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Running vmdk (vmware) images on Virtual Box

I had one final vmdk image I use for Windows dev that I wanted to use in VirtualBox instead of VMWare. VirtualBox makes this dead simple but a few things to look out for, since you might get a BSOD that is hard to figure out: 1. Uninstall VMWare tools...

Published 07-25-2011 10:58 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: VMWare, VirtualBox

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) VMWare Solution

I recently committed to using Ubuntu for everything, so I thought I could just run my current development vm's (vmdk files) from my external hard drive as if nothing had really changed. Problem: I kept getting a 'File not found' error when...

Published 03-29-2011 1:48 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: VMWare, Linux, Ubuntu

Cloning A VMWare Base VMDK As Pre-Allocated

I cloned a VMWare base server disk I have that is pre-allocated, but when I went into the file structure found that it wasn’t cloned as pre-allocated. I found a reference that told how to use the command line utility to do that: vmware-vdiskmanager...

Published 04-19-2010 2:08 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: VMWare

Virtual Errors From The Crypt

Resuming a Win 2K3 session on VMWare 6.5.2 and got an interesting error: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx) NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-156735/bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemCpt.c:850 A log file is available in "F:\VirtualMachines\VMWare...

Published 10-24-2009 9:03 PM by Michael Nichols

Filed under: VMWare

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Cloning A VMWare Base VMDK As Pre-Allocated

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