Posts Tagged ‘Fusion’

VMWare Fusion “Failed to Lock the File”

January 25, 2010Matt 2 Comments »

I had a VMWare Fusion crash today with a Windows virtual machine running. When I tried to bring it back up though I got a “Failed to Lock the File” error. Restarting VMWare didn’t fix it, rebooting didn’t fix it. After a quick search I found an article on a similar issue with the Windows [...]

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Shrink A Virtual Disk Size With VMWare Fusion

January 6, 2009Matt 8 Comments »

I came up against a problem today whilst working on fixing a design to work correctly in both IE6 and IE7. That problem was, I am running IE6 in a Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. Normally, I test IE7 on my Vista desktop and IE6 in the Virtual Machine. [...]

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