Questions tagged [vmware-vmdk]
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OVF disk formats
I thought that VMs exported as OVF were supposed to be completely portable, but now I see there are difference disk formats
I used the VMware ovf tool to export a VMX to OVF. The disk file created ...
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Force a downsize of a vmdk disk
I have a thick virtual disk (vmdk) file that is purely just a file-store. I currently have it configured to take up 2TB, however, there is only one 900GB partition on it. I read somewhere that the ...
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Extract files from VMDK
Is there a command-line tool to extract files from a VMDK file? WinImage seems to be able to do it, but it's GUI only.
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Rescue *.vmdk by wrapping it in new, working *.vmdk [closed]
I have a vmdk (VMware virtual [NTFS] formatted disk) beyond repair (It's not mine, I don't know exactly what happened).
I'm trying to get some files off of it using Plan B as outlined here:
http://...
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Best practice of expanding a linux partition in VMWare
What is the best practice in expanding a linux partition in VMWare? My example scenario would be: I have an /storage partition initially setup with 100GB. In the course of 6 months, I am required to ...
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how to run a vmdk image on another 64 bit machine which does not have vt support
I have a CentOS 64 as Guest OS installation (basically the vmdk file) which was created on a machine which had Virtualization Support enabled in BIOS.
How ever I have another machine where I do not ...
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Does anyone knows how to convert ovf file to img using centos?
I'm trying to instal nuxeo on centos and I'm using now xen to virtualize.
Nuxeo's downloads have not xen image. Only available ovf and vmware.
Is possible to make the conversion?
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Vmware / vmdk / virtual machine hosting providers? [closed]
I'm new to cloud/virtual hosting and having a difficult time finding much useful information on google about this question.
Are there any reputable hosting providers out there, aside from hosting.com,...
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Migration from Hyper-V to ESXi
I am in the process of migrating my machines from Hyper-V to ESXi and I was just wondering what is the best way to do so?
I tried just copying the hyper-v disk file, creating a new vmware workstation ...
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What's the simplest way to run a virtual image that was created in VMWare 4.0?
I have been given an image that I'm told was created in VMWare 4.0 that I am trying to run. When I open it in virtual box I'm told that it cant run the image as it's not a supported version.
I tried ...
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VMWare - Increase disk space automatically - how?
There are many servers/hosts supporting many virtual machines on VMWare. Is there a way to automatically increase the disk space available on a VM say increase by 10%? How about sending messages (...
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Convert a .vmx file for use on EC2
I've got a virtual machine that I'd like to have running as an EC2 instance. Is there any way to simply convert a .vmx to an EC2 image?
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Is it possible to export an OpenVZ machine and use it after in another virtualization tool?
I'm planning to use OpenVZ in an old machine I have at home.
I want to know if a dumped OpenVZ instance image can be exported to other formats (like VirtualBox or Vmware).
Thanks!
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mounting VMDK images on opensolaris
I know that VMware ships a vmware-mount utility with its server 2 packages on Linux that allow you to mount a VMDK outside a vm and treat it as a normal filesystem mounted on the given mountpoint. Is ...
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Issues with creating a snapshot
We have a strange issue when attempting to create a snapshot in one of our regional environments. We have 4 VMs, 2 of them have mulitple VMDKs spread onto different datastores. When a snapshot is ...
Andy Welcomer
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Error adding 4tb LUN (Raw Device Mapping) to ESX4 VM
I'm trying to map an existing 4tb LUN from a Fibre Channel SAN, through to a VM in my ESX4 environment. It keeps telling me that the VMDK file size exceeds the the maximum size supported by the ...
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VMWare-Mount not recognizing virtual disks
I have two disks as .vmdk files, and four as .vdi files. I can boot virtual machines on them with Sun xMV VirtualBox, and they work just fine. However, I want to mount them on my local computer so I ...
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I would like to know the best method for compressing and storing virtual machines
I have Zipped a virtual machine and it seems like there should be a better way to store my base copy. Looking for the best way to manage my VMware base images.
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Delta files not deleted
I found out that my VM is running with a snapshot which is not visible in the snapshot manager.
I found out also that the machine is running on a delta file (probably an old snaphot)
I see there are ...
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Physical Win98 hd to VM .vmdk
I am pretty new to VMware fusion.
Case is: I have an old Win 98 machine, on which I have a program i need to run, to which I do not have the installation CDs. For that reason I need to make a .vmdk ...
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PowerCLI Syntax: copy-harddisk
Whats the correct syntax for coping a vmdk with PowerCLI? I'd like to do the same as vmkfstools -i
Get-HardDisk Machine1 | Copy-HardDisk "[DS] Machine2/test.vmdk"
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Copy-HardDisk : 21.01....
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VMware 1.0.1 Windows7 - Ubuntu hostnames
I'm trying to run Ubuntu as the guest OS using VMWware 1.0.10 with Windows 7 Ultimate as the host OS.
I had this set up previously with Win XP as the host OS and in fact I'm using the same .vmx
My ...
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Windows 2008 VM won't boot with 1TB vmdk attached
We have a Windows 2008 VM that runs on an ESXi 3.5 server. It has two VMDKs attached to it: the boot drive and a 1TB data drive. The boot drive VMDK resides on some DAS drives on the server. The data ...
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How to shrink a VMware virtual disk (vmdk)
I tried to shrink the size of a VMware virtual disk by doing what I do with AIM/EC2/Xen images: use sdelete -c to clear the empty space on a drive. However, for VMware, this actually expands the size ...
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copying an lvm partition to a smaller disk, and renaming volume groups
I was trying to shrink a vmdk (VMWare disk image) file to be as small as possible, and found two recommendations. The first is to cat /dev/zero into the fs then delete it, and run VMWare tools' shrink....
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copy vmware vmdk files while vm is running
I need to copy some VMs from one datastore to another. I'm running ESX 3.5 U3, VMs are mostly Windows-based. I don't care about data integrity since it's only to test NetApps deduplication on the ...
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convert vmware snapshot to vdi
I found plenty of documentation on how to convert a .vmdk file to a .vdi (VirtualBox) file. But they all assume you don't use snapshots. -- Is there a way to convert the vmdk snapshots too?
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Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive?
Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive? I know VMWare 6.5 can use physical harddisk drive directly to get good performance, can I convert an existing vmdk file to ...
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How do I convert a VMWare VMDK HDD file to a HyperV VHD file?
What's the best way to convert a VMWare VMDK HDD file to a HyperV VHD file?
I've been tasked with converting our environment to HyperV for evaluation purposes. We are MSDN subscribers, so the MS ...
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What's the downside of starting with extra large Virtual Disk?
Since it's kind of a time consuming option to increase the size of a Virtual Disk, what's the downside of selecting a huge disk to start with? (Why not start at the largest size and never worry about ...
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How do I resize a VMware hard disk file?
I have a VMware virtual machine that I made quite large. I am not really using most of it, so I would like to reduce it by 50% or so.
Is there a tool to do this?
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How do you copy a physical hard drive to a Vmware virtual hard disk?
Is there any way to copy a physical hard drive to a virtual drive for use in Vmware Workstation?
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