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
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Index
editing 145
growable 62, 142
independent mode 63
nonpersistent 63
persistent 63
preallocated 62, 142
removing 146
SCSI drivers 63
setting maximum size 142
shrinking 95, 147
shrinking in Netware 96
size 29
storing on physical disks 64, 143
Virtual Disk Manager 149
Virtual Machine Communication
Interface (VMCI) 74
virtual machines
adding CD/DVD drives 151
adding floppy drives 154
adding hard disks 144
adding parallel ports 177
adding serial ports 166
adding sound adapters 165
adding to inventory 108
adding USB controllers 159
and SMP 278
changing guest operating
system 124
changing power settings 109, 125
changing snapshot settings 126
changing the name of 124
choosing datastore location 59
configuration file 325
configuration file location 124, 323
configuration file parameters 129
configuration privileges 314
configuring memory 277
configuring processor count 279
configuring SCSI controllers 159
configuring sound 165
configuring sound adapters 164
console to interact with guest 52, 53
constituent files 323
creating 59
creating virtual disks 62
creating VMware Remote Console
shortcuts 134
creating Web shortcuts 133
default location 59
deleting 108, 130
deleting floppy drives 156
editing CD/DVD drives 152
editing floppy drives 155
editing hard disks 145
editing parallel ports 178
editing serial ports 169
editing sound adapters 165
entering BIOS setup at boot 125
events 57
generating VMware Remote
Console shortcuts 134
generating Web shortcuts 133
hardware specifications 28
hardware version 61, 72
host-wide settings 115
IDE drives in 29
importing 108
installing software in 138
interaction privileges 317
inventory of 108
inventory privileges 319
location 59
log files 323
managing inventory 108
memory settings 61
menu options 54
performing disk maintenance 147
platform specifications 28