VMware Fusion Operations

Internal

• VMware Fusion

Procedures

• New VMware Fusion Virtual Machine
• Clone a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine
• Rename VM Bundle Files

VMware Virtual Machine Cloning

Clone a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine

Changing the Number of CPUs Allocated to a VM

Virtual Machine -> Settings -> System Settings row -> Processors & Memory -> Processors.

Rename a VM

External

• https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1015695

Procedure

After startup, Virtual Machine -> Settings -> General -> Click the existing name of the VM to edit the text -> Rename and click outside the text box to save.

Shutdown.

Note that renaming the VM does not change the name of any bundle file on disk.

Shrink a Sparse Disk

External

• https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001934

Procedure

TODO: "Clean Up Virtual Machine"

Snapshot Consolidation

https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1020000

Command-Line Virtual Machine Operations

Command-Line Virtual Machine Operations

Set Up Direct Access to Virtualization Host Storage

A pre-requisite for accessing shared host storage in the VM is to install VMWare Tools in the VM. This is the procedure to install VMWare Tools for Linux and this is the procedure to install VMware Tools for Windows.

Settings -> Sharing -> Enable Shared Folders -> + -> Select the local folder to share.

The folder will be available after reboot as "Shared Folders (\\wmware-host)".