2.0
Table Of Contents
- VMware Server User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction and System Requirements
- VMware Server Product Benefits
- New Features of VMware Server 2.0
- Web-Based Interface
- VMware Remote Console
- Increased Memory Support
- Increase in Number of Network Adapters Supported
- Quiesced Backups of Virtual Machines on Windows
- Support for High-Speed USB 2.0 Devices
- Additional Host Operating System Support
- Additional Guest Operating System Support
- Improved 64-Bit Guest Support
- 64-Bit Sound Driver
- Native 64-Bit Host Support on Linux
- Updated VIX API
- VMCI Sockets Interface
- About the Host and Guest Computers
- Host System Requirements
- VI Web Access and VMware Remote Console Client System Requirements
- Virtual Machine Specifications
- Supported Guest Operating Systems
- Windows 64-Bit Operating Systems
- Windows 32-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Linux 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Linux 32-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Sun Solaris 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Sun Solaris 32-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Novell NetWare 32-Bit Guest Operating System
- Processor Support for 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Installing VMware Server
- Installation Prerequisites
- Installing VMware Server on a Windows Host
- Uninstalling VMware Server on a Windows Host
- Installing VMware Server on a Linux Host
- Configuring VMware Server on a Linux Host Using vmware-config.pl
- Uninstalling VMware Server on a Linux Host
- Upgrading from VMware Server 1
- Where to Go Next
- Learning VMware Server Basics: Using VI Web Access
- Creating and Upgrading Virtual Machines
- Before You Create a Virtual Machine
- Using the New Virtual Machine Wizard
- Installing the Guest Operating System
- Updating the Guest Operating System
- Upgrading the Virtual Machine Version
- Installing and Using VMware Tools
- Components of VMware Tools
- Installing VMware Tools
- Manually Installing VMware Tools in a Windows Guest System
- Configuring the Video Driver on Older Versions of Windows
- Installing VMware Tools in a Linux Guest System
- Installing VMware Tools in a Solaris Guest System
- Installing VMware Tools in a FreeBSD Guest System
- Installing VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest System
- Starting the VMware User Process Manually If You Do Not Use a Session Manager on UNIX
- Updating VMware Tools
- Uninstalling VMware Tools
- Repairing or Changing VMware Tools
- Using the VMware Tools Control Panel
- Customizing VMware Tools
- Using the VMware Tools Command-Line Interface
- Managing VMware Server
- Running Virtual Machines
- Running VMware Tools
- Changing the Power State of a Virtual Machine
- Changing Virtual Machine Name and Guest System Settings
- Changing Virtual Machine Power Settings
- Changing Virtual Machine Snapshot Settings
- Changing Virtual Machine Advanced Settings
- Deleting a Virtual Machine
- Using VMware Remote Console
- Generating and Sharing Virtual Machine Shortcuts
- Editing Notes in the Virtual Machine Summary Tab
- Editing the Hardware Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Adding Hardware to a Virtual Machine
- Installing New Software in a Virtual Machine
- Advanced Options for Application Developers
- Configuring Virtual Machine Hardware
- Configuring Hard Disks
- Configuring CD/DVD Drives
- Configuring Floppy Drives
- Configuring Passthrough (Generic) SCSI Devices
- Configuring SCSI Controllers
- Configuring USB Controllers and Devices
- Configuring Sound
- Configuring Serial Ports
- Configuring Parallel Ports
- Keyboard Mapping on Linux Hosts
- Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine
- Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines
- Using Snapshots
- What to Use Snapshots For
- What Is Captured by a Snapshot
- Activities That Conflict with Snapshots
- Enabling and Disabling Background Snapshots for All Virtual Machines
- Snapshots and a Virtual Machine’s Hard Disks
- Excluding Virtual Disks from Snapshots
- Taking a Snapshot
- Reverting to a Snapshot
- Removing a Snapshot
- Locking a Snapshot
- Managing Roles and Permissions
- Configuring a Virtual Network
- Network Basics
- Components of the Virtual Network
- Common Networking Configurations
- Example Custom Networking Configuration
