Lab1-Introduction to Virtualization and VMWare

It is a software implementation of a machine (computer) that executes programs like a real machine. Virtualization technology is a simulation program which is simulate and create another virtual pc or windows in already windows in our machine. The user especially software developer that like to testing other operating system environment will choose this techniques because it did not crash the real operating system that install inside computer.

VMWare will create the image disk that will be use to acting like real hard drive and the extension file will be register as .vmdk. Inside the VMWare, the network connection can be configure in two way which is bridge option allow the virtual computer to direct access to external network. With this option, the virtual machine will have different ip address from the real machine ip address. this is different from the other option that is host-only. This option need user to assign the ip address for the virtual machine and have limitation, to use the network by the virtual pc is only to access among virtual machine if let say there have the other virtual machine installed together.