After reading my article "Backing Up Live Virtual Server VMs," a couple of administrators asked me if it was possible to back up individual files or folders inside a running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ...

After making this post I realized that all the old files still remain after you rename a vm. These files might interfere with a new vm that has the original name and the same platform, so there should ...

I'm proud to announce Jack CHESS, written in Jack. It's you against the computer. Copy the .vm files to a folder, and open the folder in the VMEmulator. Set the VMEmulator speed to "Fast" and set ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

Registering a virtual machine with the hypervisor is a handy tool that can be used when moving VMs between hosts, changing storage locations or even manual creation of virtual machines. Hyper-V 3 in ...

First of all, we need to form an external storage unit featuring an ExFAT filesystem. We prefer an ExFAT filesystem as it allows Virtual Machine hard disk files to function normally on any Operating ...

How can problems with a Hyper-V VM cause disk errors in Windows (the host)? Event viewer shows all these: Errors during paging operations. Failed to flush data to the transaction log (Failure status: ...