How virtual Machines (VMware Workstation) are used

The previous article described the introduction of virtual machines, where it continued to understand the role of virtual machines. How to use the virtual machine. We need to have a holistic perceptual understanding of virtual machines from thought to practice.
Here's what the virtual machine does, the virtual machine has the hardware of the PC, including memory, hard disk, Io and so on. So how can the virtual machine be used, we need to install the operating system virtual machine to play a role. How to install the operating system, here in VMware Workstation for example, to tell you, virtual machine use.
One, virtual machine settings and system installation

1. After installation, click New Virtual Machine
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2, directly select the default, click Next to
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3. Click Create a virtual blank hard drive
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4, here to install XP For example, if you want to install other systems, you can choose according to their own needs
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5, set a virtual machine name, easy to separate, as far as possible to a large amount of space on the hard disk, and then give the virtual machine a name
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6, set the CPU information, according to their own CPU model process settings
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7, set virtual memory, virtual machine memory recommended not too small, otherwise the virtual opportunity card, but also not too big, otherwise the real machine will also card
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8, set up the network connection, the bridge is using a separate ip,nat is the IP that uses the real machine
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9, here default can be
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10. Choose to create a new virtual hard disk
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11, if it is XP, try to choose the IDE, and Win7 and other systems can choose SCSI
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12, here is recommended to select a separate disk, and the disk size using the default, you can also set up, I set the 10G
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13. Set up a storage directory for the virtual machine files
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14. Click Finish
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15. Click Edit to optimize the virtual machine settings
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16, there are many formation can not be used to select later, choose to remove, such as floppy disk
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17. CD/DVD, select ISO image file on the right, click Browse, select ISO System file
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18, Virtual machine menu with more, specific functions can be seen
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Second, install VM Tools
1, click on the virtual machine settings, select the optical drive, browse the VMware installation directory Windows.iso
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2. Open My Computer, click the CD-ROM, install VMware Tools
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3. Restart the system after installation, and VMware Tools will be installed after reboot.
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4. After installing VMware Tools, you can copy the actual files directly into the virtual machine, and the files in the virtual machine can be copied to the real machine as well.
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Third, the snapshot function
snapshots are equivalent to a backup that can be quickly restored to the state when the snapshot was created, can be easily understood as ghost, click, Ghost Restore

1. Click Virtual Machine, select snapshot-Create snapshot from current state
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2. After setting a name and description, click Create
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How virtual Machines (VMware Workstation) are used