You can create a VM on a mac, move it to a Linux box and run it under VMware Player without the guest even knowing. One of the big advantages of a VMware VM is that it's portable. If you plan on moving it back to the main hard drive, answer 'moved' otherwise answer 'copied'.Ģ. When you do, it'll ask you if you moved or copied it. Yes, a VM, from the host filesystem point of view, is just a bunch of files, you can open it from the external drive.

There are no dumb questions, only dumb answersġ. How do ever get this thing to boot again? (yes, it's a crisis) Then what? Can I boot the VM off that drive somehow, and use that disk space to create the new snapshot? Or do I have to find some new machine with Mac OSX and a bigger hard drive and launch the VM there? Will it just, like, work if I copy the VM from one machine to another like that? If no, let's say I copy the entire VM directory off to a portable hard drive. can I somehow put the new snapshot on there to provoke the consolidation? Can VMWare see disk space on two different physical drives and treat it as one VM? If so how do I do that?Ģ. Can I add space for a new snapshot on a separate physical drive? I see no instruction on how to do that. I am unable to free up disk space using VMWare Disk Cleanup because 'These settings cannot be changed while the virtual machine has a snapshot.' No snapshots are displayed and I can't create a new one to achieve a consolidation because there is no disk space on which to put it.So I have 2 questions:ġ. I have gotten VMWare to start briefly but can't accomplish much before temp files chew up the space and I get the same error. I have tried all night to free up a little space here and there by deleting unused files and apps. I came across a knowledge base article to the effect that unless deleted, snapshots will just keep growing in size until they consume all available disk space. I only have about 40GB of actual files, the rest is an accumulation of half a dozen interdependent snapshots that came from who knows where (screenshot attached). My hard drive is about 111GB, of which almost 100 is the virtual machine. I can't find much of anything to delete because all available disk space is taken up by OSX and the. I get the error 'VMware Fusion has paused this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full.' I can't boot the VM because there isn't enough disk space.

Mac disk space full