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1. Intro to Class: Hi, how you doing? My name
is Amelia and welcome to Skillshare and thank you so much for registering for this class. We're, we're gonna be
talking about VMware fusion. I've been using
VMware fusion for a very long time on my Mac. I loved the Mac, but I also like windows and like playing
around with Linux and VMware fusion just
fills that gap perfectly because I can have
my macOS computer and then get this piece of software
installed onto it so that I can go and deploy my
own virtual machines, whatever they may be. You can get them
running on your Mac. You can run a Windows
clients like Windows ten, Windows 11, you could
run Windows Server. You could go and get
Linux working on their Ubuntu, Red Hat CentOS. You can actually just go and
install them directly on your Mac and run them
side-by-side on your Mac. It just makes it
very easy to run both operating
systems side-by-side. And of course, the
benefit of doing this is that sometimes there aren't applications available on the Max if you're needing
these in a business, for example, you're working in a business and there is
an application that you need that isn't available on the Mac and sometimes they're
not available on the Mac. So what is the solution?
Well, you got to, you did show a Mac and you get a Windows computer or
you keep your Mac, you get VMware Fusion. And then that way
you can install Windows and still have access to those applications that
maybe our Windows only. What we'll cover over these
next number of videos are the basics on how to
get VMware fusion, how to download it,
how to install it, how to do some basic
configuration on it. But then more importantly, had actually stopped
building your own computers, your own virtual machines
directly on your Mac. We're gonna be showing
you Windows and Linux and how to configure them pack and you get
the best performance out of these virtual
machines as well. We're gonna be covering
a lot of material. So do check this out. I recommend you go and try
this yourself as always go and try this yourself because that is the best way to learn. Whether you're doing
this just for your own personal lab environment, to learn more about
other operating systems. Or you need these for a business and you need to
actually be running a different operating system
side-by-side with your Mac. So that's the end of this
introductory lesson. Let us now go onto
the next lesson where we start getting VMware Fusion ready and you can start building your own virtual machines.
2. Why do I need a Lab?: Why do you need a
home lab now this may not be irrelevant
for you if you are looking at just
getting VMware Fusion installed on your Mac
because you need it. Maybe for a business you need to have Windows
running on there. But if you're wanting to
use this for a home lab, you're wanting to use
his full learning. That is essentially the
purpose of your home lab. Sometimes you might
not have the computers available to build a home
lab in your own place. Maybe you're at home, maybe
you're in a business and you want to learn about
other technologies. Maybe you need to familiarize
yourself a lot more with Windows Server
or with Linux, with other operating systems. Well, that's one of
the great things about a tool such
as VMware Fusion. You don't have to
get rid of your Mac. You didn't have to remove
the Mac operating system on your computer and then install windows
onto it or install a different operating
system onto your Mac. You don't have to do that. You can actually
side-by-side can currently run macOS and other
operating systems. Sometimes this is the
best way to learn. You want to learn
about Windows Server. Well, you don't have to
have a separate computer. It could install VMware
Fusion and then actually get the Windows Server I saw you downloaded
from the internet. You then install it directly
in your VMware Fusion. And then you've got
a virtual machine running Windows Server. That is brilliant. You can actually
be learning about Windows server without having to install it on a
real-life server. You can have it as a virtual
machine and then learn all the tech writing
there you could go and download a
domain controller, set it up with DNS setup with
all of these fancy stuff without you even having to have a separate computer to do that, you went to learn about Linux. You can just go and
download Linux. What are the flavor
of Linux you want? And then set it up
as a virtual machine directly on your Mac. Your Mac essentially
becomes your home lab. You'll learning environment for all these other sorts
of technologies. Because sometimes
on your Mac you're going to be limited
to be able to learn certain technologies that aren't compatible with the
Mac environment. So you go and install
Windows, linux, other operating systems,
and then you can learn about those environments. Those ecosystems are just
slightly different to the mat, so it makes your learning easy. Having VM effusion installed as a lab and then play around with all these operating systems. So that's why I
recommend setting up VMware fusion because that is the best way to learn about all of these other technologies.
3. VMware Fusion Overview and Setup: What we're gonna be
doing is we are going to be getting VMware Fusion, showing you how to
actually download it. You can open up Safari. You can open up Google
Chrome on your computer, and then navigate to VMware fusion to the website
to actually download. As all I've done is I've
opened up Google and type in VMware Fusion
and press Enter. And then I'm presented with
this window right here. And the one that are looking
for is this one right here, run Windows and more on
Mac, VMware, few years. So we're gonna click on
that one right there. Now here it is. He's VMware Fusion. Now the great thing is you can actually download VMware fusion for free and trial it and use it for a
little bit of time. But then if you are finding
it really, really useful, and if you're wanting to
continue to use VMware fusion, then you're gonna have to
go and actually buy it. You will notice that there
are two options right here. One is by online and the
other is trifle free. Now you are going to
look down the bottom. Family effusion desktop
hypervisor is for Mac. By fusion today, fusion
Pro and fusion playa are relied upon by millions of IT professionals,
students, developers. This is the version. If you are going to need it
for some sort of ongoing use, you want to maybe use it in a business, very
sort of things. You need to go and actually
buy it from here up. So if you're using this in a home demo and you're not going to be running
anything important. You're not gonna be having
licensed stuff on there. It's purely for your
learning and you can go and get yourself a
free key from here. So either of those two
options will work. Remember if you're
gonna be using it for any business use, you're running it
in a company for whatever purpose going
by VMware Fusion. Otherwise you can also get
the free version right here. And the website has a
lot more information. If you wanted to learn
a little bit more about VMware Fusion and really
what it can do for you. There are a couple of versions also if you click on Compare, fusion or fusion Pro, so you get the fusion
player or effusion Pro, giving you an overview of essentially the
differences between these two and what they can do. So essentially both
of them will give you the core foundational components that are needed to be able to actually build your own VMs and actually get
everything up and running. The main differences between
the two will be shown in the advanced features area
where you're gonna say it's gonna be allowing
you to do virtualization, network customizations, remote vis-a-vis
horsepower control, create linked clones, create
full client's encrypted VM. So those things may
be important to you. We will cover some of these
pro areas in this guide. So just be aware of that. But they're all, they're
