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Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive?

Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive? I know VMWare 6.5 can use physical harddisk drive directly to get good performance, can I convert an existing vmdk file to physical harddisk drive go gain better…
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Extract files from VMDK

Is there a command-line tool to extract files from a VMDK file? WinImage seems to be able to do it, but it's GUI only.
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How do I resize a VMware hard disk file?

I have a VMware virtual machine that I made quite large. I am not really using most of it, so I would like to reduce it by 50% or so. Is there a tool to do this?
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How do I convert a VMWare VMDK HDD file to a HyperV VHD file?

What's the best way to convert a VMWare VMDK HDD file to a HyperV VHD file? I've been tasked with converting our environment to HyperV for evaluation purposes. We are MSDN subscribers, so the MS software for the job is probably available to me if…
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copy vmware vmdk files while vm is running

I need to copy some VMs from one datastore to another. I'm running ESX 3.5 U3, VMs are mostly Windows-based. I don't care about data integrity since it's only to test NetApps deduplication on the target destination and the VMs will never be running…
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Can I send clients a pre-configured Virtual Machine?

I am not very well acquainted with VM Ware and Virtualization but I am investigating the feasibility of creating a VM Instance using VMWare, Windows Server 2008 R2, and shipping that VM as a complete solution to a client. Is this possible? If I were…
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Loop back mount a VMDK flat image on a Linux Box

I am trying to loop mount a VMDK flat image generated by VMware fusion. The VMDK file has the -flat extension. I am trying to use kpartx kpartx -av /path/to /my/vmdk but I get llseek error device-mapper: resume ioctl on loop0p1 failed: invalid…
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Convert a .vmx file for use on EC2

I've got a virtual machine that I'd like to have running as an EC2 instance. Is there any way to simply convert a .vmx to an EC2 image?
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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."

I was running a virtual machine in VMware Fusion 11 when my computer crashed. When I tried to start it up again I saw an error message informing me that "The disk has one or more internal errors that cannot be fixed." Is there a way I can fix this?
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Shrinking a preallocated VMDK

I'm trying to shrink an 80GB preallocated CentOS VMDK that I've been given from a previous VMware environment, that I've been asked to get running on another host. The billing arrangement for this new running environment allows for the imported dick…
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Vmware / vmdk / virtual machine hosting providers?

I'm new to cloud/virtual hosting and having a difficult time finding much useful information on google about this question. Are there any reputable hosting providers out there, aside from hosting.com, who allow you to upload and manage your own…
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conversion of a VMDK image with qemu-img failed with "error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument"

I tried to convert a VMDK image found in a OVA file to the QCOW2 format with the qemu-img command but it failed with the error message qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument user@ubuntu:/tmp$ wget…
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Downloaded -flat.vmdk from snapshoted machine is different everytime

I have a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0, machine has one Thick provisioned disk stored in VM forder (residing on local datastore). I am planning to move the virtual machine to another ESXi host with minimal downtime - I was planning to…
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VMware VM with more than 2TB of disk space

I'm a VCP 4 so I'm aware of the configuration maximums for LUNs/RDMs/VMDKs in vSphere 4, but say I want to create a VM that has a logical drive bigger than 2TBs. The only ways I can think of doing this are: Creating the VM with multiple VMDKs each…
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Very strange problem with VMDK thin/thick disks

I have some ESXi (4.1) virtual machines which were initially created using thin-provisioned disks, but where then physically moved to different datastores (all of them iSCSI); since these are stand-alone hosts, there is no vCenter Server available…
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