable a host for accelerated 3 D 1 VMware Inc With regards to hardware the host must have a video card capable of running accele
558. that requires the ACE Resources directory you must create an update package to deploy the change to end users Review the Configuration of an ACE Enabled Virtual Machine 424 To finish preparing your ACE enabled virtual machine and its files for packaging review its configuration and policies and ensure that the appropriate operating system and software are installed in it To review the configuration of an ACE enabled virtual machine 1 Verify that the ACE enabled virtual machine has the necessary operating system application software and VMware Tools installed See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 For information about specific operating systems see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide To review configuration settings select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose View gt Current View gt Summary To review virtual machine devices and virtual hardware click the Devices tab in the summary view To review virtual machine configuration options click the Options tab To make changes to devices or options click Edit virtual machine settings in the Commands list To review policies and deployment settings click the ACE tab To make changes to policies or deployment settings click Edit policies or Edit deployment settings in the Commands list VMware Inc Chapter 22 Deploying ACE Instances Use Preview Mode to Test Policy and Deployment Settings Preview mode enables you to run a
559. the X on the tab on a Linux host To display the home page again choose View gt Go to Home Tab Summary View When you select a tab for a powered off virtual machine or team of machines Workstation displays only a summary of the configuration information about that item Workstation also displays a summary for a suspended virtual machine or team Click the Summary toolbar button at any time to examine settings in the summary view Summary views appear only for virtual machines that are currently open See Starting a Virtual Machine on page 149 The summary or console view remains visible as long as the virtual machine remains open VMware Inc Chapter 4 Learning Workstation Basics Figure 4 2 shows an example of the summary view Figure 4 2 Summary View for a Virtual Machine Windows Host Summary View button orkstation e x p build 6 le la wi i m File Edt view vM Team Windows Help la ujo 4 J at aaa loa gace w Is Window s XP Professional Wks 6 ay Vista VM ACE_VM State Powered on Guest OS Windows XP Professional Configuration file E My Virtual Machines ACE_VM ACE_VM vmx Version Workstation 6 x virtual machine Snapshot Preview Deployment Snapshot Taken Automatically Clone of E My Virtual Machines 4CE_VM ACE_VM vmx Commands Devices Options ACE gt Start this virtual machine E Memory 256 MB Edit virtual machine settings amp Hard Disk IDE 8 GB 03
560. the following command usr bin vmware netcfg When prompted enter the administrator password The virtual network editor appears If the table in the network editor does not display a row for the network type you want click Add Network and complete the Add Virtual Network dialog box Use vmnet1 for a host only network type and use vmnet8 for a NAT network type In the virtual network editor select the row in the table that corresponds to the network you want to edit and verify that the NAT radio button or the Host only radio button is selected as appropriate Use the appropriate check boxes to specify whether you want to use a DHCP service a host virtual adapter or both To specify subnet IP do one of the following and click Save m To automatically select an unused subnet IP leave the Subnet IP text box empty The next time you start the virtual network editor the subnet IP appears in the text box m Type the subnet IP you want to use in the Subnet IP text box Configuring Host Virtual Network Adapters When you install Workstation two network adapters are added to the configuration of your host operating system One allows the host to connect to the host only network and one allows the host to connect to the NAT network If you are not using a virtual network adapter you can remove it On a Windows host you can also disable an adapter The presence of virtual network adapters has a slight performance cost becau
561. the latest version of VMware Tools on the guest operating system See Installing VMware Tools on page 105 m Download the Microsoft Sysprep tools See Download the Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Tools on page 417 m Gather the following information m The Windows product ID for the guest operating system installation m If the ACE instance will be joined to a domain whether the instance is local or remote to the domain the user name and password for an account that has permission to add computers to the domain m Remote domain join parameters if a remote ACE instance will be joined to a domain See Set Up a Remote Domain Join on page 420 Download the Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Tools You do not need to download Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools if you have a Windows Vista operating system They are included with the Windows Vista installation To download the Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools 1 Go to the Microsoft Web site and search for Sysprep deployment tools 2 Follow the instructions on the site for downloading the Sysprep deployment tools Download all versions that correspond to the guest operating systems that you plan to deploy These tools include Sysprep deployment tools for Windows 2000 Windows 2003 and Windows XP Professional SP1 and SP2 The SP1 version works with Windows XP Professional with no service pack and Windows XP Professional SP1 3 Unzip the files into the directory where Workstation
562. the registration card in your package If you purchased Workstation online the serial number is sent by email Your serial number allows you to use Workstation only on the host operating system for which you licensed the software For example if you have a serial number for a Windows host you cannot run the software on a Linux host You need one license for each user To use Workstation on a different host operating system purchase a license on the VMware Web site You can also get an evaluation license at no charge for a 30 day evaluation of the software For more information go to the VMware Web site If you do not enter the Workstation serial number at installation time an option available on a Windows host you are prompted to enter it the first time you attempt to power on a virtual machine A guest operating system After Workstation is installed you need the operating system installation CDs or ISO image files to set up a guest in a virtual machine Optional Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio To install the Eclipse or Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger plug ins included with Workstation Eclipse or Visual Studio must be installed on the host before you run the Workstation installer If you install one or both of these programs after you install Workstation run the Workstation installer again and select the Modify option to install the plug ins at that time Sharing a Workstation Host with Other VMware Products
563. the server are confused and the file transfer fails Or consider a case in which you take a snapshot while an application in the virtual machine is sending a transaction to a database on a separate machine If you revert to that snapshot after the transaction starts but before it is committed the database is likely to be confused Enable or Disable Background Snapshots When you set a preference to take snapshots in the background you can continue working while the state of the virtual machine is being preserved If you take another snapshot or revert to a snapshot before Workstation completes a pending snapshot operation a progress dialog box appears You must wait for the pending snapshot operation to finish before the next snapshot or resume operation begins Enabling background snapshots for a host with slow hard disks can adversely affect performance If you experience significant performance problems when taking or restoring snapshots disable background snapshots To enable or disable background snapshots 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Preferences 2 Click the Priority tab and do one of the following m To enable background snapshots select the check box in the Snapshots section m To disable background snapshots deselect the check box 3 Click OK and restart the virtual machine Exclude a Virtual Disk from Snapshots In certain configurations you might want to revert some disks to a snapshot while o
564. the summary view click the Preview in Player in the Commands list A package based on a linked clone is created in a new directory Preview Deployment inside the ACE enabled virtual machine s directory The linked clone is created from a snapshot of the virtual machine s current state Unlike a package that is deployed to an ACE user s machine this package is not installed VMware Player allows you to activate and authenticate the ACE instance if those policies are set If configured instance customization is also performed The guest operating system starts 5 Test the policy change in the running ACE instance to ensure that it is the one you want to make VMware Inc 425 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual Preview mode enables VMware Player to run interactively so that you can see any instance customization errors and make corrections as needed 6 Optional To make additional changes to policies or deployment settings shut down the virtual machine and repeat this procedure You can have only one preview instance per ACE enabled virtual machine When you click Preview in Player a second or subsequent time a message asks if you want to replace the current preview instance with a new deployment or use the existing deployment To change only policies and not repeat the activation and instance customization steps use the existing deployment 7 Ifan ACE Management Server is managing the virtual machine click Publish Policie
565. the vmnet DHCP server service m Ona Windows host from the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt DHCP select the service and click Stop m Ona Linux host open a terminal and use the following command to stop the vmnet dhcpd service killall TERM vmnet dhcpd Install guest operating systems in each of the virtual machines Install the router software either on the host computer or in the third virtual machine depending on the approach you are using Configure networking in the first two virtual machines to use addresses on the appropriate host only network VMware Inc 8 VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking On Windows hosts open a command prompt and run ipconfig all to see which IP addresses each host only network is using On Linux hosts open a terminal and run ifconfig to see which IP addresses each host only network is using Assign IP addresses by doing one of the following If you are running the router on the host computer assign default router addresses based on the addresses of the host only adapters on the host computer In the first virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the host only adapter connected to vmnetl In the second virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the host only adapter connected to vmnet2 If you are running the r
