With this book as your guide, you get the tools you need to create a fleet of virtual machine images that you can use to build their own secure applications. Starting with the basics of virtualization and its place in the development and testing environments, the book then explore the API and provide a reference, in this example-rich functionality and purpose. VMware expert Eric Hammersley shares extensive experience in using VMware in the development process and show you how you can streamline your own development with the new VMware Server. You will learn to integrate VMware Server into an existing environment using CruiseControl.NET and Visual Studio (r) Team System as examples. This will help you to quickly deploy new machines, managing multiple platforms on a single machine, and dramatically increase the utilization of your hardware. What you will learn from this book * The steps on how to install and configure VMware Server * Tips to follow when creating development base images * Methods on how to organize your image libraries and prepare them for use * Best practices for using VmCOM, VmPerl, and API Programming * How to integrate VMware Server into the existing environment and automate functions * How to use VMware Server to provide banks of testing machines on request Who this book is to This book is for software developers, lead developers, and software testing engineers who want to integrate VMware Server into the existing system to create and test applications on various platforms. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals.