Thursday, September 30, 2010
If you cannot ping a Windows 7 box, don't just disable the Windows Firewall. See the following page describing how to enable the included ICMP Echo rule in the Windows Firewall:
http://www.fixya.com/support/r5359816-allow_ping_icmp_echo_request_windows_7
Note that I shut down the Windows Firewall service (net stop mpssvc) and this did not "re-enable" ping. I had to add the firewall rule. There may be another solution, but this solved my problem.
Rob
If you have older VMware Workstation disk images (vmdk files) that are split into multiple parts, you can consolidate them into a single disk image from the command prompt:
vmware-vdiskmanager -r MyVirtualMachineDisk.vmdk -t 0 SingleDiskFile.vmdk
The "-t 0" means "single growable virtual disk". If you prefer to preallocate all the storage for the disk, use "-t 2" instead, which means "preallocated virtual disk." You can view more options by running the vmware-vdiskmanager command with no parameters. It will show you what options are available.
I found this solution at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=740914
Rob