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A New Way To Dealing With A Lot of VMs On Your Laptop

Thursday, 11 December 2008 by Michel Roth

Techies got a mixed blessing a couple of years ago. With the tools like Vmware Workstation it was suddenly possible to carry entire server farms with you on your laptop! However, since then the challenge of the available resources on your laptop has stuck it's ugly head up. If you are using Vmware Workstation 6.5 there is hope... Vmware Workstation 6.5 offers a lot of new options. One of these is using the commandline tool VMrun to pause a virtual machine. Note that this is a different approach from suspending a virtual machine. This can bail you out if your system (laptop- you know the one with the sllloooowwwwww disk) is deadlocking your live demo. If you do not want to use the commandline, you can also use a Powershell script bij Nicolas Dille that allows you do it in a GUI.