virtualization on P150HM

I have recently made a VHD and VMDK of my work system, POS DELL they expect me to tote every where.

What I want to do is use this disk image on my P150 and not carry 2 pc's anymore.
In all honesty this worked very very well on my mac with Vmware fusion.

How do I get this beast to run my work image and be done with carrying 2 laptops everywhere I go.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Cheers

 

I believe VMware Workstation would be the equivalent to Fusion.

 

Thanks Fernandes,

I have been trying Workstation and I get to the Windows loading screen and it will just crash. Not sure if I am doing something wrong when creating my VMDX image.

Iwill try and contact VMware tech support and see if they can help me along the way.

 

Check your BIOS to see if Hardware Virtualization (or VT-d) is enabled.

 

If they were created on another machine, the issue might be related to hardware differences. VMware machines are portable, but only from similar hosts. (Especially when the CPU support changes). You may want to try booting your VM's in safe mode first, or possibly doing a fresh install. The change from VMware Fusion to VMware Workstation (plus any number of version of differences) coupled with the change in host hardware may have made it to the point that you can't use your old VM's. The machine itself shouldn't have any issue running them, as it's capable of running quite a few at once (I tend to have 5-6 running at once for testing).

 

Thanks for the input, my problems are just that I want to run engineering software that is installed on the company PC. It's a royal PIA to get a new license files generated. On my Mac I would just use Fusion to create a virtual machien and it would boot without issues. We are using Win 7 X64 now and I am unable to get any of my VMDX for windows to boot. Like you said it may just be some simple setting or, just too big a difference in PC's to boot.

Again thanks for all the advice.

 

I recommend switching to VirtualBox - I much prefer it over VMWare.
virtualbox.org

 

you could check out this kb article from vmware.
VMware KB: Using VMware Workstation virtual machines in Fusion


if the same VM is working on VMware fusion and you're running the same version of VM Workstation then it should work properly.

now if it hangs on VMWare workstation then power off the VM and check the allocated processors / ram on the guest OS (make sure you've allocated enough memory to the guest OS but not more than your host OS, same with the processor).

another option would be to use VMware vCenter Converter to convert your VM