This article describes a couple of quick steps to speed up VMware Workstation. These steps will speed up and offer better performance, during normal operation but also during backups with your VMware backup software. First you would want to merge split VMDKs that VMware Workstation creates by default. This default setting is unfortunately not very […]
Below is a feature comparison of modern hypervisor platforms, such as Hyper-V, VMware, VirtualBox and others: Name Can boot an OS on another disk partition as guest USB support GUI Live memory allocation Snapshots per VM Snapshot of running system Live migration Shared folders Shared clipboard PCI pass-through KVM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes […]
In order to convert your VHD or VHDX file from a dynamically growing format to a fixed size format, you can use the PowerShell and run the Convert-VHD command. When the VM is offline, you can specify the VHDType parameter and switch to a differencing disk, you can switch between Fixed, Dynamic, and Differencing as needed. […]