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  Could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open. I joined the collection of support...

  Thank you very much!

  B

  it2webber wrote: could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open.

  How the Virtual Machine has been backed up and restored?  If Time Machine then...

  It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring VMS in all circumstances/conditions.  Also back up Virtual Machines via Time Machine of disk/time intensive and wastes a lot of space for something that may be corrupted and worthless time to restore it.  At least I would exclude the Virtual Machines with virtual machines and Time Machine shutdown, not suspended and VMware Fusion closed and then manually copy the VMS to another location, preferably on a different physical hard drive.  So keep the user data stored in the virtual machine saved out of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis in order to always have a backup of the current user data.  If you need to restore a properly saved by VM is not as common at least you will have a virtual working Machine and data user to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine backup of the virtual machine fails.  Also take a look at: best practices for backup of virtual machine (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628)

  That said, if you don't have a copy of the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk" and then to try to retrieve the data from the user, you can try the following:

  Download then unzip it (double-click on) the joint "Windows_7 - f004.vmdk.zip" file that contains the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk ' an empty logical binary measure that has been created on the metric of the existing drive and add to the Package of the Virtual Machine.  This should allow the VHD to be considered as a virtual hard drive, assuming that there is no damage to the extent of the binary left headers.  Take a look on: work with Virtual Machine packages

  At this point, that the VHD has the scope necessary to show as a full disk, assuming that it is not corrupt the header in other binary extensions and can now attempt to access for the recovery of user data.

  There are several ways to try to retrieve user data.  The easy, although not necessarily work properly according to what now lack us due to replace the missing binary extensions with a logical empty measure, is trying to start the VM normally.  If the virtual machine starts up on the desk and VMware Tools load properly you should be able to copy your data to user off on a USB or slip and fall on the side of Mac or if you have a configured VMware folder then copy the files through it.

  Other methods involve starting the Virtual Machine with a Live OS ISO Image and copy files from a USB key or temporarily assemble the VHD to another Virtual Machine work.

  With the right tools installed the virtual hard disk could also be mounted as another accessible Volume through Finder.

• Discovers virtual machines on windows Server 2008 core

  If I load/install virtual machines, windows 7 or windows server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core and SCVMM to manage virtual machines, can I open and discovers virtual machines on the Server Core machine.

  Post in the Windows Server Forums:
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  Is there a directive to rigtsize the pagefile for guest virtual machines (Windows)?

  With the hosted versions of VMware (Workstation and Server), I used to create a swap file whose size was RAM * 2 and place it on a different disk from the system disk / boot: can it be good for VMware ESXi as weel?

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  that will depend entirely on the Organization of the underlying hardware and the OS and app loading on these drives.  Having said that, generally, is not a big deal provided that machines have anyway enough RAM.

• Deleting the same files of many virtual machines remotely

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  I tried to delete the same file several virtual machines remotely using the following script PowerCLI:

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  I am also able to run other scripts that use the Get-wmiobject across all virtual machines such as scripts to change the DNS or Netbios name across many machines on different hosts.

  Any comments would be greatly appreciated and please feel free to comment if you know maybe other ways which can delete files on multiple virtual machines in any other way.  Installation PowerCLI to run the script locally on each host would be a laborious process to do.

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  To solve the problem with the quotes, you can use double quotes inside the string. Like this:

  «del "«c:\documents and settings\text.exe»»»

  Or you can use for the string single quotes and double quotes inside:

  "del"c:\documents and settings\text.exe"

• Is it possible under the EULA to have several virtual machines on a single physical hard disk while using the same OS license or do I need a separate license for each virtual computer?

  I have several programs that are not compatible with my 64 bit Windows 7 operating system.  I would like to run each different software under another virtual machine of VMWare (5 packs of different software programs and 5 different virtual machines of Windows XP).  These would all be installed on your laptop.  I can use the same license of Windows XP for each virtual machine, or do I need a separate XP license for each (different XP in case 5 licenses)?

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  1. GRANT OF LICENSE.

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  1.1 installation and use.  You may install, use, access,

  display and run one copy of the SOFTWARE on

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  COMPUTER, unless a greater number is

  indicated on the certificate of authenticity.
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• Not possible to export a list of virtual machines that are created in the past 7, 30, 120 and 180 days since an imported csv file containing the date of creation of virtual machine

  Not possible to export a list of virtual machines that are created in the past 7, 30, 120 and 180 days since an imported csv file containing the date of creation of virtual machine. My questions is the correct statement to the variable: $VmCreated7DaysAgo: $_CreatedOn "-lt" $CDate7.

  # #SCRIPT_START

  $file = "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\08-18-2014\VM-Repo.csv".

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  An example of this cmdley

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• Set the priority of restarting a virtual machine

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• How to connect the physical monitor in a virtual machine?

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• URGENT! After installing 6 Fusion and creation of new virtual machine with Windows 7, I get a message "VMware Fusion cannot enter the unit". WHAT SHOULD DO?

  After purchase, installation and activation Fusion 6 with the license key, I had a library of VMS showing 2 Boot Camp partitions. It's strange that I only have 1.
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• What is the advantage to affect multiple virtual machines in a data store?

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  By allowing multiple virtual machines in a data store, you can run more than 256 virtual machines in a DRS cluster.

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  In a DRS cluster as each host must be mapped to the same data warehouses to ensure that virtual machines can be moved on the cluster and run on any of the hosts.

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  Hello just a small matter of team.

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  GoldTipu

  Hello

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• Lion running as a virtual machine under Windows (in front of the normal).

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