I have never done it that way. What I do is copy my VMWare folder to a USB, then copy it to my new machine, and then hit command O to find and load it. The last time I did it, I just keep it on my external USB drive, and run my vertial machine from there. Works flawlessly! JMO Kliphton Senior (iMessage )kliph...@icloud.com-Email kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter,instagram,foursquare&Skype) kliphton72 [Text only] 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com
On Jul 28, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I took my own oft-given advice and researched the question on > VMWare's Knowledge base. It looks fairly straight-forward. First put a > copy of the VM bundle (.vmwarevm file) on an external drive, or on the > desktop of the MBA, then in Fusion, select file/new/continue without > disk/ use existing Virtual disk. > Then navigate inside the .vmwarevm file, anselect the .vmdk file as > the virtual disk to use. There are lots of subfiles with the .vmdk > extension, but you want the master .vmdk.d > For example, there will be "virtual a bunch of > "virtual disk 00x.vmdk subfiles. you want the one without the 00x's. > Once the .vmdk is selected as the virtual disk to use, continue and > fusion will create a virtual machine from that virtual disk. > > As the KB articles say, the process is identical to taking a disk > drive out of one physical machine and putting it in another as the > boot drive. > > > On 7/27/13, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> After installing Fusion on my new MBA, how do I move the windows7 VM >> from my iMac to the MBA? Do I go through Fusion's "import" menu, or is >> it a simple matter of copying the VM file from the iMac into the >> VMWare directory on the MBA? The latter doesn't sound right to me, but >> I thought the import menu was for VM's created in other programs like >> parallels etc. >> >> If it's a matter of transferring the VM file, I imagine it would be >> necessary to turn off any machine dependent hardware connections in >> the VM like camera, bluetooth etc first? >> >> thanks >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
