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I was investigating how to share a VMDK vdisk file between several virtual machines and found a screenshot-tutorial for this here. I was wondering what the differences were between the disk types… You actually have four different types of VMDK files. You have to use the type “thick” to be able to share a VMDK [...]

Since I will buy a new server soon I’m looking into some virtualization techniques. At the university we are currently using Xen and UML. For a university research project which I’m doing together with Dick Visser, we’ve installed a VMware ESXi server. We are going to install 10 xp machines on it and let some [...]

When using VMWARE with a Linux guest machine installed on it, the clock drifts and either gains or loses time. This is due to the way in which linux keeps time and counts clock ticks on a virtual CPU. Resolution: Firstly ensure that VMWARE Tools is installed on your guest machine. If your clock is [...]

The way administrators have dealt with increasing the size of a virtual hard disk file in the past was to create a new larger virtual hard disk file and then use a third-party imaging tool such as Symantec Ghost to clone the original disk to the new disk file. If you’re looking for an alternate [...]