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WibbleWobble
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RC1- Split disk into 2GB files problem

Hi,

I just tried installing Vista and XP with the Fusion wizard. I selected the option to "Split disk into 2GB files". However I noticed that I ended up with just one file for each installation. The Vista file was around 5.5Gb. I thought this wasn't supposed to happen.

I have anoher instance created with the VMware converter and this has lots of files named my_laptop-s001.vmdk, ranging from s001 - s009, some of the files are 2Gb some are as small as 10Mb. Which I take as correct

Is this a known problem?

Regards

Ed

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I just tried installing Vista and XP with the Fusion

wizard. I selected the option to "Split disk into 2GB

files". However I noticed that I ended up with just

one file for each installation. The Vista file was

around 5.5Gb. I thought this wasn't supposed to

happen.

Which file is this? On OS X, we use a "bundle" (fancy name for a folder with a particular extension, in this case vmwarevm) that OS X treats as a single file. If you ctrl-click on it and select Show Package Contents, you can see what's really going on. If you do this, do you see the split disk?

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WibbleWobble
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Yep you are actually right. If I show package contents then I can see all the files.

Ed

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