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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/04
It is well into 2014 now, and VMware Fusion still has no way to Clone a VM like VMware Workstation can.
Too bad. Luckily, IrishMike posted a workaround for this about 7 years ago.
The easiest is if you keep these names very similar:
- Display Name of the VM (that shows up in your Virtual Machine Library)
- Name of the directory
- Name of the .VMDK files
- Name fo the .VMX files
I do moste of the editing from the console, and used this trick to edit text files from the console.
These are the steps to clone from “master” to “clone” with a little bit of post-editing from my side:
Re: How do we “copy” an entire virtual machine?
- Copy the directory holding all the “master” VMware Fusion files to a new one (lets call the directories “master.vmware” and “clone.vmware”).
- Inside the “clone.vmware” directory, change all the files named “master.” to “clone.”
- Inside the “clone.vmware” directory, remove these subdirectories if they exist:
– any directory ending in “.lck”
– Applications
– appListCache
– caches
- Then in the same directory, edit the .vmx file changing all occurrences of “master” to “clone”
– any “fileName” entry
– any “displayName” entry
– any “nvram” entry
– any “extendedConfigFile”
– any “checkpoint.vmState”
- Also in the same directory, edit the main .vmdk file and change the mane of the file from “master-flat.vmdk” to “clone-flat.vmdk”
- Then from the Finder or from VMware Fusion, open the .vmx file
- Finally tell VMware Fusion that you “copied” the VM, so it gets a new hardware ID.
Then we’re off and running.
–jeroen
via: VMware Communities: How do we “copy” an entire virtual….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
There is an interesting post by TinkerTry IT @ home | VMware Workstation 10 released Sept. 4 2013, but you might be fine with the free VMware Player 6 Plus that helped me making up my decision what to buy.
Basically you have these products on the non-server side of things:
(Note: you can find many downloads through Google search for site:www.vmware.com/go)
I bought these:
- VMware Fusion 6
- VMware Workstation 10
My reasoning: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Interesting read: vmware – Moving Fusion VMs to ESXi – Ask Different.
I was kind of expecting something like this, as VMware has been notoriously bad at proving Mac OS X tools (whereas their VMware Workstation for Linux is on par with their Windows product, Linux also lacks a vSphere Client and a standalone VMware vCentre Converter).
Good to have my expectations confirmed. Not so good that this is a tedious process.
Note that you need twice the disk size on your Mac, as you recreate the vmdk files on your Mac in a format that ESXi understands.
Oh well…
Note there are even more tedious ways, but good to know they exist.
I really wish VMware Fusion could do what you can do with VMware Workstation to manage your ESXi hosts (including Free ESXi) & VMs.
–jeroen
via:
More links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
If you ever get the error message
This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Fusion.
or
This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Workstation.
Then the solution is really simple: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Edit 20250102: added various “[Wayback/Archive]” archival links, VMware information, amended TUWA location, and added alternative csboot.zip download location on the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine download is broken and the original gone)
A really long time ago, I posted in [Wayback/Archive] history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers indicating there was a [Wayback/Archive] Hard Disk Image of MS-DOS 6.22 with Pascal for Computer Studies. In fact, that is an IMG file of a DOS hard disk. And this posts shows how to use it with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X. The is a hard disk image contains:
- A full version of MS-DOS 6.22 (MSDN Original)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0 (main)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0
- Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5
- Microsoft QuickPascal 1.0
Edit 20250102: does not work under VMware Fusion when you run Apple Silicon. Not figured out a performant alternative yet. Will try figuring out later.
DOS on a Mac
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/29
While getting a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement, I upgraded from VMware Fusion 4 to VMware Fusion 6 and found out it is really easy to Clean Up And Shrink VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines With Ease | The Webernets.
That saved me bout 100 gigabyte across in total.
Sometimes tiny things not much advertised make an upgrade worthwhile.
Note that as usual some restrictions apply (like not having snapshots, having a backup, and the machines needing to be in the “shut down state), but it went really really smooth (probably the SSD helps a lot here).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13
Another one from the “missed schedule” series, this one was originally scheduled for 20130927.
These articles were not very clear on the actual steps to take:
The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
Just in case I ever need to do this again: How to downgrade my VM to Hardware Version 8 in Fusion 5 and Workstation 9 – SkytapDocs.
It is easy, and I needed to move a VMware Workstation 9 VM to a machine that had only VMware Fusion 4 installed (various reasons, mainly backward compatibility with some very old Windows VMs that VMware Fusion 6 complains about but which as going to be phased out “real soon now“).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
(Originally scheduled for 20130930, so it made it to the Missed Schedule list as well)
On my research list, as I want to do this in Windows 7 as well as windows 8: retina macbook pro – Resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (VMware Fusion 5) – Ask Different.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/27
So I won’t forget: VMware Fusion 4+ keeps the vmnet1 and vmnet8 settings in this file:
/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/networking
–jeroen
via: VMware KB: Modifying the DHCP settings of vmnet1 and vmnet8 in Fusion.
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