- Changing the Networking Configuration
- Advanced Networking Topics
- Selecting IP Addresses on a Host-Only Network or NAT Configuration
- Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host-Only Network
- Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine
- Controlling Routing for a Host-Only Network on a Linux Host
- Potential Issues with Host-Only Networking on a Linux Host
- Setting Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host
- Configuring Bridged Networking When Using Teamed Network Interface Cards
- Setting Up Two Separate Host-Only Networks
- Routing Between Two Host-Only Networks
- Using Virtual Network Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host
- Understanding NAT
- Using Samba for File Sharing on a Linux Host
- Sample smb.conf for Host-Only Networking
- Sample smb.conf for Bridged Networking
- Adding User Names and Passwords to the VMware Server Samba Password File
- If You Are Already Running Samba
- Using a Samba Server for Both Bridged and Host-Only Networks
- Using VMware Server’s Samba with an Existing Installation
- Sample smb.conf for Running Two Samba Servers at the Same Time
- Using the Virtual Network Editor
- Performance Tuning for VMware Server
- Configuring and Maintaining the Host System
- Allocating Memory to a Virtual Machine
- Editing Virtual Machine Memory
- Using Two-Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing
- Editing Virtual Processors
- Configuring and Maintaining Guest Operating Systems
- Installing Linux Guest Operating Systems in Text Mode
- Selecting the Correct Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools
- Temporarily Disabling Acceleration in the Guest Operating System
- Avoiding Remote Disk Access
- Managing Snapshots and Virtual Disks
- Disabling Debugging Mode
- Disabling CD/DVD Drive Polling
- Disabling Fade Effects in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
- Disabling Visual Effects in Windows 98
- Configuring Swap File Usage in Windows 95 and Windows 98
- Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Windows Server 2003
- Configuring Direct Memory Access (DMA) Disk Settings
- Using DMA in Windows NT Guests on Multiprocessor Host Systems
- Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance on Windows Hosts
- Configuring Clustering on Windows Hosts
- Defined Privileges
- Alarms
- Datacenter
- Datastore
- Extensions
- Folders
- Global
- Host CIM
- Host Configuration
- Host Inventory
- Host Local Operations
- Network
- Performance
- Permissions
- Resource
- Scheduled Task
- Sessions
- Tasks
- Virtual Machine Configuration
- Virtual Machine Interaction
- Virtual Machine Inventory
- Virtual Machine Provisioning
- Virtual Machine State
- Files That Make Up a Virtual Machine
- Glossary
- Index
VMware Server User’s Guide
338 VMware, Inc.
USB controllers 160
virtual machines 108, 130
desktop shortcut for VMware Server 38
device drivers
BusLogic SCSI 63
LSI Logic SCSI 63
VMware Tools 74
devices
configuring SCSI in virtual
machines 156
connecting and disconnecting in
VMware Remote
Console 132
connecting and disconnecting in
VMware Tools 94
disconnecting USB 164
using USB in virtual machines 161
Devices menu
VMware Remote Console 132
Devices tab
VMware Tools 94
DHCP
assigning IP addresses on a virtual
network 230
changing settings 227
configuring in virtual network
editor 269
configuring on a Linux host 231
configuring on a Windows host 231
on a virtual network with NAT 249
server on virtual network 217, 218
servers 214
troubleshooting on a Linux host 236
DHCP tab
in virtual network editor 269
dhcpd 236
dial-up connections 233
direct memory access
See DMA
disconnecting
CD/DVD drives 132
floppy drives 132
floppy image files 132
ISO image files 132
USB devices 164
disk space
required on host computer 24
disks
defragmenting 147
DMA and performance 283
growable 62, 142
IDE drives in virtual machines 29
IDE drives supported in host 24
preallocated 62, 142
SCSI drives in virtual machines
29
SCSI drives supported in host 24
shrinking 147
types supported in host 24
DMA and disk performance 283, 284
DNS 249
drivers
BusLogic SCSI 63
LSI Logic SCSI 63
video, in older versions of
Windows 77
DVD drives
optical drives supported in host 25
supported in virtual machines 150
See also CD/DVD drives
dynamic domain name service 236
E
editing
CD/DVD drives 152
floppy drives 155
generic SCSI devices 158
hard disks 145
network adapters 224