If you are installing from a CD-ROM, the installation program may start automatically. Follow the instructions on screen and in the user manual for your new software. Cutting and pasting Be sure you have installed and started VMware Tools in your virtual machine. In Windows, you will see a VMware Tools icon in the system tray when VMware Tools is running. When VMware Tools is running, you can copy and paste between applications in the virtual machine and the host computer or between two virtual machines.
Persistent disks behave exactly like conventional disk drives on a computer.
All writes to a persistent disk are written out permanently to the disk as soon as the guest operating system writes the data. All changes to a nonpersistent mode disk are discarded after that VMware Workstation session is powered down. When you use undoable mode, you have the option later of keeping or discarding changes you have made during a working session. Until you decide, the changes are saved in a redo-log file. You can use the configuration editor to change the disk mode for your virtual machine.