VMWare

How to Resolve VMware Error "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system"

by Ed Chen
November 26, 2016January 21, 2021

I got this error when I reboot a newly installed Enterprise Linux 6.7 guest OS on VMware Workstation 12. I tried several ways to workaround… Read More »

How to Expand VMware Virtual Disk Space

by Ed Chen
November 23, 2015December 11, 2022

In this post, I will introduce the expanding steps for both Windows and Linux guest VMs. The first 4 steps A. B. C. D. are… Read More »

How to Shrink VMWare Disk Files

by Ed Chen
June 24, 2015July 27, 2021

Here is my case, I usually put all the guest OS in an external SSD to speed up the development and testing. With limited disk… Read More »

How to Resolve "Unable to open file" and "The system cannot find the file specified"

by Ed Chen
May 8, 2014March 29, 2018

Received an error when doing defragmentation on a VM in VMware Workstation.Unable to open file "C:......Windows XP-cl2-000018.vmdk":The system cannot find the file specified.In fact, the… Read More »

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