566. ther disks retain all changes For example you might want a snapshot to preserve a disk with your operating system and applications while always keeping the changes to a disk with your documents You can exclude virtual disks from a snapshot by changing the disk mode Before you begin power off the virtual machine and delete any existing snapshots VMware Inc Chapter 10 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine To exclude a virtual disk from snapshots 1 Start Workstation and select the virtual machine 2 Choose VM gt Settings 3 On the Hardware tab select the drive to exclude and click Advanced 4 Select Independent and select one of the following options m Persistent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk All changes to an independent disk in persistent mode remain even when you revert to a snapshot m Nonpersistent Current changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to a snapshot Snapshot Manager Overview You can review all snapshots for the active virtual machine and act on them directly in the snapshot manager Figure 10 4 illustrates the components of the snapshot manager Figure 10 4 Snapshot Manager on a Windows Host Z windows xP Professional Wks 6 Snapshot Manager mi snapshotofa snapshot m gt g gt recording tree Windows XP Test Case 1 Recording 1 Profession Pass l Q ordinary Test Case 2 Test Case 3 snapsh
567. ther virtual machine Corruption is possible if you allow the virtual machine to modify a partition that is simultaneously mounted on the host operating system Check the guest operating system documentation regarding the type of partition on which the operating system can be installed On Windows Vista hosts you cannot use the system partition or the physical disk that contains it in a virtual machine DOS Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems must be installed on the first primary partition Other operating systems such as Linux can be installed on a primary or an extended partition on any part of the drive Make sure the physical partition or disk does not have data you need in the future If it does back up the data On Windows hosts If you use a Windows host s IDE disk in a physical disk configuration make sure it is not configured as the slave on the secondary IDE channel if the master on that channel is a CD ROM drive If your host is running Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 do not use a dynamic disk as a physical disk in a virtual machine Use the disk management tool to check the disk type and change a dynamic disk to a basic disk which destroys all data See Change a Windows Disk Type from Dynamic to Basic on page 223 VMware Inc Chapter 12 Using Disks and Disk Drives m Make sure the partition you want to use is unmapped See Unmap a Partition That Is Mapped to a Windows NT
568. these tasks Using Workstation 6 5 you have the following upgrade and downgrade choices m Upgrade a Workstation 4 virtual machine to Workstation 5 6 0 x or 6 5 m Upgrade a Workstation 5 virtual machine to version 6 0 x or 6 5 or downgrade it to version 4 m Downgrade a Workstation 6 x virtual machine to either version 4 or version 5 The Change Version wizard also helps you determine which virtual hardware version to use Consider the following when changing the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine m The wizard lets you either change the version of the original virtual machine or create a full clone so that the original remains unaltered VMware Inc 57 Workstation User s Manual 58 If you upgrade a Workstation 4 or 5 virtual machine that is compatible with ESX Server to Workstation 6 x you will not be able to later downgrade it again to an ESX compatible virtual machine by using the Change Version wizard On Windows hosts you can however use the Converter Import wizard choose File gt Import to perform such a downgrade When you upgrade a Windows XP Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista virtual machine the Microsoft product activation feature might require you to reactivate the guest operating system To change the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine 1 2 Make backup copies of the virtual disks vmdk files In the guest operating system make a note of the NIC settings Specifically
569. ting systems after the SVGA driver is installed you are prompted to reboot to use this new driver The wizard finishes installing VMware Tools Reboot the virtual machine if necessary To change the default configuration options see Open the VMware Tools Control Panel on page 121 Configure the Video Driver on Older Versions of Windows If you are installing VMware Tools in a virtual machine that has a Windows NT Windows Me Windows 98 or Windows 95 operating system you might need to configure the video driver manually When you click Finish in the VMware Tools installation wizard a message appears indicating that VMware Tools failed to install the SVGA driver appears A Notebook window the Display Properties Settings dialog box and a message box prompting you to reboot the machine To configure the video driver on older versions of Windows 1 VMware Inc In the message box that prompts you to reboot click No If you click Yes after the virtual machine reboots run the VMware Tools installer again choose VM gt Install VMware Tools Select the Repair option The Repair option allows the Notebook window to appear again so that the installer can access the SVGA driver Follow the instructions in the Notebook file 107 Workstation User s Manual 108 The instructions are specific to each operating system They provide steps for selecting the VMware SVGA driver usually in the Display Properties Settings
570. ting to start applications 469 editing to attach to applications 471 editing to start applications 469 managing 469 485 removing 489 renaming 489 configuring ACE enabled virtual machine 424 connect CD DVDs and floppies to ISO images 230 VMware Inc Index USB devices 337 Conversion wizard 137 Converter Import wizard 146 147 converting virtual machines 137 copy protection policy 383 copy virtual machine 207 copyright information for Workstation 126 CPU host requirement 26 provided in virtual machine 32 creating packages 426 policies for an ACE instance 374 creating a virtual disk 219 Creative Labs 311 Creative Labs Sound Blaster 35 Ctrl Alt 325 custom EULA package setting 422 D DDNS 285 debugging attaching to processes in a virtual machine 473 491 starting applications in virtual ma chine without 473 starting in a virtual machine 472 490 using serial connection 322 default scripts for VMware Tools 127 defragmenting virtual disks 217 defragmenting virtual disks before shrinking 218 deleting configurations 472 recordings 197 recordings of virtual machine activity 241 snapshots 193 197 503 Workstation User s Manual 504 virtual machines 153 deploying packages 426 deployment platform setting 423 deployment settings instance customization specifying 417 deployment tools See Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools destinations for imported virtual machines 144 device con
571. tion to Virtual Machine Settings Workstation configures a new virtual machine based on the guest operating system you select in the New Virtual Machine wizard After the virtual machine is created you can use the virtual machine settings editor VM gt Settings to change any configuration options set by the wizard The virtual machine settings editor appears when you select a virtual machine and choose VM gt Settings Hardware Tab Use the Hardware tab to add remove and configure virtual devices for the selected virtual machine Figure 4 9 Virtual Machine Settings Hardware Tab virtual Machine Settings xj Hardware Options Device Summary gt Memory Memory 256 MB Specify the amount of memory allocated to this virtual Hard Disk IDE 20GB machine The memory size must be a multiple of 4 MB E CD ROM IDE 0 Auto detect Memory for this virtual machine amp Floppy Auto detect 552 MB EB Ethernet Bridged ERIE RE IE O USB Controller Present 42h 3684 Serial Port Auto detect Parallel Port Auto detect A Guest OS recommended minimum 128 MB amp Display 2 monitors A Recommended memory 256 MB Processors 1 amp Maximum recommended memory 1740 MB Memory swapping may occur beyond this size Remove Add Cancel Help VMware Inc 79 Workstation User s Manual 80 When you select an item in the hardware list the options that correspond to the item
572. tion while leaving other ACE instances installed Keep users up to date If you need to update the guest operating system update a program running inside the ACE instance or change policies set for the ACE package you can create and distribute a new package Overview of the ACE User Interface Use any of the following methods to access the policy editor deployment settings editor and packaging wizards VMware Inc Select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose a command from the VM gt ACE menu In the summary view for the ACE enabled virtual machine click an ACE related command in the Commands list The ACE tab in the summary view lists the current settings for policies and deployment Click a button in the ACE toolbar Right click the ACE enabled virtual machine in the sidebar and choose an ACE related command 371 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual ACE Management Server has two interfaces m In Workstation select an ACE Management Server in the sidebar to display the instance view m Use the VMware Help Desk application Because this interface is browser based you can use it from machines that do not have Workstation installed Both interfaces offer the same functionality Administrators can view and control all managed ACE instances An advanced search function allows you to locate instances in the database quickly You can customize the interface by adding searchable custom fields See the VMware ACE
573. tions that require connections to more than one physical network adapter on the host computer Linux and Windows hosts can use bridged networking to connect to both wired and wireless networks Set Up Requirements for IP Addresses If you use bridged networking your virtual machine must have its own identity on the network For example on a TCP IP network the virtual machine needs its own IP address Your network administrator can tell you whether IP addresses are available for your virtual machine and which networking settings you should use in the guest operating system Generally your guest operating system can acquire an IP address and other network details automatically from a DHCP server or you might need to set the IP address and other details manually in the guest operating system If you use bridged networking the virtual machine is a full participant in the network It has access to other machines on the network and can be contacted by other machines on the network as if it were a physical computer on the network NOTE If the host computer is set up to boot multiple operating systems and you run one or more of them in virtual machines you need to configure each operating system with a unique network address Users who boot multiple operating systems often assign all systems the same address since they assume only one operating system will be running at a time If you use one or more of the operating systems in a virtual mach
