I have been fighting with VMware Workstation 7.1.4 for the past day trying to change the MAC address of a Windows guest virtual machine. I tried a number of recommendations from around the web, but the one that finally worked was setting a static MAC address as follows: Edit your “<vmname>.vmx” file with a text …
Category: VMware
Sep 30 2010
Consolidating Multiple VMware VMDK Disk Files into One
If you have older VMware Workstation disk images (vmdk files) that are split into multiple parts, you can consolidate them into a single disk image from the command prompt: vmware-vdiskmanager -r MyVirtualMachineDisk.vmdk -t 0 SingleDiskFile.vmdk The “-t 0” means “single growable virtual disk”. If you prefer to preallocate all the storage for the disk, use …