VMWARE

Why VMware ?

There are many reasons for using VMware.

Primarily as hackers we want to be able to protect ourselves from other hackers at all times.

The other reason being that as hackers we would be doing a lot of experimenting and using a lot of software that might not be tested properly. So, basically to protect our PCs from these threats we can use VMware.

Advantages:-

1. Network Isolation :- Hide from other hackers. We can configure VMware to communicate only to a specific machine, while performing some isolated tasks.
2. Hardware Consolidation :- VMware is a good choice instead of spending time and money on different physical computers. Different virtual machines can run on the same host OS, that means we can have more than one Guest OS running on our PC.
3. Performance :– Virtual Machines run simple and common tasks pretty well. Shared resource enhances performance of the physical computer also.
4. Testing :-  Usually production work is not done on virtual machines. It is used mostly for different tools and experimenting with them, thus if something goes wrong, we can isolate any damage that can happen.
5. Snapshots :-Snapshot is a feature of VMware. Snapshot is like a backup of the machine. Just like rollback, snapshot takes the machine to a previous saved state. So, if accidently the machine crashes or loses some system files, then we can restore the machine from the snapshot saved previously.
6. Pause/Resume :- VMWare also comes with the feature where you can pause the Guest OS and then resume it later from the same state.

 

1.  Download :- www.vmware.com VMware Player is free, while VMware Workstation requires license and is also available as an evaluation version. VMware Player comes with less features than VMware Workstation. Registration is required for downloading the software.
2. Install :- Installation is a simple next-next process. Installation options for network are:
   a)      Bridged networking – It gives the same direct access as physical network to the guest OS.  Each guest OS will have an IP address of its own.
   b)      NAT  - Host OS will have the physical IP on network. And guest OS will have private IP, they can connect to the network through the host IP.
   c)       Host only - Guest OSs will be able to connect to each other but not even the host or the network.
   d)      No connection
3.  Host OS is the main OS running on the physical machine. 
4.  Guest OS is the OS running on a virtual machine. 
5.  VMWare Tools :-  VMware Tools can be installed after the guest OS is installed. It adds some extra features, such as moving the mouse easily from guest to host.
6. Changing Views :- There are a variety of options that VMware guest OS can be viewed in.