I use the excellent VirtualBox on Ubuntu but I had a specific Debian dev environment VM that I'd previously run under VMware Fusion on my work mac when it used to have OSX on it ;-). The current versions of VirtualBox (2.2.4 in my case) support…
Quick tip if you ever want to convert from a fixed disk image to an expandable one then the following command should do it: sudo vmware-vdiskmanager -r source.vmdk -t 0 expandable.vmdk Just replace "source" and "expandable" with your disk image file names. For more…
I've been having some really nasty time drift on VMware servers guests of late. This is a big pain because so much relies on accurate date and time. The problem I was seeing was that the time on the guest was running very fast so I took the…
First you need the vmware tools tar from the cd image. This is found at /media/cdrom once you've run "install vmware tools" from the server console. When I did this the CD didn't seem to be available even though it looked like it…
After cloning a vmware image to copy to my local machine I had an issue with eth0 not coming up on an Ubuntu VM. After a bit of googling I found a solution that required editing /etc/ftab to remove an incorrect generated mac address. Hardy Heron doesn't…
VMWare now has a nice utility called Vmware importer (beta 2) [http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/importer_tool.html] which takes Parallels image files (and Virtual PC image) and converts them to VMWare Fusion image files directly. The app is dead easy to use and from my own test…