
Workstation User’s Manual
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Virtualmachineperformancemightbeslowerifyourvirtualharddiskisonanetwork
drive.Forbestperformance,besurethevirtualmachine’sfolderisonalocaldrive.
However,ifotherusersneedtoaccessthisvirtualmachine,considerplacingthevirtual
machinefilesinalocationthatisaccessibletothem.See“SharingVi
rt
ualMachines
withOtherUsers”onpage 227.
Forinformationaboutthefilesstoredinthevirtualmachinefolder,see“FilesThat
MakeUpaVirtualMachine”onpage 97.
Virtual Hardware Compatibility Levels
Thisoptionisavailableforcustomconfigurationsonly.
WhenyoumakeaselectionfromtheHardwareCompatibilitylist,youseealistof
otherVMwareproductsandversionsthatarecompatiblewithyourselection.Youalso
seealistoffeaturesthatarenotavailableforthatversion.
Ifoneofthefea
tureco
mpatibilitycheckboxesisavailablefortheversionyouselect,you
canselectthecheckboxtoseealistoftheadditionallimitations.
Number of Processors
Thisoptionisavailableforcustomconfigurationsonly.Settingthevirtualmachineto
havemultiplevirtualCPUs(uptofourforVMwareWorkstation7)issupportedonly
forhostmachineswithatleasttwologicalprocessors.(IfyouarecreatingaWorkstation
4virtualmachine,youdonotseethispanel.)
Thefo
llowingareallconsid
eredtohavetwologicalprocessors:
Asingle‐processorhostwithhyperthreadingenabled
Asingle‐processorhostwithadual‐coreCPU
AmultiprocessorhostwithtwoCPUs,regardlessofwhethertheyaredual‐coreor
havehyperthreadingenabled
N
OTEIfyouplantodeploythevirtualmachineonaUSBdrive,first,createthevirtual
machineonyourlocalharddisk.YoucanthenusePocketACEfeaturestodeploythe
virtualmachine.
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