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I am using 3 OS's on VMware (XP,Win 8, and fedora) . Can anyone guide me through the process of backing up and restoring VMs on another machine(Using VMware) ?
I have 2 laptops and want to transfer a VM from 1 laptop to another.
 
VirtualBox (Oracle, formerly SUN Microsystems {Think Java})
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

The OS doesn't have to be Windows, as a VIRTUAL machine it is intended to support any OS you can install onto you real computer. Windows xx, Linux xx, FreeBSD xx, etc.

I am using 3 OS's on VMware (XP,Win 8, and fedora) . Can anyone guide me through the process of backing up and restoring VMs on another machine(Using VMware) ?
I have 2 laptops and want to transfer a VM from 1 laptop to another.
I haven't tried VMWare, but try browsing to your Virtual Machines Folder (Windows Explorer) and backing up that. You basically need the Virtual Hard Drives. I recommend using something like 7-Zip to compress the files as compression will dramatically cut file size if those drives have "free-space".
 
VirtualBox (Oracle, formerly SUN Microsystems {Think Java})
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

The OS doesn't have to be Windows, as a VIRTUAL machine it is intended to support any OS you can install onto you real computer. Windows xx, Linux xx, FreeBSD xx, etc.


I haven't tried VMWare, but try browsing to your Virtual Machines Folder (Windows Explorer) and backing up that. You basically need the Virtual Hard Drives. I recommend using something like 7-Zip to compress the files as compression will dramatically cut file size if those drives have "free-space".
oh yes may be I should try that way . thank you
 
Not legally... and please, no further answers to this particular question. I don't feel like cleaning up today.
 
You create a virtual machine, which is like an actual real machine, complete with BIOS and everything, and then you install XP in that, yes.

So, you wind up with XP running on your machine, and XP running inside a virtual machine running on XP running on your machine. You can then surf with the VM XP, knowing that you can just discard this VM if it becomes compromised.

Its really quite secure, since to the VM, the host OS is just another machine on the network, it has a firewall, etc.

Not just for XP as a VM, though. You can run Linux inside a VM, have access to the command line, tools, etc, but still be able to surf the Net, use e-mail, games etc on your XP host OS.

Its the future.

I think you trying to say sorta of more like program OS running on top of windows.But want is to stop the malware accessing files out side the virtual machine? That say you running windows 7 and your virtual machine is windows XP or Linux what is to stop malware accessing files out side the virtual machine?

Even if you do not use a virtual machine running windows 7 and surfing the internet with the guest account with little to no read and write access !! Yes because you are using limited read and write permission some malware can find loop holes through active x ,java and flash and bad programming.

Over 10 years a lot malware I see coming through active x ,java and flash and pop ups.

Unless you have no active x ,java and flash or script script enabled you still will get malware with guest account.
 
Myself, the virtual OS running inside the host OS is used infrequently and I do not use it for anything like financial transactions. I run an AV program within my virtual XP and am pretty confident my computer is secure enough. If you have specific concerns VMWare has a good forum where you could post specific questions. On all computers it's sensible to have software ready to roll if anything suspicious occurs and to run regular scans in any case. Even the biggest institutions are not 100% secure.

Whenever I fire up VMPlayer it lets me know if a new version is available. Installing it leaves the virtual OS and saved files untouched. Revised versions are likely to cover any security weaknesses that have been uncovered by their programmers.
 
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