Hello cliffton sorry this is a bit off this topic but does concern v mi am using a mac book pro 13in with 500gb hd and 4 gb memory but i cant get vm to load using a external hd would that help in vm loading thanks in advance From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kliphton Sent: 29 July 2013 06:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: moving VM to another computer I have never done it that way. What I do is copy my VMWare folder to a USB, then copy it to my new machine, and then hit command O to find and load it. The last time I did it, I just keep it on my external USB drive, and run my vertial machine from there. Works flawlessly! JMO Kliphton Senior (iMessage ) <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [email protected] (Twitter,instagram,foursquare&Skype) kliphton72 [Text only] 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) <http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com/> http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com
On Jul 28, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: 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 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. -- 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. -- 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.
