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".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.
oh yes may be I should try that way . thank youVirtualBox (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".
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.