VMware Fusion

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VMware Fusion is a virtualization software package for Intel-based Apple computers. With it I run several CentOS virtual machines for work & play as well as Windows XP (blech) for old Windows-only games.

Creating A Disk

You'll utilize the vmware-vdiskmanager command :

cd "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion"
./vmware-vdiskmanager

This will give you fairly verbose help, though you only need a small handful of flags.

I created a 500GB IDE drive with the following command :

./vmware-vdiskmanager -c -a ide -s 500GB -t 0 /tmp/500GB.vmdk

Downloading A Disk

I have created a large set of VMware disk images that are ready for download at :

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