574. to undoable but the changes are preserved until a system administrator deletes the redo log file drag and drop With the drag and drop feature of Workstation you can move files easily between a Windows or Linux host and a Windows Linux or Solaris virtual machine You can drag and drop individual files or entire directories Favorites list A list in the left panel of the main Workstation screen that shows the names of virtual machines that a user has added to the list The Favorites list makes it easy to launch a virtual machine or to connect to the virtual machine s configuration file in order to make changes in the virtual machine settings full clone A complete copy of the original virtual machine plus all associated virtual disks See also linked clone full screen mode A display mode in which the virtual machine s display fills the entire screen See also full screen switch mode full screen switch mode A display mode in which the virtual machine s display fills the entire screen and the user has no access to the VMware Workstation user interface The user cannot create reconfigure or launch virtual machines A system administrator performs these functions See also full screen mode Go to Snapshot command The Go to Snapshot command allows you to restore any snapshot of the active virtual machine See also revert to snapshot guest operating system An operating system that runs inside a virtual machine See also host
575. to_package gt ACE_Pkg vmware install pl default This command installs the package and VMware Player if included into the default locations Uninstall VMware Player or an ACE Instance from a Linux Host ACE users can uninstall only the ACE instances that they installed Only the root user can uninstall others ACE instances Uninstalling an ACE instance does not uninstall the VMware Player application When you uninstall an ACE instance the ACE instance s data files shortcuts and registry entries are uninstalled Uninstalling VMware Player does not uninstall the ACE instance Only the root user can uninstall VMware Player To uninstall VMware Player or an ACE instance from a Linux host 1 On the host computer open a terminal window 2 Doone or both of the following m To uninstall an ACE instance enter the following command lt path_to_instance_directory gt vmware uninstall ace pl m To uninstall VMware Player enter the following command usr bin vmware uninstaLL pL Start and Use an ACE Instance When you run an ACE instance VMware Player starts and opens the instance You start the instance in the same way that you start other applications on the host One exception is if the administrator configures the ACE instance to start and run in full screen mode when the host system starts See Setting Runtime Preferences Policies on page 395 Depending on how the ACE instance is configured end users might be required to
576. ts and displays the console view of the virtual machine Virtual Machine Location By default virtual machine files are stored in the virtual machine s working directory m On Windows hosts Workstation stores virtual machines in the My Documents folder of the user who is logged on at the time the virtual machine is created On Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 the default folder is C Documents and Settings lt username gt My Documents My Virtual Machines lt guestOSname gt On Windows Vista the default folder is C Users lt username gt Virtual Machines lt guestOSname gt m On Linux hosts Workstation stores virtual machines in lt homedir gt vmware lt guestOSname gt Here lt homedir gt is the home directory of the user who is logged on at the time the virtual machine is created The working directory is also where Workstation stores suspended state vmss snapshot vmsn and redo log files The General tab of the virtual machine settings editor displays the path to the working directory See Introduction to Virtual Machine Settings on page 79 VMware Inc 151 Workstation User s Manual Shut Down a Virtual Machine 152 As with physical computers you can shut down a guest operating system before you power off the virtual machine or team You are not required to shut down the guest before exiting Workstation If you want to exit Workstation but leave the virtual machine running in the b
577. tting for the ACE instance s host machine and for the ACE instance s guest system is based on a set of access rules Whenever you use the Network Access wizard a default ruleset is used for host and guest network access You can use the ruleset editor to change the parameters of those rules Network access policies are applied by filtering on the IP address the protocol number from the IP header the direction of traffic and TCP and UDP port values The filtering does not involve deep packet inspection For DNS and DHCP access the TCP and UDP ports on which those services traditionally reside are opened Note the following aspects of the filtering actions m If you move your services to different ports the network access rules for those services no longer work m The host or instance is open to all traffic on these protocols and ports To understand the particulars of how traffic is being blocked or allowed for DNS DHCP and ICMP protocols and ports see the rules displayed in the ruleset editor Add or Edit Rulesets and Rules for Network Access The rules in the ruleset editor are listed in the order in which they are to be evaluated When a network traffic packet arrives or is to be sent from the host or guest it is compared with each rule in the ruleset in order from the top down If the following packet settings match the rule conditions the packet is allowed or blocked according to the rule s action m Source address for inc
578. tting providing password protection for Windows hosts Administrative lockout restricts users from creating new virtual machines editing virtual machine configurations and changing network settings bridged networking A type of network connection between a virtual machine and the rest of the world Under bridged networking a virtual machine appears as an additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as the host See also host only networking clone A duplicate copy of a virtual machine See also full clone linked clone configuration See virtual machine configuration file custom networking Any type of network connection between virtual machines and the host that does not use the default bridged host only or network address translation NAT networking configurations For instance different virtual machines can be connected to the host by separate networks or connected to each other and not to the host Any network topology is possible disk mode A property of a virtual disk that defines its external behavior how the virtualization layer treats its data but is completely invisible to the guest operating system Available modes vary by product and include persistent mode changes to VMware Inc 493 Workstation User s Manual 494 the disk are always preserved across sessions nonpersistent mode changes are never preserved undoable mode changes are preserved at the user s discretion and append mode similar
579. ttings and click the Virtual Machines tab 2 Use the up and down arrow buttons to arrange the virtual machines in the list The virtual machine at the top of the list is the first in the startup sequence 3 Select each virtual machine and specify how many seconds you want it to wait before starting the next virtual machine If the virtual machine team depends on precise startup timing experiment to determine how much time the host and guest operating environments and applications need to launch VMware Inc Chapter 14 Configuring Teams 4 Click OK to save your changes Power Operations for Teams and Their Members Power operations for teams are much the same as those for an individual virtual machine However for a team you can also change the sequence in which the members of a team power on and off See Specify the Startup Sequence for a Team on page 252 You can also use Workstation s command line application for team power operations See Appendix A Workstation Command Line Reference on page 455 Power On a Team When you power on a team the virtual machines in the team power on in the startup sequence specified in the team settings editor See Specify the Startup Sequence for a Team on page 252 To power on a team Do one of the following m To use the Workstation GUI select the team and choose Team gt Power gt Power On m To use the command line see Startup Options for Workstation and Virt
580. tual machine Also the guest operating system cannot use DMA direct memory access to move data to or from the port For this reason not all devices that attach to the parallel port are guaranteed to work correctly Add a Virtual Parallel Port to a Virtual Machine If the virtual machine is configured with a parallel port most guest operating systems detect it at installation time and install the required drivers Some operating systems VMware Inc 313 Workstation User s Manual 314 including Linux Windows NT and Windows 2000 automatically detect the ports at boot time Others like Windows 95 and Windows 98 do not To add a virtual parallel port to a virtual machine 1 Select the virtual machine 2 Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 Choose VM gt Settings 4 On the Hardware tab click Add to start the New Hardware wizard 5 Select Parallel Port and click Next 6 Specify which option you want to use for the parallel port m Ifyou select Use physical parallel port click Next and choose the port from the drop down list m Ifyou select Output file click Next and enter the path and filename or browse to the location of the file 7 Under Device status if you do not want the parallel port to connect at power on clear the check box 8 Click Finish In a Windows 95 or Windows 98 guest after you add the port run the guest operating system s Add New Hardware wizard choose Start gt Settings gt Cont
