I'm using VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.1 with monolithic disk files (on a Win 10 host).
I worked with snapshots, but always deleted them again because they're not needed anymore.
Unfortunately, it does not delete the Snapshot files from my disk, when I try to delete them by hand it says This file is required to power on this virtual machine. If this file was moved, specify the new location.
In my virtual machine settings, I see that disk is about ~58GB in size, which corresponds pretty much exactly to my 000011.vmdk file in the image below. How can I get rid of all the other files?
Thanks!
I found a working solution: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57015 - option 2 (manual consolidation). This resulted in a ~75GB .vmdk file which works independently from the snapshot files.
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I am running macOS High Sierra and using iCloud Drive. My mac recently ran low on storage so it automatically offloaded a bunch of my documents. This should always be seen as a good thing, it is working as expected. However my Mac offloaded my 20GB Windows Virtual Machine, forcing me to re-download the entire file before I could use Parallels again.
Is there a way to stop iCloud from offloading certain files?
You will need to create a folder one level up to store your VMs. In Finder, click Macintosh HD, then Users, Then your profile (your login name). This is your home folder. Once there, Click on the gear and creat a new folder named Virtual Machines (or just VMs) and move your VMs there.
You can create many different folders here and whey will not sync. Only Desktop and Documents will sync. For example, I have a folder called TEMP that has my draft documents for projects only on my local machine.
Hope that helps!
My FreeNAS server is slowly dying and before that happens i need to migrate all data in the NAS to a windows server.
The FreeNAS has ZFS Snapshots and i need to restore data from a few days ago to the Windows server.
I have done some research and i can't think of the best way to do this. (i am not linux/Zfs savvy)
So the things i need to do is,
Restore ZFS Snaptshot from a few days ago to a windows Server
I mounted a windows share to the Freenas using mount_smbfs //username:password#server.name/share_name share_name/
I can copy and create files on that share just fine. So I was wondering if it was possible to restore an entire data set from an snapshot to the windows share.
Any help, tips is much appreciated.
Note. I could easily copy all data on a freenas volume to the windows share, but what makes it complicated for me, is restoring data from a snapshot without overwriting the current data on the volume and moving that data to the windows share.
You have two sensible possibilities:
Access the ZFS dataset (shared over SMB) from your Windows Server, then right-click on it in Explorer and choose "Previous Versions". You will get (after a short time depending on the number of snapshots) a list of all snapshots with their dates. You can then either explore them and copy some files over, or you can choose to copy all to another location (e. g. your new share).
Mount the Windows share on FreeNAS like you did, then go to <pool>/<filesystem>/.zfs/snapshot/ (path completion on the shell might be turned off for the .zfs directory, so type it in manually). There you'll find all your snapshots (like you would have on Windows' Previous Versions) and you can copy some or all files over to the new directory.
I would suggest the first way, because you have the GUI and cannot do any harm to the FreeNAS system this way.
On the other hand, have you thought about the possibility of rescuing the system? You did not specify why it's dying, but things like hard drives or mainboards can be swapped quite easily without requiring setting up everything anew. Maybe this would help you more than moving the data off to another, unconfigured system?
The capacity of my SSD is just 60Gb, and I have just over 5Gb of free space at the moment. Is there a way to install Xcode directly on the external drive? Or to do so I'd have first to make this drive bootable and boot my system from it?
There are various possible solutions, including, making use of symlinks, dual booting two versions of macOS (one on external SSD), and many more.
But the best way I found was to create a new macOS user and change its home directory to external SSD (by going to advanced user settings under Users & Groups System Preferences).
The exact steps I followed:
Create a new APFS partition on external SSD with 100GB storage. (say NewVol)
Create new macOS user and change its home directory to /Volume/NewVol/user
Logged into the new user with external SSD connected, and installed xcode in ~/Application. (i.e. the local Application folder, not /Application)
Why this works best is because you don't need to manually manage symlinks, also symlinks might create problems during builds. All the required files (including builds and temporary files) are stored in user directory, so no space occupied on internal drive. Also, no hassle of installing a complete separate OS, and going through cycles of reboots to switch the OS.
There are a couple of options you can consider.
Move some files to the external drive, instead of installing applications on it. This would be your best bet, since applications have dependancies. Also, if you run them from your SSD, they will get better performance.
If you absolutely need your files on your SSD, and you can't move them, then I would suggest moving any third party applications to see if you can free up space for Xcode, and run it from your SSD.
If the two options above don't work for you, then you will have to try and work with Xcode. There is no easy way to change the install location. Your option here would be to free up some space temporarily, by moving bigger files to an external drive. Then do the Xcode install in your applications folder. Once that's done, move Xcode to the external drive, and take your files back to your SSD. Here is another questions that talks about the same topic.
I'm creating a virtual windows 7 enterprise 64bit on my new Macbook Pro using VirtualBox.
Following the wizard, I selected the correct operating system, allocated 512 RAM, 50GB VDI storage (dynamically allocated), and on startup I injected my ISO installer file as the CD to boot from.
Then I started my new virtual machine.
But I can't get any further then the first screen "Where do you want to install Windows". It displays an empty list and I don't get options to partition anything or make a new disk.
The VDI file is however present in the appropriate VirtualBox VMs folder on my Mac. I tried giving every file and directory in that folder all rights, but that doesn't solve the problem.
Also, when I look to my VM settings, in the Storage tab there seems to be a Controller: SATA item present, containing the Windows 7 64bit.vdi
I completely erased VirtualBox (including all settings files) using an App remover tool, reinstalled it, but still I can't get any further, it keeps displaying an empty list.
What am I missing here?
So I found out how to share folders using Virtual Box and running Windows 8.
I was wondering, if I save files or projects from Windows 8 to the shared folder on my Mac, will TimeMachine backup those files onto my external harddrive? The hard drive is of course formatted for Mac because of that whole debockel, but that is besides the point. Even though the files were made in Windows.
Also...My assumption is that I would not be able to access the files on my external formatted hard drive from Virtual Box running Windows 8. Is this true?
To my knowledge, you cannot access the files on a journaled formatted hard drive from Windows without extra software. If I understand you correctly, you are trying to backup files created in the Windows VM within your Time Machine backup hard drive?
I'm sure you have solved this by now, but you should consider backing up the VM itself. If the files on the Windows Machine are important you can leave them in a shared folder and have time machine back up that folder.