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VMware Workstation Setup
The Workstation build is designed to work with a host with 8GB of RAM and VMware workstation version 8.0.
The host operating system must be 64bit and all the CPU virtualization features must be enabled in the BIOS in
order to be able to run the 64bit VMs. Placing the lab files on a fast disk and having a host with more RAM will
make the lab run faster.
The main setup required is to reserve 7168MB of RAM for VMs and choose to Fit all virtual machine memory
into reserved host RAM. Both of these settings are under the Edit menu Preferences… item.
If your lab host has more than 8GB of RAM select a larger value and allocate more RAM to the VMs.
The other requirement is that the Lab network be configured. Under the Edit menu is the Virtual Network
Editor. Select the VMNet3 object; make sure Host Only is selected in VMNet Information and that Use Local
DHCP Service to distribute IP addresses to VMs is not selected. The Subnet IP should be 192.168.199.0 with a
Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0. You may use the option Connect a host network adapter to this network to
allow your PC direct access to the lab network, otherwise all your network access will be through the router
VM. Unless you are going to run multiple copies of the lab, each on a different VMNet but the same IP range,
then it is easiest to have the host connect to the network.
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