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Fixing Networking Problems with a Cloned Linux VM

Fixing Networking Problems with a Cloned Linux VM Often when cloning virtual Linux boxes (or using VMWare converter to deploy a virtual appliance) I find that the networking simply doesn't work. eth0 will exist but will not find a network even after checking and double checking /etc/networki

Resize VMware virtual disk

Resize VMWare virtual disk Here's a handy tip to resize your VMware virtual disk once it's run out of disk space. Open up the run dialogue from the start menu (Start -> Run) or hold down the Windows key and press R. Type cmd and hit enter to open up the Command Prompt. Assumin

Increase your Virtual machine's disk size

Increase your Virtual machine's disk capacity Background The geekzilla team have been using VMWare for over a year now for desktop virtualisation . There are loads of benefits of virtualisation , but the most obvious one for me is increased stability. For years I had a single

How to convert a physical computer to Virtual Machine

How to convert a physical computer to Virtual Machine As per Mark's article http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/ViewContent.aspx?contentID=36 here is another solution that does not use Ghost but good ole NT back up. I had this stored on my machine but unfortunaltey I cannot remember where it ca

Unsupported resolutions

Unsupported resolutions To add a resolution such as 1440x900 to your VMWare machine, edit its .vmx file and add the following lines to it. svga.maxHeight = 900 svga.maxWidth = 1440 This helped solve a problem on our widescreen Dell laptops that we use for our development work.

How To Create A Virtual Machine from a Physical Disk

How To Create A Virtual Machine from a Physical Disk We recently had a problem in converting a physical machine to a virtual machine. We have tools which work on the VMWare server products (ala Platespin) but we could not convert the ESXServer image back to a VMWare Workstation image. Despit

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