VMware Workstation 5.0 Handbook teaches users nuts and bolts of a strong program, including how to install and upgrade VMware and use the guest operating system. KEY FEATURES * Provides a complete guide to VMware Workstation only 5 * Includes important features such as virtual networking, several photographs, team, management and related clones, shared folders, and Windows clustering technologies * teaching nuts and bolts of VMware Workstation, including how to install it on Windows and Linux platforms, solve problems and explore common issues, set up complex virtual networks, transferring, sharing, and working with virtual machines and disks, and tune the performance of virtual machines to meet different needs * Presents the material through a step-by-step, real-world tutorials that allow users to work with the software as they work through projects * Includes a CD-ROM with a demo version of VMware Workstation 5 Leostream 5, VMware documentation, and all figures from book On CD! * VMware Workstation 5 DEMO - Includes trial version of VMware Workstation 5 for Windows and Linux hosts * DOCUMENTATION - Provide documentation of VMware * LEOSTREAM * DEMO - Contains Leostream five virtual controllers for centralized management FIGURES * virtualization software - Includes all images in the book, color , by chapter SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS drives CD-ROM, Hard drives, personal computers Standard x86-compatible running Windows or Linux, 400 MHz or faster CPU, 500 MHz recommended; enough memory to run both your host OS and virtual machine; 256 MB RAM minimum, 512 MB recommended.