only going to be available in fusion
process if you do need some of these
other functions than fusion pros, what
you're going to need. But if you're not
gonna use any of these and look for most people who are just gonna be using VMware fusion just for one VM, or maybe just a pool of VMs. It may not be necessary for
you to go down the pro route. And then in the
licensing, you will notice that for fusion player, that is the free version commercial as well
as fusion player, but also effusion Pro. You've got a
commercial license of pro and a trial of priority. You can try the pro one for free for a limited
amount of time. Also note that the free for personal use is only available for fusion
playoffs if you're doing this in a lab environment and you wanted to get
really fancy and build a whole bunch of VMs
and take advantage of some of these other features
which may be good for you, especially if you're
looking at cloning a VM to make it very easy, you don't have to go and
rebuild VMs, things like that. Then maybe the free version
is not the right one for you. You may need to go down
to the pro version. Okay, So that's just
the main differences between the fusion plant
and the fusion Pro. You go and select the option
that is right for you. If you're gonna go try
for free perfusion plan, you go to the right
fusion 12 platform MacOS 11 plus you can go and register for a free
personal license. If you didn't already
have a VM or account, you'll have to go and
register for ones. You can create a brand new
VMware account right in here, fill in all of your
relevant details and then you'll be able
to actually get yourself a license key. So under here, under
license and downloads, once you've logged in,
you'll actually see the serial key listed on there. You'll then be able to
download VMware Fusion player, get the serial k and then use that serial
key if you wanting the pro version that
we're going to click on download now or
click on Buy Online, the costing teeth
for the player, for the pro version and
then for the pro and you also will get one year
of support from VMware. And then a bit of
a summary, again, high-level summary of
the differences between the three different options
between player and Pro. Specifically, what you can and can't do with
each of those two. So you'd get the player, you get the pro,
whichever one you need. So what I'm gonna be
getting is I'm going to be getting BI Pro. So I'm gonna go and click on BI Pro and then you
do what you need to do by going and adding it
to cut, purchasing it. And then you will actually
be able to download VMware fusion onto
your computer. You should now have the
installer file on your computer, which we can then double-click and then start the
basic installation of VMware fusion will then show you essentially the
bits in VMware fusion, the different areas so you can familiarize yourself
with what is in there. So I'm just going
to double-click. I've got the DNG file
which was downloaded onto my Mac presented with
this window right here. And it just says
double-click to install. So I'm gonna
double-click on that. What this will do
is this will copy the installation onto your Mac, into the applications
area within your finder. And then open up VMware Fusion. And then we can go from there. I'm going to ask you
for your password, for your max and put that in
terms and conditions here, you put in your license
key for VMware Fusion 12. You can buy a k If
you didn't get it, I'll get a free license. Or you could say, I want to
try professional for 30 days. So the installation
will be the same for the play-out or for the pro. You now select the
relevant option if you've got a license key, great, you can install
it right in there. If you need a free key for the player, you can
get it from there. Or you can try the full pro
version for up to 30 days. So I've got fusion 12
professional, all done. I've got now that opened up, but there's nothing in here. So I'm gonna click on the Plus. You're gonna be
presented here with a few different options, but we'll cover each
of these individually. We'll select plus and nu. So here this is the main screen where you're gonna be working with all of your VMs and
building new virtual machines. You can install directly
from a disk or an image. So the whole point of this, of course, is that you're
gonna need to have yourself, your Windows ISO files or your Linux ISO follows whatever operating system
you're wanting to install, you need that disk image itself to be able to
drag it onto here. So you drag your ISO into
here or you can select it, and then you can start
the installation. So you can get Windows Server, you can get Windows ten or 11, generally for free off the internet from the
Microsoft website. You can download trial
versions of all of that. We're not gonna cover
how to do that. So just easily go
into Google typing, maybe download Windows Server 2022 If that's what
you want to install, and you can actually
try it for free. And of course, you
then need to license it accordingly once you've finished a trial version with Linux, well, that's
slightly different. If you want to download
Linux, Ubuntu, linux CentOS, you
can actually go into Google type
in download Linux. You'll then be able to find the website for
Ubuntu, for CentOS, and then you download that I saw once you've got
that big ISO file, which will be several
gigabytes big. That is the file that you will
then use to put right into here on our VMware Fusion and then you can commence
the installation. There's a few other options
available here which we're not gonna cover
in a lot of detail. But if you are running a Mac
that he's running boot camp, you're potentially
already running Windows on your computer
side-by-side using bootcamp, then you could take advantage of that installed from bootcamp, you can create your own
virtual customed image, create a virtual machine
on a remote server. Important existing
virtual machine. Install macOS from a
recovery partition or you can migrate your PC. There's a lot of different
options available for you. Now these are some more
advanced features. Again, we're not gonna
cover these a whole lot. We'll go into a lot
more detail about the specifics in
these future videos.
4. Basic Configs: We've gone through a little
introduction around this. Select the installation
method screen where you can navigate to our ISO file or
actually drag it into here. On the bottom right here, you'll see that I've
actually got to ISO files right there
in my Finder up. One being Ubuntu, which is
a Linux operating system, and the other being Windows 11. So these are two ISO files. Essentially it's a packaged file of that operating system. And that is the file
that I'm going to use to select when I'm actually going to go and build my virtual machine in our
VMware Fusion environment. Now let us look at some
settings that are available to us in VMware fusion at the
very top left-hand corner, we've of course
got our task bar. We've got settings to a
whole bunch of stuff. Let's just click on
VMware right here. You can do about VMware fusion to actually
see a little bit more about this particular version that we've got running. We can click on Preferences. Now there's a whole
bunch of settings available to you here within our VMware
Fusion generals tab, whole heap of areas
at the very top including general
keyboard, mouse, etc. These are more high-level customizations
that you can do to your VMware environment,
including the activity. Do you know that you
want to take place when your VMs closed down shortcuts. Gaming if you want to order
detect things when you are playing games in a
virtual machine, which is actually quite cool, and a whole bunch of other
settings around here. You can map different keys to the amass display to want
to be single screen, a single window,
full screens, etc. Default application. So when you open up mail,
where do you want it to go? Some network settings and some further feedback.
