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Convert OVF VM to VMWare Fusion with OVFTool

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Matt McKnight — Leave a comment

Sometimes it won’t work. VM hardware might not be recognized, etc. You can still convert it using the ovftool. Just specify the undocumented –lax option which turns errors into warnings.

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Simulating Slow Network on Virtual Machines

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Matt McKnight — 1 Comment

We needed to simulate that our data frameworks will work over a slow network link. There is a VMWare configuration option to limit a virtual NIC to a certain bandwidth. Just edit the VM’s .vmx file and enter the speed…

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