Different Kinds of Adapter while installing VM



Vlance — This network adapter is not optimized but will work will a wide variety of guest operating systems, except Windows Vista.



vmxnet — This network adapter is optimized. It requires that VMware tools be installed

within the guest operating system.



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You should have an idea before building your VM as to the following resource requirements to meet your needs:

• Number of virtual processors (choose more than one virtual CPU if your applications support multi-

threading)

• Total processing power needed (in MHz) to support OS and application requirements

• Total memory...