You’re not limited to a single snapshot for each system (as is the case, for example, in Microsoft Virtual PC), you can take as many as you like. If something goes wrong, for instance you install some faulty software, you can then revert to an older snapshot. You can also create snapshots of a machine’s state. This way you can keep one pristine template for each OS you run, and just make clones of it each time you need a new test machine. Using this you can quickly create a new virtual machine by cloning an existing one. If you find that you’re running too many machines, you can simply pause a running machine, instantly releasing its resources for use by your host PC or by other virtual machines.Īnother boon for anyone who does a lot of testing is the clone function. For a start, you can run several virtual machines at once in the program’s tabbed interface so you can flick between operating systems as easily as you would between tabs in a web browser. Microsoft, Sun and VMWare itself all offer free software that allows you to run guest operating systems on your PC, each in its own virtual machine.įortunately, Workstation 7 has lots of stuff that its free competitors lack. It’s an OVA file, that you can just import in your VMware Workstation / Player / Fusion environment.VMWare Workstation is one of the oldest consumer virtualisation programs, but these days it has some stiff competition.

There is already a ESXi 7.0 Virtual Appliance ready to be used. Just download the prebuild virtual appliance of ESXi from Virtual Ghetto web site ( ).

That’s it… just power-on the VM and install ESXi 7.0… and enjoy!īut there is also another option… much more faster and super easy. With the vmxnet3 adapter ethernet0.virtualDev = 'vmxnet3' Power-off the VM, found your vmx file and just change the line: ethernet0.virtualDev = 'e1000' The solution is quite easy and require to change the vNIC type. This is the reason on why the installer cannot found the network adapter. Probably the new Workstation version will add directly the ESXi 7.0 support, but at this time you must use a generic ESXi 6.x type, with the problem that is using the old Intel E1000 vNIC… no more supported in ESXi 7.0. This does not depend by the virtual hardware or the Workstation version… actually workstation latest version is 15.5.2 and the problem it’s just the same.

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