- This video discusses and demonstrates creating a virtual machine from an existing virtual disk in VMware Fusion.
You can create a virtual machine from an existing virtual disk. This is similar to taking a hard drive from one computer and putting it in another computer to boot.
You may want do this after consolidating snapshots into a new virtual disk, or as a troubleshooting measure to rule out problems with an existing virtual machine's configuration.
For additional details, check out VMware Knowledge Base article Creating a virtual machine from an existing virtual disk in Fusion (1023555) at
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