The Book of VMware

IDE Disks CD-ROM SCSI Disks Floppy Drives Ethernet Interface Serial and Parallel Ports Mouse Sound Card Chapter 6: Linux as a Guest Operating System Linux Under VMware Running Existing Linux Installations Under VMware Installing Linux Under VMware VMware Tools for Linux Installing the Tools XFree86 Server Configuration Testing and Customizing the VMware X Server XFree86 Version 4 VMware X Server Information The VMware Toolbox vmware-toolbox and X Startup Files Dual Configuration and other VMware Tools for Linux Using checkvm in X Startup Scripts Linux Devices The Linux Kernel and Device Drivers Working with Kernel Modules Linux Device Drivers for VMware Linux System Information Booting Linux: LILO Chapter 7: FreeBSD (and NetBSD) Installing BSD Under VMware Using an Existing FreeBSD Install under VMware VMware Tools for FreeBSD The VMware X Server XFree86 Version 4 The VMware Toolbox Shrinking Virtual Disks Dual Configuration BSD Devices ATA/IDE Disks ATAPI CDROM SCSI Disks Floppy Drives Ethernet Interfaces Serial Ports Parallel Ports PS/2 Mouse Port Sound Customizing a FreeBSD Kernel for VMware BSD Kernel Configuration Parameters NetBSD Kernels BSD Boot Loaders BSD System Statistics Chapter 8: Other Guest Operating Systems CPU Idle and VMware Solaris Solaris Devices Graphics Solaris 2.7 Novell Netware Miscellaneous Notes FreeDOS FreeDOS Devices FreeDOS Install Hints Oberon Chapter 9: Host and Guest System Network Configuration Bridged Networking Host-Only Networking Host-Only IP Configuration VMware Host-Only DHCP Server Guest Operating System Networking Configuration Windows 95, 98 Windows NT Windows 2000 Linux FreeBSD and NetBSD Hostnames and DNS NAT and Host-Only Networks Windows Host Linux 2.2 Host Linux 2.4 Host NAT Configuration For Guest Systems VMnet Devices Custom Networks Windows Host, Bridged Network Linux Host, Bridged Network Windows Host, Host-Only Network Linux Host, Host-Only Network Ethernet MAC Addresses Using the VMnet Sniffer Chapter 10: Network Services SMB Fileserver (Linux Host) SAMBA User Management SAMBA Filesharing Management More Information on SAMBA SMB Fileserver (Windows Host) SMB Filesharing Client (Windows Guest) SMB Filesharing Client (Linux Guest) Network Printing Windows Host Printer Sharing Unix Guest Printing FTP Servers Unix FTP Servers FTP Servers (Windows) SSH Remote Shell Access Windows SSH clients X Client Forwarding with SSH Remote Shell Access (Other Protocols) Proxy Server Guest System Proxy Configuration Considerations For Other Services Chapter 11: Non-Networked File Transfer Disk Image Utilities (Linux Host) Working With Floppy Image Files Floppy Disk Image Utilities (Windows Host) CD-ROM Images (Windows Host Only) Accessing Guest Virtual Disks (Linux Host Only) Chapter 12: Troubleshooting Tracking Problems Down Problems and Solutions Windows Host Operating System Linux Host Operating System General Configuration Guest Operating Systems (General) Windows Guest (All Versions) Windows 95 Guest Windows 98 Windows NT and 2000 Guests DOS Guest Linux Guest VMware Tools Networking A 'Recovery' Guest Operating System Appendix A: Linux Display Parameters XFree86 Version 3 XFree86 Version 4