Laboratory No.

Aim: Setting Up & Configuring Two Different Hypervisors

Theory:

• A hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor, VMM,) is computer software, firmware or

hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
• A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine,
and each virtual machine is called a guest machine.
• The hypervisor presents the guest operating systems with a virtual operating platform and
manages the execution of the guest operating systems.
• Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems may share the virtualized hardware
resources: for example, Linux, Windows, and macOS instances can all run on a single physical
x86 machine.
• This contrasts with operating-system-level virtualization, where all instances (usually called
containers) must share a single kernel, though the guest operating systems can differ in user
space, such as different Linux distributions with the same kernel.

• Type-1, native or bare-metal hypervisors

These hypervisors run directly on the host's hardware to control the hardware and to manage
guest operating systems. For this reason, they are sometimes called bare metal hypervisors. The
first hypervisors, which IBM developed in the 1960s, were native hypervisors.

• Type-2 or hosted hypervisors

These hypervisors run on a conventional operating system (OS) just as other computer
programs do. A guest operating system runs as a process on the host. Type-2 hypervisors
abstract guest operating systems from the host operating system.
Performance:

To install VMware Workstation on a Windows host:

1. Log in to the Windows host system as the Administrator user or as a user who is a member of the local
Administrators group.

Open the folder where the VMware Workstation installer was downloaded. The default location is the
Downloads folder for the user account on the Windows host.

Note: The installer file name is similar to VMware-workstation-full-xxxx-xxxx.exe, where xxxx-xxxx is

the version and build numbers.

2. Right-click the installer and click Run as Administrator.

3. Select a setup option:

o Typical: Installs typical Workstation features. If the Integrated Virtual Debugger for Visual
Studio or Eclipse is present on the host system, the associated Workstation plug-ins are
installed.
o Custom: Lets you select which Workstation features to install and specify where to install
them. Select this option if you need to change the shared virtual machines directory, modify
the VMware Workstation Server port, or install the enhanced virtual keyboard driver. The
enhanced virtual keyboard driver provides better handling of international keyboards and
keyboards that have extra keys.

4. Follow the on-screen instructions to finish the installation.

5. Restart the host machine.

To install VMware Player on a Linux host:

Note: VMware Player for Linux is available as a .bundle download from the VMware Download
Center. The Linux bundle installer starts a GUI wizard on most Linux distributions. On some Linux
distributions, the bundle installer starts a command-line wizard instead of a GUI wizard.

1. Log in to the Linux host with the user account that you plan to use with VMware Player.
2. Open a terminal interface. For more information, see Opening a command or shell prompt
(1003892).
3. Change to root. For example:

su root

Note: The command that you use depends on your Linux distribution and configuration.

4. Change directories to the directory that contains the VMware Player bundle installer file. The
default location is the Download directory for the user which initiated the download from the
VMware Download Center.
5. Run the appropriate Player installer file for the host system. For example:

sh VMware-Player-e.x.p-xxxx.architecture.bundle --option

Where e.x.p-xxxx is the version and build numbers, architecture is i386 or x86_64, and option
is a command line option.
 The command line options available are:

o --gtk
Opens the GUI-based VMware installer, which is the default option.

o --console
Use the terminal for installation.

o --custom
Use this option to customize the locations of the installation directories and set the
hard limit for the number of open file descriptors.

o --regular
Shows installation questions that have not been answered before or are required. This
is the default option.

o --ignore-errors or -I
Allows the installation to continue even if there is an error in one of the installer
scripts. Because the section that has an error does not complete, the component might
not be properly configured.

o --required
Shows the license agreement only and then proceeds to install Player.
6. Accept the license agreement.

Note: If you are using the --console option or installing VMware Player on a Linux host that
does not support the GUI wizard, press Enter to scroll through and read the license
agreement or type q to skip to the yes/no prompt.

7. Follow the on-screen instructions or prompts to finish the installation.

8. Restart the Linux host.

After installation:

On Windows host systems:

• The installer creates a desktop shortcut, a quick launch shortcut, or a combination of

these options in addition to a Start Menu item.
• To start VMware Player on a Windows host system, select Start > Programs >
VMware Player.

On Linux host systems:

• VMware Player can be started from the command line on all Linux distributions.
• On some Linux distributions, VMware Player can be started in the GUI from the
System Tools menu under Applications.
• To start VMware Player on a Linux host system from the command line, run the
vmplayer command in a terminal window. For more information, see Opening a
command or shell prompt (1003892). For example:

/usr/bin/vmplayer &
Note: Students are Informed to Set Up & Configure Two Different
Hypervisors, with the Installation process Screenshots and its steps written
below the screenshot.

Conclusion: Hence, I have Installed & Configured Two Different

Hypervisors.