Using USB HD With VMware Player 3v.2

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Using VMware Player 3.0 with

USB Pocket Hard DriveFor IT Curriculum


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Salient Features

Virtual machines stored on the USB Portable Hard Drive can be carried from onecomputer to another as long as the same hypervisor is available on all computers

Multiple different operating systems can run concurrently on the host system(within the processing capacity of the physical machine)

All virtual machines on the same computer can be networked to perform variousfunctions

A master copy of the virtual machine can be kept to provide instantaneousrecovery of a corrupted system


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How Does It Work?

The hypervisor (VMware Player) is a software thatcreates a virtual environment in the operating systemrunning on the computer

The virtual environment emulates the hardwareenvironment of the physical machine

The guest operating system operates through therunning hypervisor, accessing all the physicalresources of the computer through the virtualenvironment


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How Does It Work? Contd

The installed virtual machine is saved on the selected harddrive (the USB Portable Hard Drive in our case) as if it is anapplication

To run the virtual machine, the hypervisor must be runningin the host system to allow the guest system to belaunched

When the guest system is up and running, the host andguest operating systems are sharing the physical resources(e.g., memory, CPU processing power, etc.), which affectsthe performance of all running systems accordingly


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Native Installation vs. Virtual Machine

Feature

Installation Method

Native

(Internal Hard Drive)

Virtual Machine

(External Hard Drive)

Hypervisor required No Yes

(VMware Player 3.0 in our case)

Partitioning/Formatting of

Physical Hard Drive

Yes

(e.g., NTFS for Windows or ext3

for Linux)

Not on the physical hard drive

(only to the hard drive space

allocated to the virtual machine)MBR of the Physical Hard

Drive

Yes No (only done to the virtual

hard drive)

OS / Hardware Interaction Direct with maximum

performance

Sharing with other running

operating systems (host and

guest)

Portability Only runs on the computer it is

installed

Can be moved from one

computer to another as long as

the hypervisor is installed on

the computer

Running Instances on the

Computer

The only running operating

system on a computer at anygiven time

Multiple operating systems can

run concurrently


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Preparing for

Creating a Virtual Machine

The only difference isin preparing the

computer* and thehypervisor or thephysical hard drive.

InstallingOperatingSystem

Configure

CD Drive

Properties*

and VMware

Player

InstallingOperatingSystem

Virtualm

achineInstallatio

n

Nativeinstallation

Partition

Hard

Drive

*For creating the virtual machine, the advanced configuration for the CD/DVDdrive on the physical computer must be set to Legacy Operation to allow recognition

by the OS installation process through VMware Player

Installation procedures

of the OS are very

similar between virtual

machine and native

installation


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Creating a Virtual Fedora 12

Browse the Start Menu to

open VMware Player 3.0


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Select

Create a New Virtual

Machine


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Select the correct CD/DVD

drive on the computer

(Do NOT select the virtual CD

drive that comes with the USB

hard drive)


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Select Linux and drop

down the list to select

Red Hat Linux

(as Fedora is not in the

list but Red Hat will workfor Fedora)


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Fill the information in

this section and click

Next


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Select the desired

directory on the USB

Hard Drive as the

location to save thevirtual machine.

Put in the name

for the virtual

machine being

created


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Creating a Virtual Fedora 12Recommended space

should be sufficientunless you anticipate

to add a lot of

applications to the OS

You may chose to save the

virtual disk in a single file,but separating it into

smaller chunks makes it

easier to copy and move

around different computers


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You may chose to customize

the hardware environment,but the default setting is

adequate for most of our

learning purposes for the

course


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Use Arrow key

to select.

Do NOT click this

box until the entire

installation is

complete!

Follow these

instructions for

input between

the host and

virtual systems


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Use the Arrow keyon the keyboard to

select the button

and Enter to

proceed


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Use Arrow key on the

keyboard to select and

Enter to proceed


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Use the Arrow key on

the keyboard to

highlight the correct

choices and Enter to

proceed


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Use Arrow key to select thisbutton and Enter to proceed


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Prior to this screen, correct

packages must selected for the

actual installation. Follow

instructions in specific courses

for the selection of software

packages.


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Enter to reboot the

virtual machine.

Do not reboot the

physical machine!


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Select the user name

created during the

installation to log on


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Use the password created

during installation


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Virtual XP and Fedora already up and Server 2003 still launching

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