Now, I loaded this stuff. You're not going
to have to go in and change very frequently. So maybe just spend
a little bit of time familiarizing yourself with
what's available here. But it's very, very
rare that you'll actually have to go into he to really change
anything unless you want to get very, very advanced. Which for the most users
you're not gonna have to go and touch anything
here necessarily. You can also go and obviously
update your license. You can check for
updates and this is one area that is good to do. It should automatically
prompt you from time to time when there is a
new version available, I recommend that you do update
the versions when you can. Now as of this course, we are version 12. So if your version 12
there maybe want to upgrade to the latest version
as long as it's within 12, if there is a new version
for version 13, for example, when that does come out, that is not going to
be a simple update. You are going to have to go
and buy a new version of 13 or downloaded free version of 13, depending
on what that is. But in my case, you'll
see that there is a new free update available
for all version 12 uses. So I'm gonna actually go and download it because I want to be making sure that I'm running the latest version
of VMware fusion. If this does come up,
go and download it, and it'll just work a
little bit better for you. So all that's downloading. Let's look at some
other options. Under the fall you've got new, which is where we
looked at before, Open this is going to open up to your virtual
machines folder. You may have, may
not have noticed, but when you actually
go and open up VMware fusion for
the very first time, it's gonna create a
folder somewhere on your computer where that
is under your hard drive. Under the users, you've got your own profile
that you've created. So in my case it's
called Emilio. And within there there is a folder called
Virtual Machines. And in here is where your
virtual machines will live. Now you have to
just keep in mind that when you actually
go and build, let's say you're building
a Windows 11 VM. It's going to have your ISO is going to be used
to install it. And then you're going
to actually have a huge amount of
data that's sitting in an image following a VMware fusion image file
sitting on your computer. Let's say for
example, when you are building your virtual machine, what's going to
ask you is, well, how much hard-drive
space do you want to provide to these Windows VM, if you say IT gig, then that potential
VM file could grow up to 80, get incapacity. And it's gonna be using the hard drive space that
is on your computer. So you have to be very
well aware of that. That of course, it is going
to be sharing some of the resources from your Mac is gonna be sharing not only
the hard drive space, but also the CPU and the
RAM of your computer. So if you're Mac is for example, using 32 gig of RAM, you're gonna have
to allocate some of that RAM to that Windows, serve out to that Windows VM. And then when that
Windows VM is actually running and it's
running side-by-side with your Mac will then your
max performance may drop a little bit because
it is sharing some of those resources with that VM. So you have to be
keeping that in mind. Download is now finished.
We'll install that shortly. But now when you have
your hard drive space, so you are going to have
to make a decision around where you want your
actual VMs to live. Me personally, I prefer my VMs to be on an
external hard drive. So what I will do
is I will actually have my virtual files, my actual image file sitting on a USB hard drive or another
sort of external hard drive. That way it's not
using the capacity that is built into my Mac. It's sitting somewhere else. And then my Mac has still a whole bunch of
space available, but we'll cover that
in a little bit when you actually
configuring the VMs, actually building a
Windows Server or Windows Client or an Ubuntu
wherever it might be. We'll cover that in
a little bit around where to actually point and sit. That image file
because it's very, very important you don't want to be running out of space on your Mac because then you
can have some other issues. Now with our software
update completed, let's click on Install
and re-launch. This is going to of course,
install the application, close out a VMware Fusion
and then reopen it. So that is now updated. Let's keep looking
through some of these settings open and run. Well, it's the same thing. Open recent scan for virtual machines is an
interesting one where it's actually going to scan
your computer and see whether there are virtual
machines sitting somewhere. What might have happened is if you had a virtual machine image somewhere on your computer or an external media and it's
been moved somewhere else, then VMware Fusion might
not be able to find it. So you can scan your computer
to save it can detect any one of those images that may actually exists
somewhere else. Import, as the name suggests, means that you can
actually import a virtual machine
to your computer. The great thing about VMware in general is VMware
allows you to create virtual machines across
many different sorts of platforms and you can easily
move them between computers, let's say in future, you decide to go and
update your Mac. You're gonna go in by the
lightest new MacBook Pro. Well the great thing
is you can easily just copy that file to that new Macs. You can import it
on your new Mac, and then it'll actually add that VM file, the actual image, to your new version of VMware fusion that you've got
running on a new computer, it can easily move the entire operating system with all the files from
computer to computer. As long as you've
got VMware Fusion, you'll be able to open them. Export is very similar. You just gonna be exploring
that image somewhere else. Now this one is a
great setting migrate, you'll pay safe, I select that. It's going to stay right here. The assistant helps
you to migrate your existing Windows
computer to run as a virtual machine
on the SMAC, this will transfer the
following from your pasting, all apps, all computer
settings, and all documents. Now this is
absolutely brilliant. Let's say in the event
that you've got yourself a Windows computer
or maybe you're moving from a Windows
computer to a Mac. Well, you can open up your Mac, you can install VMware Fusion, and then you can actually point, you'll VMware fusion to
your Windows computer. It's going to ask you
for the IP address of that Windows computer. If you're not too game
to try this yourself, he could get somebody
who's a little bit more technical to try it, but essentially going to point
it to your Windows Server, as long as both computers
are on the same network, the Mac and the Windows
computer on the same network. And then what will
happen is that your physical Windows computer, whether that be a
laptop or a desktop, will then become
a virtual image. It actually is going to check your entire version of Windows, all the files, and
then compress them together into one
single virtual file, which then you can
actually import into VMware Fusion and then
open up and login to your Windows computer the same way that you
could've when it was physically on a laptop or a desktop and you're
running the same thing, but now in a virtual
environment running on fusion. So that is absolutely brilliant and something
that you may want to consider if you are
looking at doing that. If you're building
something from scratch, you don't have to do
this, but just know that it is available for you. If you do want to
migrate and virtualize an actual physical
computer that you may have somewhere else in your
home or in your business. The Connect to Server option. We're not gonna cover
so much in this video, but essentially in some
corporate environments, VMware do a lot more
than just VMware Fusion. They run other
software out there. They release other
products such as vSphere, vCenter, ESX, etc. So you can actually
point that to one of these existing ESX or
VMware environments, the VSV environments,
and actually manage those environments through
VMware fusion if you need to. But we're not gonna cover
that in this specific detail, but just be aware that that is available if you so
choose to do that. You'll also notice that under the View and virtual machine, there's a whole
bunch of options in here which are all grayed out. And that's because you
didn't have our VM. But once we build our first VM, we're gonna go into
a lot more detail about what these settings do.
