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The Best Damn Server Virtualization Book Period
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The Best Damn Server Virtualization Book Period

by Rogier Dittner, David Rule
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
960 pages
20h 47m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 22. Modifying VMs

Introduction

This chapter expands on the virtual machine’s creation that was introduced in Chapter 21. To begin, we will discuss the two main components of a virtual machine, the .vmx and the .vmdk files. Then we will look at the hardware and version level of these files, as well as how we can change the files to be able to migrate a virtual machine’s disk file from one VMware platform to another.

Virtual machines are made up of two files. The ...

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ISBN: 9781597492171