VMWare Configuration Files

Examples

Windows XP Professional.vmx

This is a configuration with two disk...

.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "512"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Disk1.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "Disk2.vmdk"
ide1:0.deviceType = "disk"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
displayName = "WinXP"
guestOS = "winxppro"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

workingDir = ""

ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 89 90 19 80 aa 49-2f 69 31 f8 fc 28 0c 14"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 89 90 19 80 aa 49-2f 69 31 f8 fc 28 0c 14"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:28:0c:14"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.fileName = "Z:"
ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

ide0:1.present = "TRUE"
ide0:1.fileName = "auto detect"
ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"

ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"

checkpoint.vmState = ""
ide0:1.startConnected = "TRUE"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
unity.wasCapable = "FALSE"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
vmci0.id = "-507835991"
gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = "FALSE"
gui.viewModeAtPowerOn = "windowed"

usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"

floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

usb.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"

hgfs.mapRootShare = "TRUE"
hgfs.linkRootShare = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "/Arch"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "Arch"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"

ethernet1.present = "FALSE"
ethernet1.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"

annotation = "This is basic WInXP Pro install..."

Resizing Windows XP Disks in VMWare

Check out the following reference ... which describes how to mount the disk to be extended in another VM instance (as a second disk) and then start that instance and run the Windows tool, diskpart.exe, to extend the NTFS partition.