5. VM Build Windows 11: Here we are logged in. We've got VMware Fusion open, it's been registered, he's got a license key, you're
on the Internet. It's all looking good. Now let's go and actually
select the installation media. So of course, we showed you in the last video that
we've got to ISO files, one being Ubuntu, the
other one he been Windows 11 to ISO files that are
downloaded from the internet. And I can actually now
use them to connect to my first creation of our VM. So what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna literally grabbed
these windows 11. I saw and drag it into here. That has now added
that ISO into here. And you'll see it says create
a new virtual machine. This guide will guide you
through installing Windows or another operating system in a virtual machine on your Mac. We've now done that and
you can also select another image if you
didn't like that one, I could select this one. We're going to just
choose the very first one, which is our windows. And then we'll cover Ubuntu in a future video right there. Click on Continue. Now choose your
operating system. Select the operating
system to be used in this virtual machine. Now what this is going to
do is you now have select what is the virtual machine that you are building
now in our case, we know that it's
Microsoft Windows. And you'll see that window
is 11 is not listed. And that's not necessarily
a massive issue because all this is going to do, this essentially is
going to preconfigured some settings around
how much RAM, how much CPU you want
to be able to grant to a virtual machine based on some predetermined templates are some standard settings for that version type of
the operating system. So it's not massively important. But what we're
going to select it, you're gonna select
the very top option, which is Windows ten
and lighter x 64. But you'll see that there's a
whole bunch available here. So you can even go all
the way back to Windows 3.1 if you want to install the
Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, How great is that
to be able to run these earlier versions of Windows directly on your
Mac as a virtual machine, you've got Linux, there are Linux versions you can run
other versions of Mac OS. You can run macOS as a virtual machine within VMware Fusion,
absolutely brilliant. And then other versions, other operating systems, other
things in there as well. So the possibilities are
endless and you can run virtual machines on heaps and heaps of different
operating system types. But in our case,
we're going to do Windows ten and later X6 C4. Click on Continue, specify
the boot firmware. We're not gonna cover
this in a lot of data, but essentially you've
got legacy bios and UEFI. Legacy means it's like an older version,
no longer as you. So we're gonna stick with
the standard default. He's a summary of what it's
gonna do now you'll see that it has selected Windows ten and light off course
it has is gonna be Windows 11 and it's
pre-configured here. It's going to pre-configured a new hard disk
capacity of 60 gigs. So it's going to use
potentially up to 60 gig of your max
harddrive capacity. It's going to take two
gig of RAM on your Mac. The networking is
shared with my Mac, so it's going to use
the networking protocol in the network settings that
you've got on your max. If your mic is on Wi-Fi,
then these windows, which is gonna be
running all on its own, it's network
connection is going to be using the network
connection of your Mac. So think about the Windows sitting inside of your Big Mac. Whatever the resources
are on your Mac, that is what the resources are gonna be used on that
virtual machine. It's also going to
allocate to CPU cores, is going to use CD, DVD if you've got
one of those USBs, printers, sound cows, etc. So all of the ports,
all of the connections, all of the bits inside of the, inside of your computer. You've got what's called a
logic board or a motherboard. All of those bits are
going to be shared. Essentially the Mackey's giving those resources over
to our Windows VM. It's actually quite
cool, but as a result, of course, those resources, because they can be shared, then you'll max performance
may be slightly impacted because
it's not going to have those resources for it. 100%. It's gonna be sharing
it a little bit with that Windows VM that
we're gonna be building. If you so choose to go and
customize the settings. Now, I recommend you go and customize these potentially now. But the great thing about a VM, you can go and change these settings later on
if you so choose to. Later on if your VM is
running a little bit slow, it may be because
you've only allocated two gig of memory
to it and two CPUs, you could allocate
additional resources to your Windows VM. But the more resources you
give to that Windows VM, the more your max performance
will be impacted. When I say the max performance, when you're working in macOS, you may be on MacOS
doing some stuff at the same time as
your Windows VM. And then your Mac maybe
running slower because more resources are being given
to your Windows computer. At the end of the day, windows will always run better. Stand alone on its own computer because it's got
all the dedicated resources for that computer. While in this case, because
it's running as a VM, it may run a little bit slow up. Something else to consider. Generally, if you're
gonna go down to your local PC store and you
pick up a Windows computer. That Windows computer
may come with 16 gig of RAM already built-in. Right here. You'll see that we're allocating here only two gig of RAM. Straightaway, that Windows
computer is gonna be running slower than it would if it was running all by itself. But you can go and
customize this right now. So we're gonna select
Customize settings. As I said, you can go and do this later on and
it's not a problem. You don't have to
do it right now. You can't do this later on. Now we're just gonna ask
me where do I want to store this Windows ten VM. This is where it's important to figure out where
you want to store it. If you want to store
it on your own Mac, then you'll max
hard drive capacity is going to be shared and given to these VM or you could install it on
an external hard drive. I personally prefer to do it on an external hard drive
because that way I'm not affected by the capacity of