581. tual machine without debugging 473 debugging session in a virtual machine 472 490 session in a virtual machine without debugging 490 starting VMware Player 447 starting Workstation 61 startup commands used by VMware Tools when start ing virtual machines 132 startup scripts using VMware Tools 131 static IP addresses clone 204 range of 293 std file 100 stopping VMware Player 449 StorageCraft images importing 139 subnet VMware Inc Index changing settings 272 275 in NAT configuration 278 on host only network 278 Sun Solaris supported 32 bit guest operating systems 37 supported 64 bit guest operating systems 37 support scripts running 21 suspend defined 498 files 100 team 253 virtual machine 187 sv2i file importing 139 SVGA drivers installing in older Windows guests 107 switch virtual network 259 workspaces in Linux guest 325 symmetric multiprocessing See virtual SMP Sysprep deployment tools See Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools System requirements local area networking 28 system requirements 26 display 27 memory 27 PC hardware 26 T tabs in Preferences dialog box 77 virtual machine 63 tape drive 343 tar file for installing VMware Tools 111 515 Workstation User s Manual 516 tar installer for VMware Workstation 46 team adding virtual machine to 251 and LAN segments 254 cloning virtual machine from 257 closing 248 creating clone in New Team wizard 246
582. tual serial port to send its output to a file on the host This setup is useful if you want to capture the data a program running in the virtual machine sends to the virtual serial port To add a virtual serial port to a virtual machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off Choose VM gt Settings On the Hardware tab click Add to start the Add Hardware wizard Select Serial Port and click Next Specify which option you want to use for the serial port m Ifyou select Use physical serial port on the host click Next and choose the port on the host computer that you want to use for this serial connection m Ifyou select Output file click Next and enter the path and filename or browse to the location of the file In the Device status section if you do not want the serial port to connect at power on clear the check box Click Finish to return to the virtual machine settings editor Optional On the Hardware tab to configure this serial port to use polled mode select Yield CPU on poll This option is of interest to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection If the serial port in the guest is being used in polled mode rather than interrupt mode you might notice performance issues This option forces the virtual machine to yield processor time if the only task it is trying to do is poll the virtual serial port Connect an Applicatio
583. twork cards an so on The VMware specific drivers replace the Microsoft drivers V CAUTION Ifyou plan to select Share source on the Virtual Machine Options page of the Conversion wizard make a backup copy of the original Microsoft Virtual PC or Virtual Server before you use the wizard ShadowProtect and Backup Exec System Recovery Images You can import ShadowProtect and Backup Exec System Recovery images but keep the following limitations in mind m Dynamic disks are not supported m All images for the backup of a machine should be in a single folder with no other images placed there m All volumes in the disk up to the active and system volumes must be backed up For example if a disk has four partitions 1 4 with partition 2 as the active volume and partition 3 as the system volume the backup must include 1 through 3 m If it is an incremental image up to 16 incremental backups are supported m For ShadowProtect images of systems with logical drives are not supported if the logical drive is also a system or active volume VMware Inc 141 Workstation User s Manual 142 Appliances That Use Open Virtual Machine Format Open virtual machine format OVF is a platform neutral secure and portable format for packaging and distributing virtual appliances Although OVF does not rely ona specific virtualization platform the Conversion wizard supports only OVF appliances that use VMware virtual hard disks vmdk fil
584. ty the setting affects all of the ACE instances and virtual machines on this instance s host system To change NAT settings 1 Inthe policy editor select Network Access 2 Click NAT Settings on the policy page VMware Inc 391 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 3 Inthe NAT Settings dialog box select Assign IP addresses from this subnet 4 Type the subnet IP address to use and enter zero 0 as the last byte in the address and click OK 5 Create an ACE package and deploy the package The NAT setting is not a dynamic policy setting You can change the setting for a deployed ACE instance only by changing it in the policy and then creating and deploying a new ACE package Understanding the Interaction of Host and Guest Access Filters With Tunneling Protocols Host and guest access filters can differ in their interactions with tunneling protocols A host network access filter sees traffic before packets are encapsulated in the tunneling protocol for example VPN A guest network access filter sees traffic after the packets are encapsulated in the tunneling protocol Because of this guest access filter behavior a user might be able to circumvent guest access restrictions by using tunneling protocols or proxies Updating a Network Access Policy You must create and deploy a new package in order for the host policy to take effect If you use a managed ACE enabled virtual machine to create packages that do not contain a h
585. u can use hot keys to switch from one to another You can also provide hot key access to the host operating system Full screen switch mode is enabled for Windows hosts only Linux hosts do not have full screen switch mode Create a Virtual Machine for Use in Full Screen Switch Mode To create virtual machines run Workstation in standard mode The instructions in this section assume that you are creating the virtual machines on a separate administrative computer You can also create the virtual machines directly on the user s computer If you plan to run the virtual machine on a laptop computer be sure to set the virtual machine to report the battery status as described in Report Battery Information in the Guest Operating System on page 158 Create a virtual machine by following the instructions in Create a Virtual Machine by Using the Custom Setup on page 94 As you complete the New Virtual Machine wizard make the following choices m On the Name the Virtual Machine page make a note of the folder in which you create the virtual machine You must copy all the files in this folder to the user s computer after you finish creating and configuring the virtual machine m On the Specify Disk Capacity page specify the size for the virtual disk and select Allocate all disk space now VMware strongly recommends this selection If you do not make this selection and the host computer s hard disk runs out of space for a growing v
586. ual Machines on page 455 Suspend or Resume a Team When you suspend a team all team virtual machines start suspending simultaneously The startup sequence determines the order in which virtual machines are resumed and how much time elapses before resuming the next team member See Specify the Startup Sequence for a Team on page 252 If you attempt to close Workstation while a team suspend or resume operation is still in progress a warning dialog box appears To suspend or resume a team 1 To suspend or resume a team select the team and choose one of the Team gt Power options All team virtual machines start suspending simultaneously A progress indicator appears for each team member 2 To see the progress of a particular team member choose Team gt Switch To gt lt virtual_machine_name gt VMware Inc 253 Workstation User s Manual The time to complete the operation varies with the size of the virtual machines Perform Power Operations on One Team Member Performing a power operation for one member of a team is similar to performing the operation for a virtual machine that is not part of the team except that instead of selecting the machine from the Favorites list you select it from the team s console tab To perform power operations on one team member 1 Select the virtual machine from the team s console tab 2 Choose the appropriate command from the VM gt Power menu Working with Team Networks
587. ual Machine Requirements and Recommendations This section includes requirements and configuration recommendations for virtual machines Guest Operating System Support The Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger is supported on any Workstation 6 5 virtual machine that is running a supported Windows guest operating system The operating systems that are not supported are m Windows NT m Windows Me m Windows 98 VMware Inc 479 Workstation User s Manual 480 m Windows 95 m Windows for Workgroups m Windows 3 1 m Windows XP Home Edition m Windows Vista Starter Edition Make sure that the version of VMware Tools on the guest operating system matches the version of Workstation 6 5 which the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger is a component of on the host Configure the Network Set up the virtual machine network as Bridged or Host only You cannot To configure the network m To configure the network on Windows XP in the guest system m Select Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Local Security Policy gt Local Policies gt Security Options page m Set the policy Network access Sharing and security model for local accounts to Classic local users authenticated as themselves m To configure the network on Windows Vista Classic local users authenticated as themselves is the default value for this policy To verify that this policy is set correctly follow the same steps as for Windows XP It is n
588. ually choose the option Create a New Virtual Disk In some cases you might want to choose Use an Existing Virtual Disk to use a virtual disk you created previously The wizard displays a page for you to enter the path or browse to the existing virtual disk vmdk file It is possible to use a physical hard disk a raw disk or IDE disk partition in a virtual machine Do not use a physical disk configuration unless you are an expert user See Using Physical Disks in a Virtual Machine on page 221 Disk Capacity The wizard prompts you to set a size between 0 1GB and 950GB for a virtual disk For custom configurations you can also choose whether to allocate all the disk space now or allow the virtual machine to grow as you use it VMware recommends that you allow the disk to grow The option Allocate all disk space now gives somewhat better performance for your virtual machine but it is a time consuming operation that cannot be canceled Also it requires as much physical disk space as you specify for the virtual disk If you allocate all the disk space now you cannot use the shrink disk feature later For custom configurations you are also given the option Split disk into 2GB files Select this option if your virtual disk is stored on a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB Pocket ACE Disk Size Calculator on Windows Only The Pocket ACE feature allows you to store ACE instances on portable devices such as U
