Virtualization & VMware

Virtualization Problem in developing new computer system is operating system for develop the system only compatible with the hardware from same vendor and cannot be implemented in another machines that have different architecture. For example, Windows application binaries will not directly execute on another processor. Virtualization used to eliminates these constraint and enables a much higher degree of portability and flexibility . Virtualization produced by adding software to an execution platform and give it appearance of different platform. Virtual Machine Virtual machine is one of virtualization environment or duplicate of real machine. Virtual machine environment created by Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). VMM reproduces everything from the CPU instruction to the I/O devices in software of operating system which it run on. The underlying operating system is called host operating system, the operating system which runs on VMM is called guest operating system. Host operating system and guest operating system can be the same or different type of operating system. For example, Windows can runs as host operating system and Fedora as guest operating system and vice versa. VMware Workstation VMware is example of a more recent VMM that has been developed. Another close environment which also provides virtualization is called emulator. Difference between emulator and VMM is VMM only let one guest operating system that run on the host system. VMware makes it possible for PC user to use multiple operating system in same PC. User can run multiple OS side by side and by just clicking mouse you can switch to different OS and share files by just drag and drop. VMware also have ability to preserves the state by taking a "snapshot", so user can do testing on virtual machine without worying the system will corrupt. VMware Installation VMware can be downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ Installation

  1. Double click VMware launcher to start the installation wizard.
  2. Click Next.
  3. Choose Typical set up (if you already familiar with VMware you can choose Custom to choose features that you want to instal).
  4. Choose the location for VMware installation.
  5. Configure the sortcut and then click Next.
  6. Click Install to start the installation, this will take several minutes to finish.
  7. Enter the Serial Number for VMware (you can get the serial number inside your VMware folder).
  8. Click Finish to finish the installation.
Creating Disk Image
  1. RunVMware, from Home tab click New Virtual Machine, to open the virtual machine wizard. Image Hosted by UploadHouse.com
  2. Click Next to continue.
  3. Choose Typical configuration, then click Next.
  4. Choose the type of OS to be installed on virtual machine.
  5. Name the virtual machine and specify where the disk image for virtual machine will be stored in hard disk.
  6. For the Network Type select Use host-only Networking.
  7. Specify disk capacity for virtual machine. Initially the size of disk image you created is small and as you installed virtual machine with OS and software, the will increase up to the storage capacity set in this configuration. Select Allocate disk space now and click Finish, this will take several.
  8. Click Close to end the installation wizard.
Installing Windows Server 2003 in virtual machine
  1. Place Windows Server 2003 installer CD in cdroom drive.
  2. From command menu click start the virtual machine or you can click start button on toolbar.
  3. Once virtual machine start booting, you will see windows server 2003 installation page, just follow windows server 2003 installation steps.
  4. After installation finish, you will see windows server 2003 login page.
  5. Click on the console to start using windows server 2003, to get mouse pointer back to host desktop use CTRL + ALT.
  6. To take a snapshot of your OS, just clicking button snapshot on toolbar, use button Revert if anything happened to your OS and choose your previous state.
  7. To manage size of your console, you can click on Quick switch or select Full screen from View on the toolbar.
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