You will then have your saved VNC connection in VNC Viewer that you can access whenever you need to remotely control the virtual machine and all you need to do is double click the connection name to connect to your VM. For our example we will be using VNC Viewer. Once you have your VNC software installed you will then setup a new connection using the IP address of your host computer. You can use the ipconfig command on your host computer to find your IP address.

The trick here is to use the IP address of your host computer running VMware Workstation rather than the IP address of the virtual machine. Now you will need to download and install VNC client such as the free VNC Viewer software by Real VNC. Then click the OK button and you are ready for the next step. Next you will click on the checkbox that says Enable VNC connections and enter a password that will be used each type you connect to this virtual machine. To configure VNC access on a virtual machine, you will need to go to its settings and then go to the Options tab and click on VNC Connections.

VMware Workstation VNC Connection Configuration Of course you will need to use the software to start the virtual machines but after that you can then close the software and connect to your VMs using your VNC client software. VMware Workstation will let you use VNC connections on your virtual machines so you can control them without needing to have the VMware Workstation software running. You can even have multiple VNC connections open to many different computers at the same time. If you have ever used any type of VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software, then you know how easy it is to control remote computers on your network. And if you want to setup network connectivity between your host and guest VMs, you will need to do a little configuration on both the host and guest as seen in this video. For the most part this is fine, but you need to have the VMware Workstation manager open to do so.

If you are a VMware Workstation user then you most likely control your virtual machines by opening a console screen to each one.

This way you can test various things without worrying about causing your main computer any harm because you can simply roll back to a virtual machine snapshot or delete the VM itself. Virtualization is all about being able to run multiple computers with varying operating systems and software configurations.

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