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sarus86

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Hey guys and gals, so at work I have created a vm using VMware workstation... I now need to supply that vm to other users. A little background: my machine is windows 7 64 bit and the vm I created is win 7 32 bit. The users needing the vm are running running macs with VMware fusion. Question: am I able to just copy the directory of my vm to there machine and have it start up? Do I need to somehow compress the vm in order to transfer more sufficiently?

Thank you for all the assistance.
 
You should just be able to copy the virtual machine files and then it will work. You'll need to create a new VM and then rather than create a new disk, tell the VM to use the virtual hard drive you copied. I've done it before when I've needed to back up VMs for whatever reason.
 
thanks vistakid.... now do I need to somehow compress the vm in order to transfer more sufficiently? and as far as copying the files that is all the files correct not just one file i need all of them? I just want to double check.

thank you all
 
Sorry for the later response - you shouldn't need to compress the VM files, if anything compressing the files will likely be troublesome as if you don't compress or extract them correctly the VM won't work. You're going to need to copy all the files, just not just the virtual hard disk, as usually VMware saves the virtual hard disk in multiple files to make transferring easier.
 
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