The book of VMware : the complete guide to VMware workstation / Brian Ward.

Content
1. Introduction
Who should read this book
Terms and conventions
Book layout
VMware application
Quality assurance
etc

2. The VMware virtual machine
Processor, Bus, Memory and Interrupts
The VMware devices
IDE Disk and CD-ROM drives
SCSI Disks
Floppy drive
Ethernet interfaces
etc

3.Installing VMware workstation
Host system requirements
Installing VMware workstation for windows
Upgrading from version 2
Starting VMware WINDOWS
VMware Workstation for windows files
etc

4. Virtual machine configuration and operation
Getting started
The VMware configuration wizard
Stepping through the VMware configuration
VMware operation
Power on
Toolbar buttons
VMware menu item
etc

5. Windows guest systems
Windows driver compatibility in guest system
WindowsNT, 2000 and xp
Navigating the control panel
IDE Devices
SCSI devices
Floppy Drives
etc
6. Linux Gues operating systems
Running linux as under VMware
System requirements
Installing linux under VMware
etc

7. Freebsd guest systems
Installing FreeSBD under VMware
Using an existing freeBSD
The VMware
XFree86 Version 4
The VMware toolbox
etc

8. Other guest operating systems
CPU and VMware
NetBSD and open BSD
Installing openSBD
NetBSD and opnbsd devices
etc

9. Host and Guest system network configuration
VMware's Networking options
Network basics
IP
Bridge Networking
Host-only Networking
etc

10. Network services SMB Fileserver (Linux Host)
The SAMBA Server side
SMN File sharing client (Windows Guest)
Using Network share folder to a drive letter
Attaching a share directly
etc

11. Non-Networked file transfer
Disk images
Disk image utilities (Linux Host)
Kernel support for the loopback device
Extracting data from floppy disk
Creating new floppy image
etc

12. Troubleshooting
General troubleshooting
Try to identify the part of the system that's causing trouble
Diagnostic messages and errors
Other resources
Problem solving
etc

Includes index.