my hard drive on my Mac, but you select whichever app. Also one little
small thing here, if it's running directly on your Mac as opposed to
an external hard drive, then he's gonna be
running faster. It will actually run
a little bit faster if it's running
directly on your Mac, if you have it pointing to a hard drive
space on your Mac. Because if it's on an
external hard drive, then you've got that USB cable, you got the USB connection
between those two. There's gonna be a little
bit slower because of that. You have to think about if
you've got plenty of capacity, if you let heap see
capacity on your Mac, then do it locally on your Mac. If your capacity is a concern and you don't
have enough capacity, then maybe look at doing it
on an external hard drive. I'm just selecting a new folder, VMs within an external USB
that I've got and I'm gonna save what that's done is it's created a separate
window over here. And I've got a whole
bunch of settings here. So I can now go and customize
this as much as I can. We are going to focus on the next video a lot more
about these customizations. So right now let's just
build the VM as is, as the standard settings
that were already assigned, which was two gig of
RAM, for example. But then we can go into
a lot more detail around each individual area
right here that will require a full video. So keep on track with that one because
we're gonna go into specifics around how to
customize any of any of these. But the great thing, of course, with VMware is you can up and down these
resources as you need. If you need to allocate more
hard drive space later on, if you need to allocate
more RAM later on, you can do that later on. If down the track
you've maybe thought, you know what, I want my Mac
to be a little bit faster. I want to take back
some of that ramp. Well then you can just
reduce the ramp on that virtual machine and
then you can take it back. So it's actually really,
really flexible Around what you can give and take away
from a virtual machine. And these of course,
are the benefits of your virtual machines
because he can't really do this as easily
on a real-life computer. If you have a Windows computer built and you want to
put more remanent, only going to go down to
your local computer store, buy more RAM, open the thing up and then
stick it in there. A lot more work here. You can virtually give RAM, cpu, hard drive space directly
to your virtual machine. So it will close this for now. We'll just gonna click
on these big plus, this big plus what it'll do is it will start the
installation process. Now if you are being
presented with this, this is a good sign. It means that your VMware
fusion has identified, has detected that I
saw that you have mounted and it has
booted from that ISO. And that's what you're
seeing right here. If this is not working
or if it's saying era or it hasn't been
able to find that ISO, it means it's possibly
something wrong with that ISO. So you're gonna have
to go and maybe look at getting a different ISO. And I say that he's beautiful
and also that will be compatible because unless
you get the right ISO, you won't be able to boot into
SAT setting this thing up, we then simply follow
the prompts to install, Windows installation
so your language, your time, and your currency, and then the keyboard method. We'll leave all that
as the default. Select the relevant
version of Windows 11 through with those terms. Now I'm going to select
on custom install Windows only advanced writing here
you see my hard drive, this is my hard drive, 60 gigs, what I've actually allocated
for this hard drive. Now in the next
video, as I said, we're gonna go through
the details on how to configure this VM. But one thing that
I'd recommend is by the stage you get to here, I would recommend that
you've already determined how much hard drive space
you do want to give to that VM with the CPU and with the RAN that you're gonna be
allocating to a VM, you can easily go up
and down with that, with the hard drive, it's slightly more difficult. You can do it, but there's a
little bit more challenging. So what I recommend
is tried to pick the correct capacity for
your hard drive now, now windows, it does not need a whole bunch of
hard drive installation. So you have to have a
think about every future maybe application or
program that you're gonna be installing on
your Windows device. If you're gonna be
installing games or a whole heap of
big applications, you might want to give a little bit more capacity upfront. You can actually go and
create that hard drive. Now, customize a hard drive before you even go to this step. Maybe you want to
give it an ID gig or a 120 gig hard drive. You can do that by look, I will mention that in
future if you do want to expand that hard drive
bigger, you can't do that. It's not a problem if
you want to make it 200 gig of 300 gig,
you can't do that. That's not an issue. If you do want to add
a second hard-drive, maybe you've got a C drive and then you want
to add a D drive. You can actually
add a second disc in future if you
need to as well. We will cover those
specifics in the next video, but just be aware the first time you are
creating that VM, give it an appropriate
amount of capacity, that it allows a little
bit of growth as well. So we're happy with
60 gig for now. So we're just going
to select that. This is now the process where Windows is starting to install. It's copying all the
necessary files. As it says, it's
getting the files ready for installation. It's opening up that ISO file and he's starting
to NAC configure and set that stuff up directly within that VM that we
have just configured, the shell that we've configured. And now it's going
to set it all up directly on your Mac on fusion. So we'll let this
go through this. We'll take a little bit of times and then you'll
present it with the standard screen here
where now Windows 11, he is installed and
you just now follow some basic
configuration settings. But of course now we want
to go and look at how to do some further configuration
on this Windows VM, because it's just a standard VM. But now how do you actually
increase the resources? What we're gonna look at
that in the next video, but that's the simple
guy there on how to get Windows 11 actually installed
as a virtual machine.
