Chapter 4. VMware Workstation behind the Scenes

In the previous chapters, you have learned how to install and use VMware Workstation. In this chapter, you'll take a look behind the scenes and see what has happened on the VMware host computer while the virtual machines were being created. You'll have a look at the configuration files that have been created and the associated disk files. You'll also learn what you need to do when moving VMware disk files to other computers. Also, we'll discuss the different kinds of storage that you can use in a VMware Workstation environment.

Understanding VMware Workstation files

You will change most of the configuration parameters that your virtual machines are using by hand. However, there are situations where ...

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