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Finally getting acquainted with the ins and outs of operating VMware Workstation 6. The user documentation from VMware has proved very helpful in getting a new user (like me) comfortable with operating the software. The only drawback experienced so far has been the fact that VMware is hungry on system resources and barely runs on a physical host with memory less than 1GB (as opposed to my 512 MB main memory laptop, where VMware Workstation ran extremely slowly).

Setting up the Virtual Machines (VM) was a breeze.breeze (albeit a time consuming process). In W308, two VMs were created on the physical host computer Scofield running VMware Workstation 6 on Ubuntu 8.04:
  • For purposes of experimental control, the first VM named Schutzstaffel was created using the Custom configuration, and the second VM Totenkopfverbände was created using the Typical configuration options.
  • Schtuzstaffel was configured to have 384 MB of main memory, and an 8 GB virtual hard disk, with the entire hard disk space created for the machine right from the start (VMware claims that this increases the overall performance of the VM).
  • Totenkopfverbände was configured starting with 512 MB of main memory and an 8GB virtual hard disk but the virtual disk space has not been allocated for the machine in its entirety, it will grow according to the machine's storage requirements (up until it reaches its maximum capacity of 8 GB).
  • Both machines were configured to work with NAT network configuration as opposed to Bridged networking or Host-only network configuration.
  • Both machines had Ubuntu 8.04 installed in them as the Guest Operating System as well as VMware Tools.
  • Within the NAT networking scheme, the VMs utilized a Virtual Network Adapter (which was supported by the prior installation of VMware Tools).

There after using the ping and traceroute programs, communication was established between the two local virtual machines Schutzstaffel and Totenkopfverbände. The following the output of the operations:

reichsfuhrer@Schutzstaffel:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:9b:87:1f
inet addr:192.168.241.128 Bcast:192.168.241.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe9b:871f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:22470778 (21.4 MB) TX bytes:276447 (269.9 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:36124 (35.2 KB) TX bytes:36124 (35.2 KB)

reichsfuhrer@Schutzstaffel:~$ traceroute 192.168.241.129
traceroute to 192.168.241.129 (192.168.241.129), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 totenkopfverbande.local (192.168.241.129) 7.222 ms 7.312 ms 7.281 ms
reichsfuhrer@Schutzstaffel:~$ ping 192.168.241.129
PING 192.168.241.129 (192.168.241.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.241.129: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.418 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.241.129: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.423 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.241.129: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.269 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.241.129: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.305 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.241.129: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.382 ms

[1]+ Stopped ping 192.168.241.129
reichsfuhrer@Schutzstaffel:~$