6. Customizsations and Settings: Let's go through some
further settings. Because if you remember
initially when we went and looked at
some of the settings, if you went to view or Virtual
Machine, all these areas, we were all grayed out, but now you'll
notice that there's a whole bunch more things here, which you can now do what
you couldn't do before. But the first thing
we want to do when we install a brand new
VM is installed, this thing called VMware Tools. We want to get better
compatibility between our VMware fusion software and the VM that is
running within it. Essentially, we want our
windows and our VM to be a lot more
closely together to make sure that the right dr is the right software is
there so that it's much more smooth interaction
between those two platforms. So we're gonna install this
thing called VMware Tools. We're going to
click on this and I click on Install right in here. And now we open up
our Windows Explorer. What you're going to
find is under this pay say that this new VMware
Tools has been mounted. So the Windows has been
removed, has been unmounted. And we've got these
new VMware Tools installed right in
here as a D drive. We're gonna go into here and actually install
this application. We're just going to follow
the standard prompts. And then you're gonna
get a much more smooth, seamless experience between
these two environments. So I definitely
recommend you do that as the first thing, right? As your Windows installation or any installation of the OS
has actually been completed, just follow those
prompts and then finish. Once that installation is done, it will then ask you
to reboot your VM. Alright, now let's go look at some settings that you've
got available up here. You'll see that there's
a whole bunch of more things available that weren't there
before you actually had VMware Tools installed. The first thing is this
button right here, and this is the suspend, the guest operating system. So by pressing that, what it's going to
actually do is it just freezes that VM in
its current state. It doesn't shut it down,
he doesn't reboot, it, doesn't do anything
like that because it's a virtual machine, it's some piece of software. It can just pause it exactly
where it is and there it is. So then the next
time you open it up, click on that, you just resumes
it from that exact spot. The startup time is going to be dramatically quick up because it doesn't have to
start up again. It's just resuming its
restoring that session. There you go. We're back in. The next button lets you manage the snapshots from this video. And at the moment we
don't have any snapshots. Now what does snapshot is? This is one thing that he's great about VMware in general, is you can take a backup of the entire virtual machine in
a particular point in time. I can take a snapshot backup
of the VM exactly as it is. And then if it crashes, I can just restore
to that snapshot exactly where it was
from that point in time. Sometimes you could take
a snapshot, for example, if you're gonna make a
major update on a VM, let's say you're going
to go and install some major software or hardware increase or
something like that, something that could cause
some impact your VM. Well, sometimes it
could be a good practice to take a snapshot of that VM before you
make that change. And then if you
make the changes, something goes wrong or something really
pie-shaped happens, then you can restore
back to where that snapshot walls to that
previous point in time. So that's what the
snapshots are. Therefore, you can easily take a snapshot by person needs
little camera button, he give it a meaningful name. So you can say snapshot
I want and you can say it's June 2030. You can say this is my
snapshot from June 2030. And take the snapshot
and then it will take a snapshot in time from that particular point in time and then you can recover
it if you saw a need to. That's that snapshot function. You've got this
button here which opens up the config area, which we'll cover
in a little bit. This is all the settings,
this button here. So you're gonna be able to
connect the network adapter. And these are some
different sorts of In working protocols,
networking terminologies. But essentially you
could share some of the same details of
your network card. You'll Wi-Fi card or your network card with a blue
cable that are on your Mac. Or you can create your
own sort of thing. You can also go and
customize the settings into here and play around
with some of these. You can actually set up a separate network
adapter altogether. If I wanted to know for this, you probably do want to have
a little bit more experience around networking in general. But if your VM is just fine,
this is all you need to do. You don't need to really
change anything at all. But if you are wanting to
set this up a little bit more as I home lab and maybe play a little bit around
the networking in some routing and different
switching configurations. Then maybe you want to come
here and play around with it. There's also some
advanced options. We can change the MAC address, which is like a unique
number for every computer, you can change some other
settings around your bandwidth, outgoing, incoming, how fast, how slow it can be, all of that. So it's actually
really, really cool. You can do a lot
of cool settings within this network
adapter setting, you think got some
hard drives settings. So here's the filename
of the actual disk. The disk itself is
called virtual disk VM. It sits inside of this VMware VM file that sits within my VMs folder and that sits on my
external hard drive. If you remember, I told you that we had our external hard drive. These were actually
pointed my VM2, so I created a
folder called VMs, and this is the actual
VM file itself. So it's 14 to two gig big. That's how big this
particular one is. And of course that will
grow up to about 60 gig, which is what I allocated
this disk false. So this is just more showing
you where that location is. Now when you do
shut down your VM, these grayed out areas will be available to you
so you can actually expand the size of that
disk if you need to. And then you can do some
fancy stuff here around the bus type if you want
to actually change that. Again, this is more
advanced features, but you can play around
with the different bass types if I want to. Also, this is your external
disk disconnect CD, DVD. So it's simulating a DVD. And you'll see that
we actually had our Windows 11 days preview. We're gonna say
disconnect from there. It doesn't need
that one anymore. When we go into here, it's actually no longer present. Now, DVD drive is now empty because we've just
disconnected it from here. So you're actually
configuring it's almost the same as when you have a city inside of your
computer and you press the button
to eject the disc. That's essentially
all that we're doing, but it's now software
bass sound cards. Do you want to disconnect
your SoundCloud or change some of your
sound card settings. Same deal with your video
and your camera USP. So if you have a USB drive that you
want to connect to it, then you can do that as well. Because at the moment, you will notice that I don't have
anything connected to this. It's just my C drive
and that's it. But I do have a
Untitled USB hard drive that is actually
connected to my Mac. You can actually share a connected device that is on your Mac, connected
to your Mac, and then make sure
that it passes through into your
Windows side itself. So you can actually
take advantage of those USB ports on your Mac
as you need to as well, Bluetooth settings
for your cameras, for other sorts of peripherals, as well as my microphone, my interface is my
audio settings, and then some further sharing
settings right there. And you can easily expand this, you can minimize
it as you need to. And then this button
on the very far right is to switch to what's
called the Unity mode, which we'll cover in
just a little while. There's some of the
settings that you've got available on the very top left. Now of course, the great
thing about having a VM, and you've got VMware Tools
