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Add a virtual serial port to a virtual machine
To make devices such as modems and printers available to the virtual machine, you need to add a virtual serial port. A virtual machine in VMware Player can use up to four serial (COM) ports. They can...
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Add a generic SCSI device to a virtual machine
The guest operating system can have direct access to SCSI devices that are connected to the host system, such as scanners or tape drives. A virtual machine can use the generic SCSI driver to run any...
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Configure eight-way virtual symmetric multiprocessing
Virtual SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) allows a single virtual machine in VMware Player to use two or more processors simultaneously. You can assign processors and cores per processor to a virtual...
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Configure Enhanced virtual keyboard feature
The Enhanced virtual keyboard feature might be useful if you have a non-US keyboard, since it offers better handling of international keyboards and keyboards with extra keys. This feature also improves...
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The virtual networking components in VMware Player are virtual switches, virtual network adapters, the virtual DHCP server, and the NAT device. Here is a brief description of each of them: Virtual...
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Three types of networking configurations are available in VMware Player: bridged networking, NAT networking, and host-only networking. You cannot configure custom networking in VMware Player, but you...
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Add a virtual network adapter to a virtual machine
Up to 10 virtual network adapters can be added to a virtual machine in VMware Player. Here is how you can add a virtual network adapter: 1. Select the virtual machine from the library and go to Player...
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Configure bridged networking
With bridged networking, a virtual machine is connected to a network by using the network adapter on the host system. This networking configuration is often the easiest way to give your virtual machine...
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Configure NAT networking
With NAT (Network Address Translation) networking, a virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network. Instead, a separate private network is set up on the host system and a...
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Configure host-only networking
With host-only networking, a network completely contained within the host computer is created. This networking configuration provides a network connection between the virtual machine and the host...
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