VMWare WorkStation

• VMWare Workstation is a desktop product.
• We can not install VmWare Workstation and VMWare Server on the same system.
• Default interfaces for VMWare workstation are vmnet1 and vmnet8.
• when we create vm we have two option
1. Typical
2. Custom
• when we select custom then it asks what type of network it is
  
  
  1. Bridging
  2. NAT
  3. Host Only
  4. Custom
  Bridging : Every thing is communicated through default local area network.  
  
  NAT : which uses vmnet8 interface.
  
  
  • NAT is default.

Host Only : which uses vmnet1 interface.

Custom: Manually set the interfaces.

• in virtual machine 2 types of hard disks
1. Thin Provisional
2. Thick Provisional
Thin Provisional 
• Hard disk dynamically allocated.
Thick Provisional 
• Reserved Memory.