and soldiers that can easily just resize our window. I can make it slightly bigger. And then the resolution
will update accordingly. That's actually
really, really nice. It's a nice feature to
have in the view area, you've got things such as
single unity full screen. You can also re-size, which is what we've
been showing you. That's just going to resize to fit or to a specific resolution, then you can show the task bar, the system try when
you're in Unity mode. Full-screen minibar, many
barrier full screen. So essentially it's
all got to do with the settings of how you're
going to be viewing this. Now single window is what
you're saying right here. This is a single window and that's where
Windows is running. It's running within
this window itself. View full-screen is going to make your Windows
full screen. If you're running on a
laptop or a desktop, it's going to actually
fill up the entire screen. And then you've got a full
immersive experience rather than having it within
this window itself. So some people will really liked that and sort of
makes sense if you're wanting to do a lot more
high-performance stuff on that Windows computer, on your virtual machine to actually have it in
full screen mode. The unity one is
actually going to integrate your windows
with your Mac. So what I mean by this is let's open up some applications. We're going to open up
our Windows Explorer. And when you open up
the recycling bin, I've got two windows that
are open right here. And then we're gonna
click on View unity. These actually integrates your Windows applications
into your Mac. So when you open up an
application on Windows, it just opens up as an
individual window within your Mac as opposed to saying the entire Windows installation, the entire Windows OS, it's got its own Start menu. We can open and close programs
right from there as well. So it is quite nice. It does
use a fair bit of resources, so just be aware, but it's a nice feature to have
and that's unity. And back on the
single window under the Virtual Machine tab
you've got suspend, which we already saw previously. You can then restart the VM, which is a standard restyle
that you always can do. You can shut down the VM and you can also do this feature
called parent or family, which I wouldn't generally
recommend using, also pulls the VM, which is not the
same as suspend. You just sort of freezing
it right now and then you can restart
it quite quickly. Settings, which we'll cover
two, this is of course, these all the settings that
we've looked at over here, snapshots which we've already covered a little bit, Get Info, get a bit more information about this particular VM,
the total size, how much disks, some notes, if you want to put some
notes on that VM itself. These are some of the
features that are only available in
the pro version. We can create a full
clone of the VM, essentially making an exact
copy of that VM and having a second VM created
exactly the same sand, clay and sand
control alt delete, essentially it's the same as you physically picking
up your keyboard. I've got myself a Mac keyboard. And if I press Control Alt, Delete on my Mac keyboard, it's the same as may
clicking on here, if I press F5, if I press
Caps Lock, et cetera, on my keyboard, it's really
sending that same command to my VM re-install VMware Tools install a virtual printer
if you wanted to. And then these are
all the same settings from network adapter all
the way under sharing, which corresponds to all of the buttons that
we've already seen before at the top of this individual window
that we've got here open. Let's now go finally into our Settings area and cover some of the stuff
that's listed in here. The general area. He's essentially that notes area that we just saw just before. Give you a bit of an
overview the name of the VM, the OS that it's running. Of course it's not relevant because it doesn't
understand what window is 11 years because of the version of VMware fusion, but it is running Windows 11. Start automatically when the VM, when VMware Fusion open, when you open up VM
Fusion on your Mac, doesn't automatically
startup that VM, yes or no. So you can actually
configure all of that, which is actually quite nice. Some sharing doing it
enabled shared folders. So what we mean by
these, if I click on this and I click on the Plus, I can actually
navigate to a folder that I've got on my Mac and make sure that that is
visible on my Windows side. So let's say if 100
share my documents, SIADH, It's now being shared. If I click on this, my desktop, open that up and there is my documents and that
is literally on my Mac. So this makes it the easiest
way to be able to transfer files between the windows
and on the Mac side. And you're essentially
creating those folders, be that pathway between the two. So if I copy some
files in today, if I make any edits to that
folder inside documents, then it's actually doing
that on my Mac side, default applications is
an area where you can configure essentially how
your application is function. So in our case, you can open up your Mac falls and web links
using your Windows apps. So because we are
here on Windows, you can actually interact with Mac applications if you want to do the same thing
the other way round, you can interact
with Windows files and web links on the Mac side. And this really works
really well when it comes to unity
and everything. If you're wanting to use that
setup applications menu, if you remember that window in Unity where you can
have the Start Menu, you can actually
add applications into there if you want to. Keyboard and mouse,
are you going to use this standard profile? Do you want to add
and change anything here with regards to
your keyboard and mouse, or just use the
standard Windows. Or just use your standard
Mac keyboard and mouse as you need
to processor and memory here is where
we actually can adjust the processor and
memory of our VM. Now at the moment you will
see that I cannot do it. And that is because you can't do it unless you
shut down your VM. So you need your VM shutdown to be able to alter these settings. Will come back to this
in a little while. Display. What are your
display settings? Are there any specific settings that you want to change with regards to your display,
your graphics card. Do you want to adjust
any network adapters? We sort of looked at that
just before hard drive. Do you want to increase
the hard drive? So we looked at this, that
this is my VM dk fall. They are disc sitting
on top of here, sitting within our VMs folder, sitting on my
external hard drive. But what about making the
disk bigger or smaller? We'll cover that in
a little while also. Do you want to add
additional city DVDs if you do want to connect, it will do want
to actually mount another disk or disk image
so that it appears on our actual Windows
side and economic tick that how do you want
your sound card upright? You can actually configure
all of these settings, actually make your
sound work or not. If you're playing music from
within the window side, do you want to hear
it on the sound card on the speakers of your Mac? What about your USB drive? So I've got a number
of connections into my Mac currently. So I've got my USB charger, I've got a microphone, I've got a audio interface, and I've also got a USB hard
drive all connected into it. So I can actually connect all of those and
actually say yes, take all of those and then
they will then become visible on the Windows side. Because at the
moment, if I open up my Windows Explorer on Windows or there's nothing
actually connected here. I'm not really using anything. I'm not using the microphone, which is actually this
microphone right here. I'm not using this
on the Windows side. Windows doesn't know about this microphone that's
connected to my Mac. But if I went and
actually change that particular setting, then I can actually take that. And then that
microphone will then become available
for me to use as AI application as a hardware
resource on my Windows side. Same deal with printers, same deal with your camera. Do you want the VMware
fusion to see the camera? Okay, yes or no. And there is my camera. That's what it's
