Tips and Tricks

I recently bought a Buffalo LinkStation NAS drive to be used on my LAN. The idea being that all shared files to go there as also the VMs (I need lots of them for the work that I do!).

Installed the NAS drive, created shared areas, configured a DLNA server etc etc. All went fine. Now the moment of truth – would I be able to successfully run VMs that reside on NAS?

Setup was as follows:

• Windows 7 Prof
• VMWare Player 7.0.1
• Buffalo LinkStation NAS
• All connected through LAN

Launched one of the VMs by double clicking the .vmx file. All fine so far, VM Player kicks in and starts to load, but then the following error was thrown:

Here’s how to fix it:

• Edit your .vmx file with your favorite text editor
• Add a line to the end of this file:
• diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck="FALSE"

Now fire up the VM again and hopefully it should work as normal!