On the screen in front of him, the production server was a cascading waterfall of red error logs. The proprietary logistics software, "LogiCore," had crashed. The vendor had gone bust three years ago, and the only guy who knew how the database worked had retired to a boat in the Caribbean.

"I can't just patch it. The libraries are tangled like spaghetti. I need to roll back, but the snapshot is corrupted."

When setting up Ubuntu in VMware, you generally have two choices for the "image":

"For now. It’s a virtual machine running off a template. I’ll migrate the data to a permanent server tonight, but this gets the trucks moving."

The bridge that allows the Guest (Ubuntu) and Host to communicate efficiently.