Adapted From: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/AdminTips/Network/UsingXPasarouter.html on September 12, 2008.  (Saved here because web pages have a nasty habit of vanishing.)

Add a router to your network with Windows XP Professional:

Install an additional network card in the box and then configure the registry setting below it it is able to route IP packets from one interface to another.

Regedit:

The VMWare Player BIOS prompt is way too short to allow you to hit Control-G to send input to the VM, and F8 before Windows starts (or to send F2 before the OS boots).

With the latest edition of VMWare Fusion, there is a .VMX setting that will force the BIOS to start (bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE").  This will probably show up in the PC/Linux edition eventually, but here's a work-around that I've found.

First, edit your VMX and tell it that your boot drive is NOT present (something like scsi0:0.present = "FALSE").

This shows much more than just View/Show Hidden Devices does, without setting the environment variable.

I like to use a VM with its NIC bridged to a real NIC.  Sometimes I work at a client site where there's a Windows domain policy that blocks this.  Here's the work-around:

ATTENTION: This is what I did on MY computer.  You'll probably want to change this for use on YOUR computer.

Using VMWare Player (version ?) and VirtualBox (version 2.0)

Note: Items marked with "+" are items I did in advance, so I don't have to do them on each conversion attempt.

From Original VMWARE GUEST:

Once in a while, I'll search my web site / blog and the search will fail, even though I know the term exists in a page.  Here's some information on Drupal page indexing.

<SCRIPT language=javascript>
var base_foo;
function foo(yourname){
    alert('Hello ' + yourname);
}

base_foo = foo;

foo = function(yourname){
    alert('(overide) Hello ' + yourname);
}
</SCRIPT>

From http://dataerror.blogspot.com/2005/08/javascript-function-overriding-part-2.html