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Oh. Thank you so much!!! Copying now and will post once I verify that it is working :)
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Oh. Thank you so much!!! Copying now and will post once I verify that it is working :)

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Let us know please. ALL of us above have said to Copy the folders rather than clone.
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Let us know please. ALL of us above have said to Copy the folders rather than clone.

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YES. To copy the Folders with the VMDK (VM Machine) files, they need to be shut down (This is VMware Workstation).
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YES. To copy the Folders with the VMDK (VM Machine) files, they need to be shut down (This is VMware Workstation).

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YES,otherwise they will be locked, and you will not be able to copy!
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YES,otherwise they will be locked, and you will not be able to copy!

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Thank you all for the solution!
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Glad to help, creative555.<br />
Happy New Year!
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Glad to help, creative555.
Happy New Year!

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@creative555 &nbsp;- You are most welcome and I was happy to help along with the other experts here.
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@creative555  - You are most welcome and I was happy to help along with the other experts here.

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@All...<br />
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Prosperous EE New Year ALL!
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Hello,<br />
I was wondering what is the easiest way to copy vmware lab from one laptop to another one. I am using VMware Workstation 10 and have about 8 servers in my lab (DNS, DHCP, etc. I just bought a new laptop and want to recreate the lab. Will I need the product keys for the servers? Do I just clone each VM and try recreating them on my other laptop after I install VMware workstation 10? Could you please be as detailed as possible of how to recreate VMs on another host machine.<br />
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Thank you so much.
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Hello,
I was wondering what is the easiest way to copy vmware lab from one laptop to another one. I am using VMware Workstation 10 and have about 8 servers in my lab (DNS, DHCP, etc. I just bought a new laptop and want to recreate the lab. Will I need the product keys for the servers? Do I just clone each VM and try recreating them on my other laptop after I install VMware workstation 10? Could you please be as detailed as possible of how to recreate VMs on another host machine.


Thank you so much.

clone the lab on my laptop and recreate the lab on the other laptop

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.