Glossary – VMware GSX 3 User Manual

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Add Hardware Wizard — A point-and-click interface for adding virtual hardware
to a virtual machine. To launch the wizard, power off the virtual machine, open the
virtual machine settings editor, then click Add. It prompts you for information for
configuring the hardware, suggesting default values in most cases.
See also Virtual machine settings editor.

Bridged networking — A type of network connection between a virtual machine
and the rest of the world. Under bridged networking, a virtual machine appears as an
additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as the host.
See also Host-only networking.

Configuration — See Virtual machine configuration file.

Console — See VMware Virtual Machine Console.

Current virtual machine — A virtual machine created under the current version
of GSX Server, ESX Server or Workstation.
See also Legacy virtual machine.

Custom networking — Any type of network connection between virtual machines
and the host that does not use the default bridged, host-only or network address

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