Comments on: Time Machine and VMware Fusion http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/time-machine-and-vmware-fusion/ Welcome to Mark Wheadon's blog; I hope you find it useful. Feel free to comment on anything you read here. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kris Coppieters http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/time-machine-and-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-973 Kris Coppieters Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:28:06 +0000 http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=525#comment-973 I found another workaround which seems to work rather well: http://rorohiko.blogspot.com/2009/07/vmware-fusion-and-timemachine.html Cheers, Kris I found another workaround which seems to work rather well:

http://rorohiko.blogspot.com/2009/07/vmware-fusion-and-timemachine.html

Cheers,

Kris

]]> By: Chris Ryder http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/time-machine-and-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-960 Chris Ryder Tue, 26 May 2009 09:47:10 +0000 http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=525#comment-960 Another trick that I now use for my Parallels VM's (same issue as with Fusion) is to create a sparse disk image with Disk Utility, then store my VM disks on the sparse disk image. I have the sparse disk image in my login items so that it gets automatically mounted when I log in. The sparse disk is made up of a folder of small files (4MB, I think...), so time machine only ever backs up those 4MB files that have changed, rather than the entire disk image or VM disk... Another trick that I now use for my Parallels VM’s (same issue as with Fusion) is to create a sparse disk image with Disk Utility, then store my VM disks on the sparse disk image. I have the sparse disk image in my login items so that it gets automatically mounted when I log in. The sparse disk is made up of a folder of small files (4MB, I think…), so time machine only ever backs up those 4MB files that have changed, rather than the entire disk image or VM disk…

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