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• Partitions of hard drive on a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a few questions related to the hard drive on a virtual machine.

  1. is it possible to create multiple hard drive partitions (virtual hard disk, we can add, modify the virtual machine settings) that we have in our PC? In the case the ESX Server and Workstation?

  2. in WMware Workstation by clicking on change settings for virtual machine, I've added an extra IDE drive and allocated 1 GB of space, so now I have two hard drives. I said my virtual machine (Windows XP is the guest operating system), I expected to see the additional drive as "D:", but it was not! What stage is omitted by me?

  Thanks to AdvanceSalahuddin

  1. Yes.  Treat your virtual machine exactly as you would with a physical.

  2. yet once, as you would in a physical installation.  When you add a hard drive, you must go in disk management, select the new drive, create a partition on it and format the partition.

• Convert a hard drive to a virtual machine

  I have a server that the material died which has mirrored hard SATA hard drives in them.  I would like to convert the data on that hard drive to a virtual machine and put it in my vCenter, but I am unable to start the server.  What is the best way to do it?  I can mount and read data from Windows on another machine.  Right now I'm trying to back up data until an acronis image and then use converter to import.  I think it is easier to sense, though.   I also have a backup server Symantec Backup Exec, but I do not have the agent ESX for Symantec.

  Thank you

  Dave

  If you want to try the converter, just fix the disk on a physical host somewhere and run a normal conversion.

  Once you have done this, create a new empty virtual machine with no disc and you fix vmdk for the reader you want migrated to this new virtual machine. Chances are that you will get the normal NT Loader boot error when you try to start, but you should be able to solve this problem using a fo the following:

  DiskPart

  Fdisk

  Recovery Boot

  You can also consider to use something else than VMware converter - perhaps something like Acronis True image?

  Good luck and please feed back.

• VMWare Fusion for Mac - how much space HARD drive is my virtual machine taking?

  So, I am running VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Air, and I'm under low HARD disk space.  My Mac storage utility tells me that I have a ton of capacity used in the 'Other' bucket.  According to me, this bucket is where live VMWare Fusion.  As I understand it, technically, my complete operating system of Windows (including all files) is contained in a single file on the Mac side.  Is this correct?  Is it possible to see what capacity takes up my whole Windows Operating System (Virtual Machine)?  I hope this makes sense.  Thanks in advance for your comments!

  -Chill

  ChillOne wrote: as I understand it, technically, my complete operating system of Windows (including all files) is contained in a single file on the Mac side.  Is this correct?

  No, it's not correct!  A Virtual Machine is composed of many files and folders according to how it configured and used.  On a Mac if created natively by VMware Fusion using values by default so all the files that make up a virtual machine are in all of the Virtual Machine that is structurally nothing more then a regular folder except the extension .vmwarevm, it is treated differently by the launch in OS X Services.  Take a look on: work with Virtual Machine packages

  The files that make up the Virtual Machines from Windows/Linux systems and other places my being in simple ordinary folders.

  Is it possible to see what capacity takes up my whole Windows Operating System (Virtual Machine)?

  You can also see statistics for a given Virtual Machine by selecting Virtual Machine in the library because it displays size information, as well as on the General form of a virtual machine; s parameters.  Or look in the Finder and see the release of Get Info for the packaging of the Virtual Machine or the folder that contains the files that make up the Virtual Machine.

• My computer does not recognize the external hard drive that my virtual machine is stored (continuous thread solved problem)...

  A new problem arises.  After I crossed the wire attached and mounted my VM on the external hard drive, I can access is no longer my hard drive.  Y at - it a trick to recognize again?

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1166805#1166805

  Ben, well talk to you again and let me know what external drive you eventually buy and if it was the controller or the drive in the other external drive.

  Woody

• Cannot expand the hard drive of a virtual computer that is a linked clone.

  I have a virtual machine that is a linked another clone.

