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 running vmdk…
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 steps of…
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 had mounted correctly. To…
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 have this…
VMWare now has a nice utility called Vmware importer (beta 2) 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 converting some windows images from parallels to vmware I…