589. ueries The incomingtcp Section Use this section to configure TCP port forwarding for NAT In this section you can assign a port number to an IP address and port number on a virtual machine The following line shows the format used in this section 8887 192 168 27 128 21 This example creates a mapping from port 8887 on the host to the IP address 192 168 27 128 and port 21 When this mapping is set and an external machine connects to the host at port 8887 the network packets are forwarded to port 21 the standard port for FTP on the virtual machine with IP address 192 168 27 128 The incomingudp Section Use this section to configure UDP port forwarding for NAT In this section you can assign a port number to an IP address and port number on a virtual machine The following line shows the format used in this section It illustrates a way to forward X server traffic from the host port 6000 to the virtual machine s port 6001 6000 192 168 27 128 6001 This example creates a mapping from port 6000 on the host to the IP address 192 168 27 128 and port 6001 When this mapping is set and an external machine connects to the host at port 6000 the network packets are forwarded to port 6001 on the virtual machine with IP address 192 168 27 128 Considerations for Using NAT Following are the considerations to take into account when you use NAT m NAT causes some performance loss Because NAT requires that every packet sent to an
590. uest Operating System Installation Guide for version details about these operating systems Support for 64 Bit Guest Operating Systems Workstation supports virtual machines with 64 bit guest operating systems running on host machines with the following processors m Revision D or later of AMD Athlon 64 Opteron Turion 64 and Sempron m Intel Pentium 4 and Core 2 processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization Technology Workstation supports virtual machines with 64 bit guest operating systems only on host machines that have one of the supported 64 bit processors When you power on a virtual machine with a 64 bit guest operating system Workstation performs an internal check if the host CPU is not a supported 64 bit processor you cannot power on the virtual machine VMware also provides a standalone utility that you can use without Workstation to perform the same check and determine whether your CPU is supported for Workstation virtual machines with 64 bit guest operating systems You can download the 64 bit processor check utility from www vmware com download Workstation supports virtual machines with 64 bit guest operating systems only in versions 5 5 and later If your version of Workstation is 5 0 or earlier upgrade to version 6 0 or later for 64 bit guest operating system support A virtual machine created in Workstation version 5 5 with a 64 bit operating system cannot be powered on or resumed in Workstation versions 5 0 and earlie
591. ug Monitor on the guest which in turn communicates with the Visual Studio debugger on the host To prevent a time delay power on the virtual machine and log in to the guest operating system before debugging in a virtual machine You can set up automatic login to bypass the login screen when the guest is booting Setting the Password Policy Windows has a default security feature that helps protect users with blank passwords from network based attacks Users who do not password protect their accounts can log in only at their physical computer console the monitor keyboard and mouse that is physically connected to their computer This restriction applies only to local user accounts not to domain user accounts For information on how to disable blank password restrictions see http support microsoft com id 303846 Suppress Security Prompts Running an application from a network share triggers a security prompt every time the file is accessed VMware recommends that you turn off security prompts on the guest operating system To turn off security prompts on the guest system 1 In Internet Explorer choose Tools gt Internet Options gt Security gt Local Intranet and click Sites 2 Click Advanced and add a new Web site file host VMware Inc 481 Workstation User s Manual 482 Edit Registry Key to Suppress Security Prompts To turn off security prompts by editing the registry key 1 Open the registry 2 Add ane
592. ugging session Configure the Firewall on Windows Guest Systems If you are using a 1 4 x JRE on Windows guest systems you must either disable the firewall or allow incoming connections to the JVM If your Windows system such as Windows XP SP2 Windows 2003 and Windows Vista allows you to configure exceptions to the firewall you can add the JVM to the exceptions list To add the JVM to the exceptions list 1 Choose Start gt Control Panel gt Windows Firewall and select the Exceptions tab 2 Click Add Program and browse to the Java executable 3 Click OK 4 Optional On Windows Vista guests you might have to restart the firewall after configuring it to allow incoming connections to the JVM VMware Inc Appendix B Using the Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger Managing Virtual Machine Launch Configurations You can manage configuration settings for each virtual machine in which you want to debug applications Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger launch configurations determine which virtual machine to run the application in and how the application is executed The launch configuration types VMware attach to application and VMware execute Java application have a VMware tab The values you enter in the VMware tab determine virtual machine configuration settings Once configured you can start and attach to applications in virtual machines from the Eclipse Debug and Run menus Use Application Configurations to Start Applications in
593. ugh you can have multiple Workstation windows the windows operate in a single Workstation process which saves memory and allows preferences and Favorites list items to be shared Optional On Linux hosts if you want to run separate Workstation processes in different X servers start the second instance of Workstation with the W flag In a terminal window enter the following command VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines vmware W amp 3 Start one or more virtual machines in each Workstation window If you have a virtual machine running in one window and you want to run that virtual machine in another Workstation window be sure to close the virtual machine in the first window before attempting to open it in another 4 Drag each Workstation window to the monitor on which you want to use it 5 To switch mouse and keyboard input from the virtual machine on the first screen to the virtual machine on the second screen move the mouse pointer from one to the other and click inside the second screen If you changed the defaults you might need to press Ctrl Alt to release the mouse pointer from the first virtual machine Fitting the Workstation Console to the Virtual Machine Display The Autofit and Fit commands in the View menu allow you to match the Workstation console with the guest operating system display size With both Autofit commands toggled off Workstation does not automatically match window s
594. ultiple monitor 160 162 switching virtual machines 158 Display tab in preferences editor 163 distributing packages 426 430 DMZ 245 DNS 293 DNS setup issues troubleshooting 453 domain join remote setting up 420 domain setting in instance customization package settings 417 domain problem with domain validation or name resolution 453 domain problem with logging in after revert to installed 453 downgrading virtual machines 57 downloading Microsoft Sysprep deployment tools 417 drag and drop 175 494 dragging and dropping files between host and guest 175 drive supported in host 27 driver SCSI 343 sound 311 drivers video in older versions of Windows 107 drives See also disk tape 343 dual boot computers and virtual machines 231 dual monitor display 160 162 DVD adding drive to virtual machine 227 legacy emulation mode for 228 optical supported 27 DVD package delivery 430 dynamic domain name service 285 VMware Inc Index E Eclipse installing the Workstation plug in for 42 education services 23 EHCI controller 34 EM64T processor 27 38 encryption ACE instance protection 414 package protection 414 package setting 414 enhanced keyboard filter 396 enhanced virtual keyboard 324 Ethernet adapter adding to virtual machine 268 forteams 256 promiscuous mode on a Linux host 292 virtual network adapters 260 Ethernet switches 35 expiration policy 382 F Favorites list creatin
595. upplies the name of the VPN profile and the credentials for logging in to the VPN server The example uses the password placeholder variable but you could also use a static password for the VPN account A static password included in a script is sent in clear text 421 VMware ACE Administrator s Manual 422 10 11 Save the bat file on the C drive of the guest s file system In Workstation select the ACE enabled virtual machine and choose VM gt ACE gt Deployment Settings Select Workgroup or Domain In the settings panel select Domain and specify a user name for an account that has permission to add computers to the domain If the ACE enabled virtual machine is managed passwords and commands are stored on the ACE Management Server If the ACE enabled virtual machine is standalone passwords and commands are stored with the package Be sure to use encryption for the package Select Enable Remote Domain Join Specify the password for logging in to the VPN server You can then use the password placeholder variable in the Command text box to refer to this password Enter the command that executes the script For example if you name the bat script vpn bat and want to use the password placeholder variable enter the following command C vpn bat password If you use a password placeholder variable password in the Command field the placeholder variable is resolved and replaced with the value from the Pa
596. ur host operating system is using you can encounter various problems In some cases for example the colors in the guest are not correct In others the guest operating system is not able to use a graphical interface VMware Inc 307 Workstation User s Manual You can try either of the following solutions m Increase the number of colors available on the host as described in Changing Screen Color Depth on the Host on page 308 m Decrease the number of colors used in the guest as described in Changing Screen Color Depth in the Virtual Machine on page 308 For best performance use the same number of colors in the guest and on the host Changing Screen Color Depth on the Host If you choose to change the color settings on your host operating system shut down all guest operating systems power off the virtual machines and close Workstation Follow standard procedures for changing the color settings on your host operating system and then restart Workstation and the virtual machines Changing Screen Color Depth in the Virtual Machine If you choose to change the color settings in the guest operating system the approach you take depends on the guest operating system Follow the normal process for changing screen colors in your guest operating system m Ina Windows guest the Display Properties control panel offers only those settings that are supported m Ina Linux or FreeBSD guest you must change the color dep
