{"id":392,"date":"2011-05-16T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-05-16T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:32:36","slug":"vdi-on-demand-exp-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"VDI on demand – exp.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first test was pretty successful! I had exported from my virtualcenter my old Portege 7200 to an ovf file on my current laptop with VMware workstation. This I managed to import and run. Cool! The only fly in the ointment being the bug in ovftool which gives an error when parsing the ovf file. I got round this by upgrading to the latest version of ovftool and running it manually to convert the ovf to a vmx file and then importing that.<\/p>\n

The next challenge is, of course to move the VM I used today back to my VC, to make it truly portable. Changing formats multiple times is not practical so I need to see what I can do with a USB stick, which harps back to my datastore on a USB stick search of last year (still not supported by VMware). Should still be able to use one to store the VM files though.<\/p>\n

Next experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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