Re: WDSC in VM

[Brian <system.i.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

Occasionally, we have moved VMs between physical servers so this should also
work with moving from one physical drive to another. The steps are something
like...

1) Stop the VM
2) Copy the VM image file to the new location
3) Change the properties of the VM to reflect the new path.
4) Start the VM and if asked to change the SID answer NO.
5) Delete the original VM.

Using a variation of this procedure, you could create a "template" VM of
WDSC and anytime you needed a new instance, just copy the image file to a
new name, update the path and assign a new SID when requested.

I'm hoping the improvements in V7 will allow WDSC to run satisfactorily from
a network drive or an external USB drive.

Kind regards,

BJ



On 3/21/07, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: albartell
> >
> > I just set one up to be 30GB in size for my XP Pro VMWare instance.  8GB
> > was
> > the default when I initially created it and was unable to change it
> after
> > the fact so I simply deleted that instance and re-created at 30GB.
>
> I'm still trying to get a good feel for whether I can copy off both the
> virtual disk drive and the associated server information onto a network
> device and then delete the local copy, thus freeing up the space on the
> local drive.
>
> The idea is to create a repository of working servers on the network drive
> and copy them onto the local drive as needed.  I'm sure I could use the
> network drive as my repository, but that's a lot of extra overhead that
> I'd
> like to avoid.  Instead, I'd like to simply copy in whichever
> configurations
> I need when I need them.
>
> Besides, running off the 15K local drives has to perform better than
> running
> off network disk, no matter how fast your network.
>
> Joe
>
>
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