597. users to take a snapshot of the ACE instance either when the instance is running or immediately after powering it off You can also enable them to delete that user snapshot User snapshots enable the user to return the virtual machine to a known stable state User snapshots can be taken reverted to and deleted without affecting the reimage snapshot Only one user snapshot can be saved at a time If you enable user snapshot options commands for the options appear in the VMware Player gt Snapshot menu NOTE You can not take snapshots of a Pocket ACE instance For more about Pocket ACEs see Chapter 23 Pocket ACE on page 435 398 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player Setting Administrator Mode Policies You can use the administrator mode policy to set an administrative password so that you can do any of the following Run the ACE instance on the user s machine and enter administrator mode to access the virtual machine settings and make changes to the instance s configuration on Windows systems only You can only edit the settings You cannot add or remove virtual hardware devices Run the ACE instance on the user s machine and enter administrative mode to access all the snapshot commands See Setting Snapshot Policies on page 398 Use the vmware acetool command line program on an ACE user s system to fix a limited set of problems for standalone ACE instances Use
598. ut only receives it If however routing services are running because they are to supply routing information you need to configure them so they do not advertise routes to the host only network The version of routed that comes with many distributions of Linux has no support for specifying that an interface should not be advertised Consult the routed 8 manual page for your system in case you have a more contemporary version of the software For gated configuration is involved You need to explicitly exclude the vmnet1 interface from any protocol activity If you need to run virtual machines on a host only network on a multihomed system where gated is used and have problems doing so please contact VMware technical support by submitting a support request on the VMware web site VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking Potential Issues with Host Only Networking on Linux The following are common issues you might encounter when you are configuring a host only network DHCPD on the Linux Host Does Not Work After Installing Workstation If you were running the DHCP server program dhcpd on your machine before installing Workstation it probably was configured to respond to DHCP requests from clients on any network interface present on the machine When host only networking is configured an additional network interface vmnet1 is marked up and available for use and dhcpd might notice this In such cases some dhcpd i
599. ut preferences Select the Enable check box and select the actions you want to restrict If this is the first time administrative lockout options are being set specify a password in the fields provided Click OK The settings are saved Removing a Forgotten Password If you cannot remember the password and need to remove it you must uninstall Workstation Be sure to click Yes when asked if you want to remove the administrative lockout settings After you reinstall Workstation you can enable the administrative lockout features and set a new password Restricting the User Interface 352 To enable the restricted user interface a user must have sufficient privileges to edit the virtual machine s configuration file and to set file permissions The restricted user interface affects only the specific virtual machines for which the setting is created The following changes occur when you enable the restricted user interface The toolbar is always hidden All functions on the VM gt Power menu are disabled All functions on the VM gt Snapshot menu and snapshot functions on the toolbar are disabled No access is provided to the virtual machine settings editor VM gt Settings from the VMware Workstation window The user cannot change virtual networking settings Edit gt Virtual Network Settings VMware Inc Chapter 19 Special Purpose Configuration Options for Windows Hosts m The user starts the virtual machine by
600. ut using Virtual Disk Manager Using Dual Boot Computers with Virtual Machines Some users install Workstation on a dual boot or multiple boot computer so that they can run one or more of the existing operating systems in a virtual machine For more information about using dual boot computers with Workstation see the VMware Dual Boot Computers and Virtual Machines technical note Legacy Virtual Disks You have several options for using Workstation 6 in a mixed environment with virtual machines that were created with earlier versions of Workstation or created with other VMware products Following is a brief summary of feature compatibility between various virtual hardware versions of Workstation VMware Inc 231 Workstation User s Manual m A Workstation 6 x virtual machine supports all Workstation 6 x features but is compatible with a limited number of other VMware products m A Workstation 5 virtual machine is compatible with VMware Server 1 x ESX Server 3 x and VMware Player 1 x Workstation versions 5 5 and later support 64 bit guest operating systems m A Workstation 4 virtual machine is compatible with VMware GSX Server 3 x ESX Server 2 x and ACE 1 0 For more compatibility information see the VMware Virtual Machine Mobility Planning Guide You can use Workstation 6 to power on virtual machines created with any of the product versions in this list However many new features of Workstation are not available in o
601. ver for 32 Bit Windows XP Guests To use SCSI devices in a 32 bit Windows XP virtual machine you need a special SCSI driver available from the Download page of the VMware Web site Follow the instructions on the Web site to install the driver VMware Inc 343 Workstation User s Manual Install the BusLogic Driver in a Windows NT 4 0 Guests Generic SCSI devices use the virtual Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 compatible host bus adapter provided by the virtual machine On Windows NT 4 0 you might need to install the driver manually if it is not already installed for a virtual SCSI disk Do so before you add a generic SCSI device Before you begin have your Windows NT installation CD available To install the BusLogic driver in a Windows NT 4 0 guest 1 To open the SCSI Adapters control panel choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt SCSI Adapters 2 On the Drivers tab click Add 3 In the list of vendors on the left select BusLogic 4 Inthe list of drivers on the right select BusLogic MultiMaster PCI SCSI Host Adapters and click OK 5 Insert the Windows NT CD when you are prompted and click OK 6 Reboot when you are prompted Avoiding Concurrent Access on Linux Hosts The SCSI generic driver sets up a mapping for each SCSI device in dev Each entry starts with sg for the SCSI generic driver followed by a letter For example dev sg0 is the first generic SCSI device Each entry corresponds to a SCSI device in the or
602. vers For a match to occur all specified conditions must be met VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player m All zone conditions except the domain condition allow users to specify a list of addresses The match is made if the host s address matches any of the address list entries in a specified condition When the host connects to a network a check is performed to determine whether the network matches the conditions for a zone The checking starts with the topmost zone in the table and continues down the table until a match is made or the Everywhere Else zone is reached When a match is made the zone checking stops and filter rules for that zone are applied There are trade offs between using shorter and longer lists of conditions If you use a longer list you minimize the chances of a false positive result or a misidentification Minimizing the chance of a false positive result or a misidentification can be important if you are providing an ACE package to someone who connects a host computer to multiple networks at different times If one of the other networks matches the characteristics you define in the zone definition the host and instance access policies are applied even if the host is not connected to your network In some cases however using a longer list might also increase the likelihood that a user could circumvent the detection mechanism For example such an error might be made if y
603. vers Workstation maps X key codes to PC scan codes to correctly identify a key Workstation uses this key code mapping only for local X servers because it cannot tell whether a remote X server is running on a PC or on some other kind of computer In this case you can set a property to tell Workstation to use key code mapping For a description of key code mapping see X Key Codes Compared to Keysyms on page 329 To configure keyboard mapping for a remote X server 1 Power off the virtual machine and close the Workstation window 2 Onthe machine that hosts the virtual machine add one of the following lines to the virtual machine configuration vmx file or to vmware config m If you use an XFree86 based server that Workstation does not recognize as an XFree86 server use the following property VMware Inc 327 Workstation User s Manual 328 3 xkeymap usekeycodeMap TRUE This property tells Workstation to always use key code mapping regardless of server type m If Workstation does recognize the remote server as an XFree86 server use the following property xkeymap usekeycodeMapIfXFree86 TRUE This property tells Workstation to use key code mapping if you are using an XFree86 server even if it is remote Save and close the file Change How a Specific Key Is Mapped If some keys on the keyboard do not work correctly in a virtual machine you can set a property that makes a modification to the ma
604. vert to one at power off 1 Select the virtual machine The virtual machine can be either powered on or powered off 2 Choose VM gt Settings The virtual machine settings editor opens 3 Click the Options tab and select Snapshot Replay 4 Select an option in the When powering off section Just power off Powers off without making any changes to snapshots Revert to snapshot Reverts to the parent snapshot of the current state of the virtual machine that is the parent snapshot of the You Are Here position in the Snapshot Manager window An instructor might use this setting to discard student answers for a computer lesson when a virtual machine is powered off at the end of class Take a new snapshot Takes a snapshot of the virtual machine state after it is powered off This is useful to preserve milestones automatically The snapshot appears in the snapshot manager The name of this snapshot is the date and time the virtual machine was powered off The description is Automatic snapshot created when powering off Ask me Prompts you every time you power off a virtual machine choose to power off revert or take a snapshot 5 Click OK Snapshots and Workstation 4 Virtual Machines Workstation 4 virtual machines do not support multiple snapshots For full Workstation 6 functionality you must upgrade See Change the Version of the Virtual Machine on page 57 If your Workstation 4 virtual machine h
