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Shared Virtual Reference Disks

The article below is outdated. Recent versions of VMware workstations fully support this feature.

I often create large numbers of disposable lab VMs by cloning reference disks. While it is straightforward to copy disk images, this method is time-consuming and can use up a lot disk space. For WMware 3.x, there is an advanced tech tip that describes how a reference disk can be shared between multiple VMs running concurrently. What follows is an adaption of this procedure for VMware Workstation 4.x.

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Posted by markus on Thursday, August 28, 2003
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