Learning VMware Workstation for Windows: Implementing and Managing VMware’s Desktop Hypervisor Solution

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P. von OvenLearning VMware Workstation for Windowshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9969-2_5

5. Virtual Network Resources

Peter von Oven¹  

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Gloucestershire, UK

 

In this chapter we are going to focus on virtual networking and how virtual machines can communicate with each other as well as communicate with external machines and services such as the Internet when running as virtual machines hosted by VMware Workstation Pro.

We are going to start by describing how virtual networking works along with an overview of the core components that make up a virtual network.

Next, we are going to look at some of the networking types that are used by VMware Workstation ...