605. vmtm file On Linux hosts X toolkit options can be passed as arguments although some of them most notably the size and title of the VMware Workstation window cannot be overridden X toolkit options are not relevant on a Windows host Using Startup Options in a Windows Shortcut The most convenient way to use the startup options is to incorporate them into the command generated by a Windows shortcut To create the shortcut right click the shortcut and click Properties In the Target field add any switches you want to use after the vmware exe filename For example the 456 VMware Inc Appendix A Workstation Command Line Reference following command launches the Windows Me virtual machine specified powers it on and switches to full screen mode C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Programs vmware exe X C Documents and Settings lt username gt My Documents My Virtual Machines Windows Me Windows Me vmx Enclose the entire command string in quotation marks NOTE The configuration file has a vmx extension by default Command Line Application for Operating Virtual Machines VMware Workstation includes a separate application vmrun for operating teams or virtual machines from the command line Before using the vmrun command ona Windows host you must do one of the following m Change your working directory to the VMware Workstation directory The default location is c Program Files VMw
606. vmware config pl The installer places vmware config pl in usr bin If usr bin is not in your default path run the program with the following command usr bin vmware config pl Run vmware config pl After you run the installer to perform a fresh installation or an upgrade you need to run vmware config pl If you have not already done so open a terminal window and become root before performing the following procedure To run vmware config pl 1 Use the following command to start the program if necessary vmware config pl NOTE Workstation includes precompiled drivers for many types of Linux kernels but not all If you have any problems after running vmware config pl when you attempt to launch Workstation open a terminal window and run vmware config pl again this time with the compile option vmware config pl compile VMware Inc 47 Workstation User s Manual 2 Respond to the prompts In most cases the default response is appropriate Take the following considerations into account m Ifyou have Eclipse installed and want to install Workstation s Integrated Virtual Debugger for Eclipse enter Yes when prompted The default is No m Ifyou want to install the Integrated Virtual Debugger for Eclipse when you are prompted to install the VIX API and accept its license agreement do so The debugger cannot run without the VIX API If the configuration program does not display a message saying the configurat
607. vmx file The user sees no immediate indication when the virtual machine starts but the user can switch to the virtual machine with its direct switch key or with the cycle key To power on the virtual machine and pass additional information to the virtual machine use one or more of the options vmware fullIlscreen poweron s variable value name lt alias gt directkey lt keyspec gt fullscreen lt config_file gt When you use these optional switches the poweron switch is required and must be the first switch after the vmware fullscreen command Provide the full path to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file at the end of the command line Enter the complete command on one line Use the following optional switches to a s Passa variable name and value to be used in configuring the virtual machine You can include multiple lt variable gt lt value gt pairs in the command Each lt variable gt lt value gt pair must be preceded by s b name lt alias gt Give a name to the virtual machine You can the use that alias in switchto and poweroff commands c directkey lt keyspec gt Specify the virtual machine s direct switch key If a direct switch key is specified in the virtual machine s configuration file the command line overrides the configuration file d fullscreen without poweron Start a virtual machine and go straight to full screen switch mode The virtual machine ta
608. w key host under HKCU Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion InternetSettings ZoneMap Domains 3 Inthe host key create anew DWORD Value called file and set its value to 1 Installing the Microsoft NET Framework to Support Managed Applications To debug managed C C and Visual Basic applications which use the Common Language Runtime you must install the Microsoft NET Framework version 2 0 or higher on the guest operating system Rename Virtual Machine Computer Names Verify that the computer names are unique on all virtual machines otherwise the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger cannot find the appropriate virtual machine on the network To rename a computer 1 On the guest system choose Start gt Control Panel gt System 2 Select the Computer Name tab 3 Click Change 4 Type a unique name and click OK Installing the Remote Debug Monitor Manually on Windows 98 Guest Systems To enable debugging in a virtual machine the Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger shares the host folder that contains the Remote Debug Monitor and runs that Remote Debug Monitor on the guest On Windows 98 it is not possible to run the Remote Debug Monitor or any executable from a shared folder An attempt to do so generates the following error The remote debugger is not properly installed On a Windows ME or Windows 98 computer the debugger cannot be run off a file share Run the remote debugger setup VMware Inc
609. want to use the adapter and click OK Click OK to close the virtual network editor Set up a Second Host Only Network on a Linux Host To set up a second host only network on a Linux host 1 VMware Inc As root su run the Workstation configuration program usr bin vmware config pl When you see the following prompt enter yes Do you want to be able to use host only networking in your virtual machines The wizard reports on host only networks that you have already set up on the host or if none is present configures the first host only network When you see the following prompt enter yes Do you wish to configure another host only network Repeat this step until you have as many host only networks as you want and then enter no Complete the remaining steps in the wizard When it is finished it restarts all services used by Workstation Run ifconfig 287 Workstation User s Manual At least four network interfaces appear eth0 lo vmnet1 and vmnet2 If the vmnet interfaces do not show up immediately wait for a minute and run the command again These four interfaces should have different IP addresses on separate subnets Configuring the Host Only Virtual Machines 288 Now you have two host only interfaces vmnetl and vmnet2 You are ready to set up your virtual machines for one of the following configurations Configuration 1 The virtual machine is configured with one virtual network adapter and
610. wav file 310 window autofit 163 fit 163 window size 165 Windows 32 bit guest operating systems 36 64 bit guest operating systems 36 uninstalling on Windows host 44 upgrading on Windows host 53 upgrading to Windows Vista 54 VMware Tools for 106 Windows 95 sound driver 311 Windows 98 sound driver 311 Windows NT SCSI driver for guest 344 sound driver 311 Windows Server 2003 SCSI driver for guest 343 Windows XP SCSI driver for guest 343 wizard New Package 426 New Team 246 New Virtual Machine 75 92 94 496 Workspace tab in preferences editor 77 workspaces location of 77 switching in Linux guest 325 Workstation checking for updates for 74 serial number for 42 starting 61 519 Workstation User s Manual 520 X X server and keyboard mapping 327 X toolkit options 456 xFree86 and keyboard mapping 327 Z zip drives disconnecting 341 on a parallel port 314 VMware Inc
611. work adapter NIC If an item in the list is disabled the adapter is not available because it is already being used to bridge to another vmnet m Ifyou want to specify one host network adapter use the Bridge to list box 6 Click Save to save your changes and close the virtual network editor Changing the Subnet or DHCP Settings for a Virtual Network On Windows and Linux hosts you can use the virtual network editor to make changes to subnet and DHCP settings Change Subnet or DHCP Settings on a Windows Host To change subnet or DHCP settings on a Windows host 1 From the Workstation menu bar choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings 2 Click the Host Virtual Network Mapping tab 272 VMware Inc 3 4 VMware Inc Chapter 15 Configuring a Virtual Network Click the button on the right that corresponds to the virtual network you want to configure virtual Network Editor x Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT r Use this page to associate individual virtual networks to specific physical and virtual network T adapters as well as change their settings ViMnetO Bridged to an automatically chosen adapter E VMnett JP VMware Network Adapter met AE sunet VMnet2 Notbidged OO 2 aa VMnet3 Notbided s lt lt s is wY gt VMneta Notbided O gt YMnet5 Notbided 0 gt VMnet amp Notbidged OO
612. x the record options are located in the toolbar Figure 13 1 Windows Record Control Dialog Box F Recording A x Length 00 00 32 Size 585 1MB m Stop Stops the recording that is in progress m Add Marker Takes a replay specific snapshot at the current location within the recording You can use this marker during replay to skip ahead in a recording m Minimize On Windows the button minimizes the record control dialog box to the lower left side of the status bar The minimized control allows you to work on your virtual machine and use the controls in the status bar to either stop a recording or add a marker NOTE Keep in mind that you cannot close the record control dialog box 236 VMware Inc Chapter 13 Recording and Replaying Virtual Machine Activity Replay Control Dialog Box Features The replay control dialog box appears when you replay a recording Figure 13 2 Windows Replay Control Dialog Box Current Replay Position Slider 5 Windows XP Professional Recording 2 Replay Speed Go to Previous Marker Go to Next Marker Control Figure 13 3 Linux Replay Control Dialog Box Current Replay Position Slider Auto scroll Control Windows XP Professiona Replay Replaying Recording 1 a a D gt Add Marker Go Live D gt 3 53 15 30 NN m The replay control dialog box contains the
