Good places to start learning Vmware?

[RangerLunis]

Hey, I wanted to start as an absolute beginner learning vmware, I have a certification test that requires basic knowledge of vmware as well as personal project I would like to work on that requires a program only available in windows XP, I was wondering if anyone knew any good sites to begin learning on the topic, Thanks for everything!

[CNY RMB]

Hi,

although I don't have any specific experience with VMware, I can only recommend spinning up a ESXI server and trying things out. Thats how I learned most about VMs (I mostly use KVM).

 

What exactly are you trying to do with the Virtual Machines?

If its just basic win XP emulation, then the desktop varient (Player/Workstation) will probably be sufficient.

 

Jakob

[RangerLunis]

4 minutes ago, CNY RMB said:

Hi,

although I don't have any specific experience with VMware, I can only recommend spinning up a ESXI server and trying things out. Thats how I learned most about VMs (I mostly use KVM).

 

What exactly are you trying to do with the Virtual Machines?

If its just basic win XP emulation, then the desktop varient (Player/Workstation) will probably be sufficient.

 

Jakob

I am a huge fan of a old ps1 title called king's field made by fromsoftware, basically it's the great grandfather of darksouls. Long ago they made a actual program called "Sword of Moonlight" It basically allowed fans to make their own king's field game and even included a remake of the original. It mainly only works in XP and has long since been abandonware. There website is here: http://www.swordofmoonlight.com/

 

My idea was to just play around in the program or potentially make my own game as I do believe the software allows custom models and other features. It would be a nice project anyways, I definitely have a plan to build a server soon so i'll definitely look into ESXI's Thanks!

[CNY RMB]

8 minutes ago, RangerLunis said:

I am a huge fan of a old ps1 title called king's field made by fromsoftware, basically it's the great grandfather of darksouls. Long ago they made a actual program called "Sword of Moonlight" It basically allowed fans to make their own king's field game and even included a remake of the original. It mainly only works in XP and has long since been abandonware. There website is here: http://www.swordofmoonlight.com/

 

My idea was to just play around in the program or potentially make my own game as I do believe the software allows custom models and other features. It would be a nice project anyways, I definitely have a plan to build a server soon so i'll definitely look into ESXI's Thanks!

If you are looking into building a server and are not bound to using I would really recommend looking into using KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). I had a go at using ESXI a few months ago and was very dissapointed by all the issues I've had. For KVM I can really recommend looking at the arch linux wiki (and its tutorials) [https://wiki.archlinux.org/]. However, that does require you to be comfortable with using the linux command line and using hardware with VT-d/AMD-v support. If your hardware has this tho, it can be really amazing, with everything from PCIE GPU passthrough (quite difficult) to actual access to physical drives and so on. Very exciting. You also don't have to use arch linux as it is quite a hassle to setup (Still worth it in my opinion). Ubuntu server or something similar will do just fine.

 

EDIT:

There are GUI tools available for KVM administration.

 

EDIT 2: For the XP thing, as long as it doesn't require too much resources, you might be fine with simple VMware player. If not then, you will probably require something with direct passthrough, etc. Not sure if ESXI offers this as free software.

[RangerLunis]

1 minute ago, CNY RMB said:

If you are looking into building a server and are not bound to using I would really recommend looking into using KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). I had a go at using ESXI a few months ago and was very dissapointed by all the issues I've had. For KVM I can really recommend looking at the arch linux wiki (and its tutorials) [https://wiki.archlinux.org/]. However, that does require you to be comfortable with using the linux command line and using hardware with VT-d/AMD-v support. If your hardware has this tho, it can be really amazing, with everything from PCIE GPU passthrough (quite difficult) to actual access to physical drives and so on. Very exciting. You also don't have to use arch linux as it is quite a hassle to setup (Still worth it in my opinion). Ubuntu server or something similar will do just fine.

I love linux to death, and anything more I could learn about it would be great, I'm pretty familiar with its commands so thanks for the information.

[CNY RMB]

3 minutes ago, RangerLunis said:

I love linux to death, and anything more I could learn about it would be great, I'm pretty familiar with its commands so thanks for the information.

If you need any help with setting up KVM, etc. just ask. I'm always happy to help.

Also, since you are already experienced in Linux, if and have not given Arch a try I would really recommend doing so.

[RangerLunis]

2 minutes ago, CNY RMB said:

If you need any help with setting up KVM, etc. just ask. I'm always happy to help.

Also, since you are already experienced in Linux, if and have not given Arch a try I would really recommend doing so.

Never tried it, but I definitely will now. Thanks for all the help man! I might ask a few questions, but again thanks!