Well, I took my own oft-given advice and researched the question on VMWare's Knowledge base. It looks fairly straight-forward. First put a copy of the VM bundle (.vmwarevm file) on an external drive, or on the desktop of the MBA, then in Fusion, select file/new/continue without disk/ use existing Virtual disk. Then navigate inside the .vmwarevm file, anselect the .vmdk file as the virtual disk to use. There are lots of subfiles with the .vmdk extension, but you want the master .vmdk.d For example, there will be "virtual Disk.vmdk", and a bunch of "virtual disk 00x.vmdk subfiles. you want the one without the 00x's. Once the .vmdk is selected as the virtual disk to use, continue and fusion will create a virtual machine from that virtual disk.
As the KB articles say, the process is identical to taking a disk drive out of one physical machine and putting it in another as the boot drive. On 7/27/13, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > After installing Fusion on my new MBA, how do I move the windows7 VM > from my iMac to the MBA? Do I go through Fusion's "import" menu, or is > it a simple matter of copying the VM file from the iMac into the > VMWare directory on the MBA? The latter doesn't sound right to me, but > I thought the import menu was for VM's created in other programs like > parallels etc. > > If it's a matter of transferring the VM file, I imagine it would be > necessary to turn off any machine dependent hardware connections in > the VM like camera, bluetooth etc first? > > thanks > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
