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How to make Xamarin Studio in OS X stop draining my storage space while running on virtual machine?

I have setup Vmware workstation on my Windows PC to run MAC OS in it. I am using Mac on a windows machine for xamarin.ios development. Mac OS is of 7.4 GB , XCode is 12 GB and Xamarin studio is of 1 GB in size in Mac os. I use Xamarin mac agent from…
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How to create vbox file for virtualbox?

Situation: I had centos before and everythung was working. Now when i got debian on my system, virtualbox dont let me add the existing vmdk and show me errors about mismatched UUIDs of vmdk to its snapshots. The errors are shown when virtualbox try…
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Virtualize a HDD (dd image) into a Smaller VMware Image

I salvaged the HDD from my old desktop, and would like to virtualize it to run under VMware Workstation. The problem is, the HDD (with several partitions) is 1 TB in size, and when I tried to clone it to an image (using dd), the resulting image is…
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VBoxManage Error (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED) while converting to RAW

I'm trying to convert VMDK obtained from AWS to RAW but VBoxManage fails and throws back to "VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED" error! Is there any solution? Environment: CentOS 6.5 VBoxManage 4.3.8r92456 [root@dhcp-xxx-xx-xx-xx Disks]# **VBoxManage clonehd…
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How do I recover lost data from a Virtualbox VM that crashed?

My VM from Virtualbox crashed when I attempted a snapshot. Unfortunately I lost some pretty important data as the VMDK was corrupted. The VM then reverted to a prior snapshot on reboot. I luckily saved the VMDK files prior to restarting the VM and…
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Create VM from VMDK in VMware using Ansible

I could create VM in VMware from existing VMDK from Vsphere client. But I am not able to create it using Ansible. Can anyone suggest how to create VM from existing VMDK with Ansible?
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How to move part vmdk files into a larger disk partition?

Using VMWare Workstation 10. The vmdk files is exhaustting my "D:\" space, so i want to move part vmdk files into a larger disk partition(e.g. "C:\"). I tried to move some vmdk files into "C:\Ubuntu-1-vmd-extended" and modified the main .vmdk file…
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Shrink CentOS VMDK on VMWare ESXi

I am trying to deploy an OVA based application which uses CentOS as base image. The recommended size of the application is 128 GB however, for some bizarre reason the expanded vmdk size is 502 GB. I don't have much space in my ESXi host and…
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Create vmdk from within VBox

I have Oracle vm Virtual Box (ver 5.0.0 )virtual machine setup on Windows 7 Enterprise machine, running, and doing what I expected it to do. It is necessary to do the same setup on a few other workplaces. The setup process was tedious and I'd like…
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