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# Subject: RE: '''How to allow students to obtain free VMware Workstation 12 Pro for use at home ''' (eg. SSDs)<br><br>'''*** REQUIRED FOR INSTRUCTORS TO DO THEMSELVES - NO ONE WILL DO THIS FOR YOU ***'''<br><br>Students are entitled to free licensed version of VMware Workstation 12 Pro.<br>It is available for ALL OPS235 / OPS335 students, but particularly useful for students that have SSD drive and want to work from home of notebook computer. You, as an instructor NEED to send Clive (e-mail:<br>clive.beetge@senecacollege.ca) with just usernames (can be done via Blackboard or moodle) students. I recommend you also post an announcement for your student like this:<br><br>"All OPS235/OPS335 students in my course is allowed a free version of VMware Workstation 12 Pro for their personal use. This particularly useful for students that have Solid State Drives and want to work on OPS235 labs at homeusing VMware Workstation 12 Pro. I have e-mailed the administrator your seneca userid, and you should be getting an email with a long subject line.<br><br>WARNING: Check your quarantine and spam filters to see if this email gets trapped since spam filters may automatically trap suspicious emails with long subject lines.<br><br>Open that e-mail to obtain your VMware Wordstation 12 Pro software and registration key."<br><br>FYI<br>Insructor's Name
# It is possible to run VMware VMs from the command line using the following steps <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">Create a directory for links to your VMware VMs
# mkdir ~/links
# VMware on Linux requires Secure Boot to be disabled on the Linux host otherwise VMware cannot run CentOS VMs: [ [https://communities.vmware.com/message/2461448#2461448 Comment #5 talks about disabling Secure Boot to make VMware on Linux boot VMs] ].
=Current Recent Semester: Winter / Summer 2017=
# There seems to be a procedure that works if you are booting Centos7 from your removable SATA drive in your labs and it doesn't connect to the Internet...<br>Note: If you cannot connect, you should see on the top right-hand corner before you login such as: '''<span style="font-size:1.5em;font-family:monospace;">[...]</span>'''<br>This means there is no Internet connection.<br><br>If that is the case, perform the following steps:<br><ol type="a"><li> Quickly press the power button (do not hold it down!). This should put it in suspend mode. You can confirm it is in suspend mode if the blue power light is flashing.</li><li>Wait a few seconds, then press the power button again. This will go out of suspend mode. You can confirm is is not in suspend mode if blue power light is solid (not flashing).</li><li>In a few seconds, the symbol on the top right-hand side should appear like: <span style="border-color:black;border-width:2px;border-style:solid;"> </span>.<br>This symbol means that you can connect to the Internet.</li></ol><br><br>