  I did a lot of development and changes to the linked clone, and now ran out of disk space.

  Now I want to extend the drive, but I get this error:

  "Disks of virtual machines that are linked clones cannot be extended.

  So I then try to extend the drive of the virtual machine that he was cloned from:

  "Disks of VMS with snapshots cannot be extended. You must delete the snapshots or use VMWare vcenter converter. »

  What can I do? If I remove the snapshots of the original machine, do not lose the 'link' to the linked clone? What he suggested that I use the "VMWare vcenter converter" for?

  Does anyone have a solution?

  Kind regards

  James

  Create a complete clone of the virtual machine in the current state. Which can be extended.

• Install the Flash drive on a Virtual Machine

  Host operating system: Linux Mint 17, Matt

  6 of VMware

  Windows XP Home SP2

  Opera 11.5

  It starts to install then says that there is a connection error when there is no. Telling me just try the same steps more still don't cut it. Either I need to know why the installer thinks there's a connection problem, or should I be able to install offline. In fact, it would be simpler and better. Oh yes, one more thing. I opt to download Google Chrome, just in case where it makes a difference.

  I need to run applications that use SWF files for video content in the program. Therefore, a browser plugin will not work for them.

  Hello

  Please try the installation program offline posted at the bottom of the Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows page in the section "problems".  Unlike Installer online who downloads and installs Flash Player silently in the background, this is the full installer and once downloaded does not connect to the internet to download anything extra.

  Please provide logs previously requested that will help to troubleshoot why the online installer does not work. I've seen several reports recently of the installer online have reported an error of connection in XP. I was not able to reproduce the error and get the logs will help us troubleshoot why what is happening.

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• expand the hard drive

  Dear all,

  I would like to extend the hard drive on my virtual machine. But unfortunately he is disabled, even when I stop the virtual machine.

  It is machine virtual version 7 and the hard disk, the thick type of provision.

  I need to extend the C: drive.

  Would be an option to add a second virtual hard drive on the virtual computer and extend the C drive?

  Thank you

  Edy

  The most common cause for this is that the virtual machine has Active snapshots. You must delete all snapshots in order to be able to resize/grow a virtual disk.

  André

• Help please... Replaced the hard drive of MBP, restored from TM, but the Windows XP virtual machine does not start

  I replaced the 250 GB hard drive in my MacBook Pro early 2009 with a 500 GB drive, it the Mac OS extended (journaled) format and restored from my Time Machine backup.

  Now when I try to start my Windows XP virtual machine (using Fusion 2.0.6... planning upgrade to 3.1.2 but wanted to validate all was well first), I get BSOD, even in safe mode.

  I have my vm separately saved on a network drive data files based on things that I had read before, I do not think that TM backup of virtual machines. However, a friend with a similar setup with more knowledge I think because I could see my Windows XP vm VMWare listed under 'Documents' in Time Machine showing its full size, it has actually saved and there restore it. Apparently he has done this successfully before.

  Should I have partitioned the hard drive? I don't think that my previous drive has been partitioned. Don't know what to do now.

  TIA!

  Katie

  To be clear: you have restored VMs from the disk or network time Machine?  And if the network drive, what backup method you use?  (i.e.: have you just copied engine off the computer virtual package or not?)  Can you copy/restore the virtual machine to the network again drive?  What is a virtual machine that has the error, or other virtual machines have problems?

  Time Machine backup correctly a virtual power off machine. But since Time Machine works automatically, you often will get not a consistent backup unless you do some tricks to make sure Time Machine backup only when you use a virtual machine.  (i.e.: turn on Time Machine only when you're done with the virtual machine.)  Thus, it is normally recommended to exclude the virtual machines from Time Machine and use another method to back up virtual machines.  Your friend is lucky or is only backup virtual machines powered off.

  Should I have partitioned the hard drive? I don't think that my previous drive has been partitioned. Don't know what to do now.

