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What are the Vagrant limitations for VMware disks with snapshots?
The docs are a bit cryptic about this:
If snapshots exist for a VM, disk functionality will be limited.
What limitations does Vagrant impose exactly on a VMware VM that has snapshots?
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Make Snapshot of Main OS
Can I make snapshot(something like that) of my main os/host machine(Which in this case is parrot os) ? Because when I use my parrot within a month or so I end up with broken os(because of my tinkering)...
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Can I continue use my VMware Workstation virtual machine before a snapshot completed?
I'm using VMware Workstation on Windows. When I create a snapshot while my guest VM is running, it will take long time (probably more than 10 minutes) to complete the whole process. During this period,...
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Vmware cannot create snapshot
I use Veeam to backup our servers, it has been running smoothly for years. Veeam creates a snapshot of the VM and than backs up this snapshot. After completion the backup job deletes the snapshot. Due ...
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Suggestion on how to consolidate VMWare VM snapshots
I was given a copy of a VM with many snapshots. The size of the folder that contains the VM is about 200GB and there is about 371 snapshots in it.
ls | grep [.]vmdk | wc
372 372 14513
I ...
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VMWare warns about consolidation after cancelling snapshot creation
I'm using VMWare vSphere client on Windows 10 to connect to my company DC (OVH).
I wanted to create a snapshot of a VM (Debian) before updating the packages.
So I tried to create a snapshot of a ...
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How does VMware continue running while a snapshot is being saved?
If you choose to save a snapshot, the progress bar indicates it's still saving but you can continue using the VM. The same applies when resuming. What is it actually doing during that time? If it were ...
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retrieve vmware snapshot from copied virtual disk
I created ubuntu vmware virtual machine in windows 7. I created its virtual hard disk (vmdk) on an external hard disk. I took some snapshots in due time. I've burnt my laptop recently and I'm happy ...
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VMWare Snapshot Cleanup
Running a Win7 VMware VM (Not ESXi) on WinXP. Now the C: driver is full and want to increase the size. I used the VMWare CLI vmware-vdiskmanager to increase the size. But it throwing an error message ...
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Taking Snapshot of running VM in VMWare
I am not able to see the "Take a snapshot of this virtual machine" enabled while the VM is running and active. It is found enabled only if the VM is powered off and not even when it is paused. I am ...
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