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- Review the Known Issues to avoid any known pitfalls.
- Back up your system. Before beginning any installation, IS&T recommends you have a current and complete backup of your existing system. While we have tested the install process, there is an infinite number of possible system configurations, and some may cause problems.
- Note: 64 bit virtual machine guests will only run on 64 bit host operating systems. 64 bit hosts will support both 32 bit and 64 bit guest virtual machines. For more information see: Vmware's knowledge base article: Hardware and Firmware Requirements for 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems
- Carefully plan your disk allocations. Do not over-allocate your disk. It is dangerous to tell VM ware 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.
- Obtain the necessary install media for your guest OS. Note: IS&T provided student downloads of Windows XP must be installed within five days or they will expire.
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Installing
Wiki Markup - Install/configure the auto-update service for your guest operating system, if needed. For more information, see: Red Hat Network and MIT Windows Automatic Update Service (WAUS)
- Install available OS updates and virus protection software to secure your machine.
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- Security Recommendations & Best Practices
- Networking Info Link TBA
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- [VMware's Getting Started with VMware Fusion|http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/ist/products/vmware/fusion-getstart.pdf] \ [PDF\] or [] or VMware's Workstation User's Manual|http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/ist/products/vmware/ws6-manual.pdf] \ [PDF\]