  The Mac player Paritioning is unnecessary unless you use Boot Camp or have required another for the partition.

• I deleted the boot camp trying to resize the hard drive on my mac pro book. now, the computer does not start without a bootable device, which I don't have, and any download must be on a windows machine. Can anyone help

  I deleted the boot camp trying to resize the hard drive on my mac pro book. now, the computer does not start without a bootable device, which I don't have, and any download must be on a windows machine. Can anyone help

  1. did you remove Bootcamp using disk utility?

  2 have you tried local restore or recovery of the Internet? - OS X: on OS X Recovery - Apple Support . Mac with built-in optical drives may need 'Gray' disks to boot the system.

• I have an attached external hard drive, I selected through Time Machine. But Time Machine also save the hard driver separately?

  I have an external hard drive attached I selected through a Time Machine, I found in the system preferences. Is - this time Machine even save the documents that I have on the hard drive? In other words, I want to be sure I have two back ups until I upgrade of the OS,

  Time Machine backs up all the readers who were not placed in the exclusion list.

• I have an XP machine (not); formatted the hard drive and installed Fedora instead. However, I would like to go back to XP now.

  I have an XP machine (not); formatted the hard drive and installed Fedora instead. However, I would like to go back to XP now. I have the product key, but really am struggling to install XP. Any ideas?

  original title: Reinstall XP on Fedora

  See if this can help, its for Windows 7 b ut can work for XP (worth a try).

  Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool:
  http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
  Also: http://www.elmajdal.net/Win7/Using_The_Windows_7_USB_DVD_Download_Tool.aspx

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• My MB died and after to put the HARD drive in the new XP machine crashes before the activation screen may appear.

  Original title: XP Pro crashes when MB died and move new HDD PC.

  My MB died and after to put the HARD drive in the new XP machine crashes before the activation screen may appear.

  I can access the HARD drive if I boot from another HARD drive (delivered with the Machine).  Windows just hangs.

  Thanks for any help...

  Hello

  If you try to boot from the hard disk on which windows was installed by using another computer and then, you will not be able to boot from it. You can try to perform a Windows XP repair install and check.

• How many installations allowed on 'machine' even if the hard drive is replaced?

  I recently had to reinstall my Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard on my laptop even when I replaced a bad hard drive. Now, I find I have to replace the hard drive once more (freezing, tech guys think its hit been around too much). I googled a bit and have read that I can install my (student limited, license)? Adobe software on two "machines". What is a machine? If this is the same computer, it is the machine even if I put a new hard drive in it? In other words, I'll be able to install a third time on the same computer if I did so twice on two different hard drives?

  What you need to do is contact the Adobe Support using chat and ask them to reset your activations.  This way, you have a fresh slate of two waiting for you to use.

  The limit of two machines is a continuous limit, not a time limit, meaning when you change machines you can move your license as needed.  Normally you would disable an installation (by selecting help-> Deactivate), but when a machine dies you lose the ability to disable.  Adobe support can take care of this by resetting activations.

  To the link below, click on the still need help? the option in the blue box below and choose the option to chat...

  Serial number and activation support (non - CC) chat
  http://helpx.Adobe.com/x-productkb/global/Service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

• I bought a new desktop computer... and you want to clean the hard drive of my 9 year old machine. How can I do?

  I have removed my bank details, etc., but feel that I need to wipe the hard drive completely.

  Hi JohnSykes952,

  Try the Dariks boot and nuke.

  http://www.DBAN.org/

  How to clear a drive with freeware.

  http://www.ehow.com/how_6167204_wipe-disk-freeware.html

  DBan FAQ

  http://www.DBAN.org/FAQ

  You will need software to burn the program on a disk for use of disc burning.

  Try IMGBurn.

  http://www.ImgBurn.com/index.php?Act=download

  Guide ImgBurn

  http://www.ImgBurn.com/index.php?Act=guides

  Good luck..