Articles tagged under VMWare

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

Paul Marshall - 248,742 views

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

Greg Duffield - 25,787 views

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.

Barrington Haynes - 5,767 views

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

Mark Page - 75,170 views