[PLUG] VMWare

[Jim Webb]

I see from their site that this is what the virtual system appears as:

Virtual Machine Specifications

Each virtual machine created with VMware Workstation 3.2 provides a platform
that includes the following devices that your guest operating system can
see.


Processor

Same processor as that on host computer
Single processor per virtual machine on symmetric multiprocessor systems

Chip Set

Intel 440BX-based motherboard with NS338 SIO chip

BIOS

PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6

Memory

Up to 1GB, depending on host memory
Maximum of 1GB total available for all virtual machines

Graphics

VGA and SVGA support

IDE Drives

Up to four devices - disks, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (DVD drives can be used to
read data DVD-ROM discs; DVD video is not supported)
Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks
IDE virtual disks up to 128GB
CD-ROM can be a physical device or an ISO image file

SCSI Devices

Up to seven devices
SCSI virtual disks up to 256GB
Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks
Generic SCSI support allows devices to be used without need for drivers in
the host OS
Works with scanners, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, tape drives and other SCSI devices

Mylex® (BusLogic) BT-958 compatible host bus adapter (requires add-on driver
from VMware for Windows XP and Windows .NET Server)

Floppy Drives

Up to two 1.44MB floppy devices
Physical drives or floppy image files

Serial (COM) Ports

Up to four serial (COM) ports
Output to serial ports, Windows or Linux files, or named pipes

Parallel (LPT) Ports

Up to two bidirectional parallel (LPT) ports
Output to parallel ports or host operating system files

USB ports

Two-port USB 1.1 controller
Supports devices including USB printers, scanners, PDAs, hard disk drives,
memory card readers and still digital cameras

Keyboard

104-key Windows 95/98 enhanced

Mouse and Drawing Tablets

PS/2 mouse
Serial tablets supported

Ethernet Card

Up to three virtual Ethernet cards
AMD PCnet-PCI II compatible

Sound

Sound output and input
Creative Labs Sound Blaster® 16, PCM sound compatible (MIDI sound, game
controllers and joysticks not supported.)

Virtual Networking and File Sharing

Nine virtual Ethernet switches (three reserved for bridged, host-only and
NAT networking)
Virtual Ethernet support includes TCP/IP, NetBEUI, Microsoft Networking,
Samba, Novell® NetWare® and Network File System
Built-in NAT supports client software using TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, HTTP and
Telnet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Shannon C. Dealy
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 11:09 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] VMWare
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Jim Webb wrote:
>
> > Russ,
> >
> > When I looked for my video card, it didn't show up.  I have an
> xtasy which
> > uses nvidia geforce 2 ti.  I installed an nvidia geforce 2 generic since
> > there wasn't a geforce2 ti.
> >
> > I'm a little confused by the virtual nature here.  I also chose
> not to have
> > a firewall setup.  I'm basically flying by the seat of my pants here.
> [snip]
>
> You don't understand the nature of a virtual machine, NONE of the real
> hardware on your computer has anything to do with the hardware in your
> virtual machine, you need to think of each VMware virtual machine as
> though it is a completely different piece of physical hardware from the
> host computer.  A virtual machine has it's own virtual devices which
> typically (but not always) behave as though they are one particular
> brand/model of real hardware, regardless of what your host computer
> uses.  If you look at the VMware documentation, you will find a
> description of the hardware that the virtual machine presents to the guest
> operating system.  For the SCSI, IDE, and ethernet adapters, they are
> standard devices (though I don't remember which ones), for the virtual
> display adapter, VMware has done their own implementation and provide
> drivers as part of the VMware tools installation once your guest operating
> system is up and running.
>
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