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The project kicked off in March of 2008. IS&T expects to announce support for Phase I during Q1 of FY09. Details regarding additional phases of the project will be determined as we progress through Phase I. We will share those timelines as they are established.

Access: 

Access  Access to this wiki is currently limited to members of the MIT community  

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Decisions: 

The team has agree agreed to support the NAT (network address translation) network configuration.

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• IS&T VMware Workstation and Fusion release project underway
• IS&T VMware Workstation and Fusion Support Statement

Minutes 

• VMware meeting minutes from March 7
• VMware meeting minutes from March 14
• VMware meeting minutes from March 28
• Meeting Minutes - April 11
• VMware meeting minutes from April 25

Documentation

• Licensing Issues
• Security Recommendations & and Best Practices
  • Production Document
  • Wiki Draft
• Known Issues
• Stock Answers
  • Wiki Draft Stock Answers (Still open for new additions).
  • Production Stock Answers (live in itinfo)
• Why Use VMware
• VMware Backup
• Product Front Door - Version pages will be listed on here once they're live
• VMware at MIT: Installing and Using Guest Operating Systems
  • Production doc
  • Wiki Draft

• Mac OS X
  • MIT Documentation
    • Version Page
    • Installing or Upgrading VMware Fusion 1.1.1
      • Production Doc
      • Wiki Draft
    • Creating a Windows Virtual Machine with VMware Fusion
      • Wiki Draft
    • Booting into MIT's Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) with VMware Fusion
      • Wiki Draft
  • From VMware
    • VMware Fusion 1.1.1 Release Notes
    • Getting Started with VMware Fusion
    • Guest Operating System Installation Guide
    • VMware Workstation User's Manual
    • Virtual Machine Mobility Planning Guide
    • VMware Workstation 6.0.3 Release Notes
    • Choosing the Right Virtual Machine Settings
    • Notes on Using the Beta VMwareImporterTool on Your Mac ( Community Document )
    • A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion ( Community Document )
    • A Power User's Guide to VMware Fusion ( Community Document )
    • Understanding Networking in VMware Fusion ( Community Document )
    • Converting a Parallels Virtual Machine to Run in VMware Fusion
    • Resizing a Virtual Disk for Windows Guests ( Community Document ) Yikes, that's scary!
  • Third Party Tools
    • VMX Extras - GUI for editing some common vmx file options
    • vdiskmanager GUI - GUI wrapper for vmware-vdiskmanager
• Linux
  • MIT Documentation
    • Version Page
    • VMware Workstation 6.0.x for Linux: Installing or Upgrading
      • Production Doc 
      • Wiki Draft
    • Installing VMware Tools in a Windows XP virtual machine under Linux without installing Workstation on the host
  • From VMware
    • VMware Workstation Installation Manual (pdf)
    • VMware GuestOS Install (pdf)
• Windows
  • MIT Documentation
    • Version Page
    • VMware Workstation 6.0.2 for Windows: Installing or Upgrading