613. x Guests For Linux guests the following considerations apply to display resizing If you have virtual machines that were suspended under a version of VMware Tools before version 5 5 display resizing will not work until the virtual machines are completely powered off and powered on again Rebooting the guest operating system is not sufficient Update VMware Tools to the latest version in the guest for the display resizing options to work Before you can use the Autofit Guest and Fit Guest Now options VMware Tools must be running All the restrictions on resizing that the X11 Windows system imposes on physical hosts apply to guests m You cannot resize to a mode that is not defined The VMware Tools configuration script can add a large number of mode lines but you cannot get 1 pixel granularity as in Windows VMware Tools adds modelines in 100 pixel increments This means you cannot resize a guest larger than the largest mode defined in your X11 configuration file If you attempt to resize larger a black border appears and the guest stops growing m The X server always starts up in the largest resolution that is defined This cannot be avoided The XDM KDM GDM login screen always appears at the largest size But both Gnome and KDE allow you to specify your preferred resolution so you can reduce the guest display size after you log in Considerations for Display Resizing in Solaris Guests For Solaris 10 guests the following con
614. y enter a specification when you boot your system Consult your operating system documentation for details on the method to use with your particular distribution Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine 282 When a virtual machine is powered on Workstation assigns each of its virtual network adapters an Ethernet MAC media access control address A MAC address is the unique address assigned to each Ethernet network device The software guarantees that virtual machines are assigned unique MAC addresses within a given host system The virtual machine is assigned the same MAC address every time it is powered on if both of the following conditions are true m The virtual machine is not moved That is the path name and filename for the virtual machine s configuration file remain the same m Nochanges are made to certain settings in the configuration file VMware Inc Chapter 16 Advanced Virtual Networking However Workstation cannot guarantee to automatically assign unique MAC addresses for virtual machines that run on multiple host systems Avoiding MAC Address Changes To avoid changes in the MAC address automatically assigned to a virtual machine do not move the virtual machine s configuration file Moving it to a different host computer or even moving it to a different location on the same host computer changes the MAC address Also do not change certain settings in the virtual machine s configuration
615. y has a different host policy file installation of the new package fails 384 VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player V CAUTION Host policy settings might conflict with settings in certain other software running on the host computer such as software firewalls For information on configuring software on the host computer to avoid these conflicts see the technical note VMware ACE Technical Note Host Software and Advanced Network Quarantine A host policy is in effect even when no ACE instances are running The policy starts immediately after installation and starts working every time the host system boots Any restrictions on the host s network access also restrict network access for an ACE instance that uses NAT networking because the NAT connection is affected by all the policies you apply to the host If you set up restricted host access by using the ruleset and rules editors rather than the Network Access wizard configure the ACE enabled virtual machine s virtual NICs to use bridged networking If you are setting up a managed ACE enabled virtual machine you must allow the host to access the ACE Management Server communicating through TCP over the appropriate port that you configure Host policies do not apply to Pocket ACE instances If you specify a restricted host policy for an ACE enabled virtual machine and then attempt to create a Pocket ACE package with that ACE ena
616. y will run on Linux hosts You also cannot test a host policy in preview mode NOTE This test might take a long time because packaging and encryption processes can be lengthy Before you begin if you plan to use an ACE Management Server to manage the ACE instances install and configure a test ACE Management Server See the VMware ACE Management Server User s Guide To perform an end to end deployment test 1 If you use the ACE Management Server select the ACE enabled virtual machine choose File gt Connect to ACE Management Server and connect to the test server In the virtual machine s summary view click Create new package in the Commands list Complete the New Package wizard Navigate to the package location and copy the package directory to a client test machine On the client test machine run the ACE instance s setup exe file and complete the pages of the installation wizard Depending on how you configured the package a Start menu item or a desktop shortcut or both are created on the client machine Depending on the runtime preferences you set the ACE instance might start in full screen mode when the host system starts Start the ACE instance and activate it when prompted Verify that the ACE instance is configured as you intended and runs as you expect If you use the ACE Management Server connect the ACE enabled virtual machine to the production server On the administrator machine in Workstation
617. you select a source type from the drop down list the text below the list changes to describe which types of virtual machines are included in that source type As you proceed through the wizard the navigation pane on the left side of the wizard helps track your progress Whenever you start a new phase or step a list expands to display the names of the wizard pages included in that step When you complete an entire step the next step expands To go back to a previous page click its name in the navigation pane VMware Inc Getting Started with Virtual Machines This chapter includes the following topics Starting a Virtual Machine on page 149 Shut Down a Virtual Machine on page 152 Delete a Virtual Machine on page 153 Controlling the Display on page 154 Install New Software in a Virtual Machine on page 165 Use Removable Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 166 Using VNC for Remote Connections to a Virtual Machine on page 167 Set Up Appliance View for a Virtual Machine on page 169 Create a Screenshot of a Virtual Machine on page 171 Create and Play Back a Movie of a Virtual Machine on page 171 Advanced Options for Application Developers on page 173 Starting a Virtual Machine Starting a virtual machine means displaying its running console so that you can interact with it Depending on the situation starting a virtual machine can involve any of the follow
618. you use an ACE Management Server with Active Directory the controls in the Activation section enable you to open the Active Directory Users and Groups dialog box The machine on which Workstation runs must be in the same domain that the ACE Management Server is configured for User list changes are effective at the next startup of the instance If you do not use Active Directory or if you are creating standalone ACE instances the settings panel includes the following options for activation passwords or keys None No password or key is required Any user can activate this instance Password The user must enter the password that the administrator uses to activate this ACE instance You must provide the user with the password through email or other means For standalone ACE enabled virtual machines you set the password during the packaging process Activation key This option is available if you use ACE Management Server without Active Directory integration You specify one or more keys and the end user must enter a key that is in that list Activation keys are serial numbers free form strings that can be tracked as used or unused by the server You can enter the keys or import them from a text file VMware Inc Chapter 21 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player To import keys you need a text file that contains the list of activation tokens Each token is one line in the file Blank lines are ignored A
619. your name and password just as you would on a physical computer You can add the name of the virtual machine to the Favorites list so that you do not need to browse to the file to open the virtual machine See Favorites List in the Sidebar on page 72 Start a Virtual Machine That Is Running in the Background If you do not power off a virtual machine when you exit Workstation the virtual machine continues running in the background To start the virtual machine use the power status icon on the host to open the virtual machine s console By default Workstation is configured to display a power status icon in the notification area of the host s taskbar even when Workstation is not running If this icon is not visible before you begin use the Workspace tab of the Workstation preferences editor to display it See Introduction to Workstation Preferences on page 76 VMware Inc Chapter 8 Getting Started with Virtual Machines To start a virtual machine that is running in the background 1 Click the power status icon in the notification area of the host s taskbar 2 Click the tooltip that appears to display a list of the virtual machines List of powered on virtual machines Team QA VMs Windows XP Professional Wks 6 E 6 56 pm Power status icon This list contains the virtual machines and teams that belong to the logged in user 3 Click the machine you want to open Workstation star
620. ystem Edition Linux 32 and 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 5 Beta formerly called 4 0 Update 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 0 updates 1 2 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 0 updates 1 2 3 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 0 updates 1 2 3 4 Red Hat Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 20 8 upgrade 2 4 20 20 9 Ubuntu Linux 6 10 and 6 06 NOTE Windows 64 bit host operating systems are not currently supported Supported JRE Versions The host system must be running a JRE meeting Java 2 Platform Standard Edition J2SE 5 0 or higher specifications J2SE consists of the JRE and developer tools for compiling debugging and running applications written in the Java language NOTE Eclipse displays the error message unable to load class if an unsupported version of J2SE is being used on the host system Eclipse Requirements You must have Eclipse 3 2 or 3 3 installed on the host On Windows Vista hosts you must have Eclipse 3 2 2 or 3 3 installed The Java language is supported You cannot have GNU Compiler for the java programming language GCJ installed on the guest operating system Virtual Machine Requirements The Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger is supported on any Workstation 6 5 virtual machine that is running a supported Windows or Linux guest operating system Supported Guest Operating Systems This section provides a simplified list of guest operating systems supported for debugging in vi

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