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Chapter 6 Working with Virtual Machines

To edit advanced virtual machine properties

1Intheleftpane,clickServices.

2MovethepointerovertheservicenameandchooseDetailsfromthemenu.

3MovethepointerovertheconfigurationnameandchooseDetailsfromthemenu.

4MovethepointeroverthevirtualmachinenameandchoosePropertiesfromthe

menu.

5ClickAdvancedProperties.

6 UpdatetheCPU

settings:

 CPUPriority–PriorityforsharesofCPU.

 CPUReservation–MinimumamountofCPUsetasideforthevirtual

machine.

 CPULimit–MaximumamountofCPUavailableforthevirtualmachine.

 Use32‐bitVirtualCPU(OverridetheHostCPUType)–Bydefault,the

virtualCPUtypeassumesthephysicalhostCPUtype.

Selectthischeckboxtooverridethedefaultbehaviorandensurethevirtual

CPUtypeis32‐bit.Forexample,youmighthaveavirtualmachinewitha

32‐bitguestoperatingsystemthatdoesnothavetherequiressoftware(kernel

ordrivers)torunona64‐bitprocessor.Anotherexampleinvolvesamixed

(32‐bitand64‐bit)ESXhostenvironmentwhereyouneedtocompleteatesting

processspecificallyona32‐bitguestoperatingsystem

andthatoperating

systemaccommodatesboth32‐bitand64‐bitCPUarchitecture.

7 Updatethememorysettings:

 MemoryPriority–Priorityforsharesofmemory.

 MemoryReservation–Minimumamountofmemorysetasideforthevirtual

machine.

 MemoryLimit–Maximumamountofmemoryavailableforthevirtual

machine.

8Viewthevirtualmachinetoolandcustomizationsettingssetatthetemplatelevel:

 VMware ToolsInstalled–StatusofwhetherVMwareToolsisinstalledornot.

IfUnknown(Mustdeploytodetermine)appears,deploythevirtualmachine

andcheckthisvalueagain.

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