Vmware

Over Remote X
(such as LTSP) the full screen feature will be disabled. It might be beneficial to let the virtual computer

Networking

The vmware install and configure scripts are pretty decent for helping you set up your networking. When you have more than one network card, it is important to connect the virtual machine to the correct ethernet device. If you go back and create more devices, the names might not be named as you expect them to be.

Key combinations

Control-alt is the vmware special instruction to give the input devices back to the host. Unfortunately, control-alt is a very very common key combination. Control-alt-f1 to fwhatever takes you to your command line prompts in linux, Control-alt backspace restarts the x server, there may be more.