Yesterday one of my VMs crashed when I tried to suspend it and it lead to quite unpleasant situation: all options for VMs (Start/Stop, Snapshot) become unavailable. So that context menu for VM looks something like this: I erroneously focused my troubleshooting and googling efforts around one VM issue, and not immediately realized that options … VMware Workstation 12: All options are grayed out for VMs
As I moved most of my VMs to NAS, I should admit that whereas it is best solution in terms of providing adequate space for bulky VMs and snapshots and access convenience, you pay for it with decreased performance (at least if you compare it with running VMs off internal SATA 3 SSDs). Latter can … Running VMware Workstation VMs from NAS
Imagine that you are trying to copy file or folder from your host machine into VMware Workstation VM and receive following error: Any idea what VMware Workstation trying to tell you? 🙂 Well being acquainted with this software and its occasional quirks my “knee jerk” reaction was to restart VMware Tools service and run … VMware Workstation: Cannot scan local directory error
Today after recurrence of losing all my favorites Microsoft IE (I suppose it has something to do with OneDrive/Synchronization options, though could be updates related) I went on updates spree instead of properly and systematically researching the problem (kind of most tempting way when dealing with technical issues). After installing bunch of Windows Updates along with … VMware Workstation “Not enough physical memory is available” Error (when you have plenty of memory)
Due to nature of my work I’m using loads of virtual machines, using mainly VMWare Worksation these days (though I hope to get back to Hyper-V once I start working on my Microsoft certification refresh). In most cases IT Pros use resource demanding VM just because it is often necessary to have whole enterprise technology … How to deal with: “File not found: -SnapshotXXX.vmsn” This file is required to power on this virtual machine error