gonna look like. Because really, if you're
gonna say use a video call, if you want to have
a video called from your Windows login, you need to give it permissions
to use the camera that is perhaps built-in to your MacBook or your MacBook Pro
the startup day. So how do you want your
windows to boot up? So by default is going
to be on your hard disk, is gonna load windows. Do you want it to start up on your CD or DVD
when it starts up, this is more when you have an
external device connected, for example, to your
Window side of things, do you want it to
start up in the bios? You wanted to start up
booting the windows. This perhaps on your CD, DVD drive or do you want the
startup in your hard drive? We want to go
through the details. I'll just leave that
as the default, unless you really
want to get fancy and start booting
up different sorts of devices on your
Windows installation, do you want to look
at using encryption? So encryption is
currently unavailable because our VM is
currently powered on. But we can cover that
in a little while once we actually do go and
power that VM on. What about virtual
machine compatibilities? What it says here is that
this virtual machine is using 100 version 19. This provides the
best performance and features available
in VMware fusion. So essentially it's
just making the VM compatible with a specific
version of VMware fusion. So if you're gonna
be using different versions of VMware Fusion, perhaps on other computers. If you're compatibility is not in sync, then it might not run. For example, if I go and
upgrade this two version 20, let's say VMware version 20. Then I'm running
an old version of VMware fusion on
another computer. I can't use that VM on that older version
of VMware Fusion, they only to be compatible
with each other. Vmware Fusion needs
to be able to see. The previous versions
of this hardware. So that's really
what that means. Isolation is an
area we can enable disabled drag and drop copy and paste between the two platforms. Can you copy and paste
something on the Mac sites? I copy a file and then go into Windows and
paste it into there. So really a cool feature. So by default they
are turned on, but you can actually
turn those off and change those by
shutting down that VM. And then you've got some further advanced
features in here. You can do synchronized
time, it can pass power. These are more advanced
administrative features, so have a look through those if you are going to use them. For the most part, a
lot of people will not actually need to
go into this area, but you can if you want to. What we're going to
now do is we're going to shut down our VM. You can shut it down by
going into the stat menu. You can also go into
Virtual Machine shutdown. Yes, I do want to
shut down my VM. With my VM shutdown, I can now go back
into my settings and go into processor
and memory. And you'll see that now that
I can actually change this. So we've allocated two
gig of RAM to this. Maybe I want to give
it a little bit more. Let's actually grab this and
maybe we want to give it three gig of RAM or we
can adjust the processes. Of course, remember
that the more RAM, the more processes you add, then that will have impact
the performance of your Mac. What you're gonna find this,
you're definitely gonna find this if you've already
been playing with it, you'll already know this. But if you're gonna play
with these in the future, when you start
using your Windows, if you're going to pump
up these resources, you will notice that there
is a bit of a performance hit on your Mac side
and that's completely normal because you're gonna
be distributing some of those RAM and hard
drive and CPU resources from your Mac to now, you'll VM running Windows, so that's gonna be
completely normal. So just be aware of this. So let's just say the
processor is true but will increase the memory to three. We can just go back
and what don't. We also just added a little
bit more hardest space. You can also write here
increase the hard disk space. You can make it 80. If you say I want
to make it 120, apply, you will then have to
go into the Windows side and expand the disk from
within your control panel. But we can just revert it
will leave that as 60. But what we will do, we're
gonna click on Add device. So you're not limited
to just this. You can actually add
additional network adapters, add additional drives, add
all these other things. In our case, we're gonna
say we're going to add a new hard disk. Add, we've now got
a brand new disk. How big do we want these to be? Well, let's say we want
to give it 50 gig apply. We've now got to hard disk. We're going to go show
all you see under the removable drives you've got hard disk and hard disk to, this is our original at 60 gig. This is the new one at 50 gig. I've just added an
additional disk to my VM, which we will play with
in a little while. If we go back into encryption, we can now enable encryption. And what you can see is
it says you can secure the contents of these
virtual machine by encrypting its contents, you'll follows will
be encrypted using a passage you must set if
you forget your password, your data will be lost. This is completely optional. A lot of people will not
even bother with encryption. But if you're an environment perhaps in a workplace
that he's very, very strict with the security
and encryption of data. Then maybe you want to
have a look at doing this. In our case, we're
not going to do it, but just be aware
that it is there. If you do want to
encrypt and essentially scramble the Dada that is
on your virtual machine. All right, So with these
settings now changes, go on, PowerVM back on. We're gonna login. What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go into my start menu and I'm
going to type in system, going to open up our
system settings. You'll now notice that the
installed RAM is three gig, which means it's
actually now identified that extra one gig that
we have given to that VM. He's the processor. Here are the two processes, if you remember, we've
allocated two processes to it. If you want to change
that, you will then see that accordingly. But what about that
other disk section he called Computer Management. We're gonna go into Computer
Management because by default what's gonna
happen is if I go into my Windows Explorer, go into here, I've
still got my C drive. I don't have any
other disk and that's because you need
Windows to be able to refresh the actual
disk scanning. And that way it'll
actually show up. The easiest way to do
this is under control. And under Computer Management
you're going to disk management. There you go. It's actually found another
D studies 50 gig big. Here it is, we're
gonna say, okay, now you go through
the standard steps of creating that disc, actually formatting it,
assigning it a drive letter. Next and Finish. Now this is a little bit more advanced and this
sort of falls into the camp of Windows
Administration. But that's the simple steps. And now you will say that
E drive is now in there. And that is my 50 gig
drive and there is my original 60 giggles 60 gig
odd drive for my C drive.
7. What's next?: Now it is completely up to you. We've given you a lot of
information on this class. We covered a lot
of material that I had to download it,
how to install it, how to start building your own virtual machines
on VMware fusion. But now it's up to you
the best way to learn, the best way that I
learned, especially go and play with it yourself. Go and get your Mac,
download VMware Fusion, install or configure it and start building your
own virtual machines. And why did you come
back and let me know how you're going if you're getting
stuck, reach out to me. And if you did find
this class helpful, please also do give me
a positive writing, maybe leave me a nice comment. I do also have a whole heap of other classes on my profile. You can go check them
out on other things. Take some of those may
be helpful to you, but that's the end of
this Skillshare class. Really appreciate it. It's now your turn
to go and try it. Let me know how you go. Thanks again. We will
see you next time.
Emilio Aguero, ...all things tech
