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VMWARE Server - anybody here use it
Hi all
Now I have a nice 16GB QUAD machine at home I was thinking of using VMWARE SERVER to fire up several Virtual machines (XP / W7) . One of these would be RDP enabled - logging on to this one would allow access to the rest of the internal network.
I'm thinking of using windows server 2008 R2 as the host. This would only run the virtualisation software as the virtual machines would be doing the actual "work".
Anybody tried setting up this type of system whether using W7 or a server such as W2008 server.
The advantage of using vmware server is that you can then address the virtual machines remotely just as if they were different physical machines.
The difference between vmware server and vmware workstation is that with vmware worksation you need to logon to your HOST machine first to be able to access any virtual machines on it.
I've a fair bit of experience with virtualisation but setting up something like this is definitely new for me so I hope someone can give me guidance on what to do.
The host say Windows 2008 will be running several Virtual machines
one of these will have a static internal IP address which the router will then port forward the RDP request from a remote computer. I should be able then to logon to this virtual machine and have access to the rest of the internal network if I've set it up correctly.
I'm using no-ip (No-IP - Dynamic DNS, Static DNS for Your Dynamic IP) for resolving dynamic addresses from the ISP. This works fine.
Any help greatfully appreciated -- networking is a bit of a "grey area" to me.
Cheers
jimbo