 Re: Virtual Machine configuration replica
You can full clone the guest onto a portable hard-drive and transfer over to your other computer. They will be the same, but not linked. If you want them linked, move the guest to a portable hard-drive and take it with you to the office or you could try to use Virtual Machine Sharing...
Option #1.
Open the guest you want to clone but don't power it on. VM > Manage > Clone > Next > The current state in the virtual machine > Create a full clone. Then change the Virtual machine name (optional). Location: = your portable hard-drive > Finish
Option #2.
You can copy the folder your guest is in to a portable hard-drive and transfer it that way. When you power on the copy and VMware asks, answer you made a copy.
Virtual Machine Sharing... (has to be workstation 8 or higher)
When you enable virtual machine sharing, Workstation Pro starts VMware Workstation Server on the host system. You can create shared virtual machines and remote users can connect to the host system.
Configure Virtual Machine Sharing and Remote Access
You can enable or disable virtual machine sharing and remote access, change the HTTPS port that VMware Workstation Server uses on the host system, and change the shared virtual machines directory.
When you enable virtual machine sharing and remote access, Workstation starts VMware Workstation Server and configures the service to start with the host system.
When you disable virtual machine sharing and remote access, Workstation disables virtual machine sharing and stops VMware Workstation Server. You cannot create shared virtual machines and remote users cannot connect to the host system.
You must disable virtual machine sharing and remote access before you can change the HTTPS port that VMware Workstation Server uses.
Prerequisites
■ On a Linux host, verify that you have root access.
■ On a Windows host, verify that you have administrative privileges.
■ If you plan to change the shared virtual machines directory, stop sharing virtual machines on the host system. You cannot change the shared virtual machines directory if there are shared virtual machines on the host system. See Stop Sharing a Virtual Machine.
Procedure to set up host server
1. Select Edit > Preferences > Shared VMs.
2. To enable or disable virtual machine sharing and remote access, click Enable Sharing or Disable Sharing (Windows host), or select or deselect Enable virtual machine sharing and remote access (Linux host).
3. To change the HTTPS port that VMware Workstation Server uses on the host system, select a different port from the drop-down menu.
Note
If you change the port to a non-default value, remote users must specify the port number when they connect to the host system, for example, host : port.
4. To change the shared virtual machines directory, type or browse to the location of the new shared virtual machines directory (Windows host), or type the new directory in the text box and click Apply (Linux host).
5. Click OK to save your changes
To set up guest to be shared on the Workstation server open the VM guest you want to share but don't power it on.
VM > Manage > Share > Next > Move the virtual machine or Make full clone > Finish
To connect to a Remote Server from Workstation client.
Click connect to a Remote Server from home screen
or
File > Connect to server > type the host name or IP address, your user name and password and click Connect
You may need to download and install WSX from the VMware website to use this web based and not just on your local network. I dont have another computer with VMware to try this out. Your on your own after this point.
Last edited by nate; 08-22-2017 at 08:12 PM.
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