Running a VMware Player Virtual Machine to run a Driver Station

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Some things to watch out for:

I work primarily with ESX and ESXi, so I don't know if workstation has this, but ensure USB passthrough is enabled, so the Virtual can access the controllers.

If you use bridging, the field may authenticate the traffic packet based on MAC address, and if the VM interface MAC is encapsulated in the payload, but the Physical MAC's interface is registered as sending the packet, the field radio could reject/drop those packets. I think this is highly unlikely, as the field network last year was a simple configuration.

The same applies if you are using NAT'ting, except replace everywhere I said MAC with IP address. Because different organizations have produces all of these different items at a nearly free to FIRST level, I HIGHLY doubt this is integrated in to the Field.

Those are the big ones I can really think of.
Make sure you have vmtools installed so as to optimize your video, and virtual hardware to hardware mapping.

Hope this helps, and let me know if you have nay other questions.
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