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Best Practices
- Don't register a VM virtual machine for DHCP on wireless.
- When copying or backing up a VM image:
- Make sure the VM virtual machine is powered off.
- Do not copy the lockfile directory (the only subdirectory that ends in ".lck").
- When restoring from backup use move, not copy. This prevents issues with duplicate Mac Addresses on the same network.
- Treat each VM as a standalone computer for security purposes. Install virus scanning software. Take regular OS updates.
- Enable "Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system" via the VMware Tools installed on the virtual machine.
- Networking: use NAT Networking. This should be the default setting for your virtual machines.
Advanced users, particularly running Linux guests, may discover they want or need to deal with the additional complexity of setting up a Bridged network interface. - Carefully plan your disk allocations. Do not over-allocate your disk. It is dangerous to tell VMware to make images that, if they all grew to their full size, would take up more disk space than you have free. If this happens, VMware may pop up an alert warning you when you're about to use up more space than you have. That would give you a chance to free up disk space or exit cleanly. We don't recommend relying on the warning. There's no guarantee it will appear before bad things (data loss or corruption) happen.
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