Reduce compression size of vmware linux virtual machine on ext2,ext3 file system

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by linux

As I need from time to time compress my vmware virtual machine I needed to find out the way to compress it to a minimum size possible. Even, I removed all unnecessary files from my file system the actual compressed file of my vmware virtual machine did not reduce on size. The reason for this [...]

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Command to Create virtual disk for vmware with vmware-vdiskmanager

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by linux

Here is a simple way to create virtual disk for vmware:
vmware-vdiskmanager -c -t 0 -s 1GB -a ide vmware_virtual_disk.vmdk
this creates 1GB IDE disk.
to create SCSI virtual disk with vmware-vdiskmanager use command:
vmware-vdiskmanager -c -t 0 -s 1GB -a buslogic vmware_virtual_disk.vmdk

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