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Re: Multiple file VM

rickbkis — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:03:45 GMT

Ok, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,

rickb

Re: Multiple file VM

dp_fusion — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:29:59 GMT

etung wrote:

rickbkis asked a slightly different question than the OP (although the OP was slightly ambiguous, and Woody's answer could also apply to it). However, I think you're confusing Woody's vmware-vdiskmanager answer with webfrasse's renaming answer. vmware-vdiskmanager suggestion will actually recombine the split disks into one file (although Woody left out the step where you have to point the virtual machine at the converted disk). Since rickbkis was asking about file descriptors, I think Woody's suggestion is correct for that question.

Thanks for the clarification - it was a bit confusing and I managed to add to it. I knew the disk manager could aggregate the splits as I'd experimented with it. The tools for Fusion are pretty nice, generally, in fact. Tomorrow morning I'll have coffee first then type

Re: Multiple file VM

WoodyZ — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:17:12 GMT

Yes my reply was obviously focused on the virtual disk and not the .vmwarevm Bundle Package and with the ambiguity of the OP's question coupled with what rickbkis was asking it helped to blur the two different questions into one. I should have just posted my original reply in this thread to rickbkis question and not the OP's.

Yes I left out what to do with the new disk however I figured if they couldn't figure it out on their own they'd be asking after. Thanks thought for your response!

Re: Multiple file VM

etung — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:28:48 GMT

rickbkis wrote: Bumping this back up, because I have the same question - not really answered, here.

WoodyZ wrote: See my reply to then OP's post as it answers the question.

dp_fusion wrote: A package is not a single file - the virtual disk remains split. Nor does this even create a package. All this does is change the way Finder displays the contents of the folder, nothing more.

Re: Multiple file VM

dp_fusion — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:20:45 GMT

WoodyZ wrote:

rickbkis wrote: Bumping this back up, because I have the same question - not really answered, here.

See my reply to then OP's post as it answers the question.

A package is not a single file - the virtual disk remains split. Nor does this even create a package. All this does is change the way Finder displays the contents of the folder, nothing more.

Re: Multiple file VM

WoodyZ — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:26:11 GMT

rickbkis wrote: Bumping this back up, because I have the same question - not really answered, here.

See my reply to then OP's post as it answers the question.

Re: Multiple file VM

WoodyZ — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:23:51 GMT

bobby.fishbein@mac.com wrote:When I create a VM, I end up with a single file with a .vmwarevm file. However, when I do a P2V conversion, the result is multiple 2GB .vmdk files and a single *.vmx file. Is there any way to consolidate these files into a single one?

You can use "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager" to convert your split disk into a monolithic disk.

Also etung has written a nice wrapper application for this and can be downloaded from: vdiskmanager GUI 0.2007.06.18.zip (59.1 K)

vdiskmanager GUI http://communities.vmware.com/thread/88468

Re: Multiple file VM

rickbkis — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:57 GMT

Bumping this back up, because I have the same question - not really answered, here.

I've got a large VM that requires some 50 .vmdk files - that's 50 used file descriptors which, last I heard, were still a limited resource.

I'd like to consolidate them into a single file VM.

Is there a way to do this, short of re-import the Parallels image and specify it up front?

thanx,
rickb

Re: Multiple file VM

webfrasse — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:53:47 GMT

Put them (all files belonging to the VM) in a folder with the extension .vmwarevm. That will create a package (your single file).

/Mikael

Multiple file VM

bobby.fishbein@mac.com — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:23:33 GMT

When I create a VM, I end up with a single file with a .vmwarevm file. However, when I do a P2V conversion, the result is multiple 2GB .vmdk files and a single *.vmx file. Is there any way to consolidate these files into a single one?