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Chapter 4 Creating and Upgrading a Virtual Machine
Memory Allocation
ThisoptionisavailableforcustomconfigurationsorifyouclickCustomizeHardware
onthelastpageoftheNewVirtualMachinewizard.
Acolorcodediconcorrespondstoeachvalue.Touseoneoftheseamounts,movethe
slidertothecorrespondingicon.Thehighendoftherangethatappearsisde
term
ined
bytheamountofmemoryallocatedtoallrunningvirtualmachines.Ifyouallowvirtual
machinememorytobeswapped,thisvaluechangestoreflecttheamountofswapping
thatwasspecified.Tochangetheamountofmemoryavailabletoallvirtualmachines,
usetheWorkstationpreferenceseditor(Edi
t>Preferences).
Network Connection Type
ThisoptionisavailableforcustomconfigurationsorifyouclickCustomizeHardware
onthelastpageoftheNewVirtualMachinewizard.Youhaveseveraloptionsfor
connectingthevirtualmachinetothenetwork:
BridgednetworkingIfyourhostcomputerisonanetworkandyouhavea
separateIPaddressforyourvirtualmachine(orcangetoneautomaticallyfroma
DHCPserver),selectBridged.Othercomputersonthenetworkcanthen
communicatedirectlywiththevirtualmachine.
NAT(NetworkAddressTranslation)IfyoudonothaveaseparateIPaddressfor
yourvirtualmachinebutyouwanttobeabletoconnecttotheInternet,selectNAT.
Thevirtualmachineandthehostshareasinglenetworkidentitythatisnotvisible
outsidethenetwork.
HostonlyHostonlynetworkingprovidesanetworkconnectionbetweenthe
virtualmachineandthehostcomputer,usingavirtualnetworkadapterthatis
visibletothehostoperatingsystem.Withhostonlynetworking,thevirtual
machinecancommunicateonlywiththehostandothervirtualmachinesinthe
hostonlyne
twork.Sel
ectHostonlytosetupanisolatedvirtualnetwork.
See“CommonNetworkingConfigurations”onpage 286.
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