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Old 11-11-2008   #5 (permalink)
Steve Jain [MVP]


 
 

Re: Move same VPC between different physical machines?

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:59:17 -0800 (PST), Paul <listnz@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:

>thanks for your response Bo.
>
>When I attempted to open the VMC on the 2nd machine it responded that
>files were "locked" by another machine. I assumed thismeant the VMC
>knows about the hardware it expects.
>
>When I copied the VMC and used this one it worked, however it created
>a new undo disk and would not allow me to merge this when shutting
>down. Therefore when I moved the disk back to the original machine
>and opened the original VMC, it knows nothing about the undo disk and
>simply starts the VPC with it's own new undo disk.
>
>Therefore I can get both VMCs sharing the same base VHD, but just not
>both being able to use the same change set.
>
>It sounds like what you are doing is exactly what I want to be doing.
>
>Maybe it's Vista not allowing Admin access to the files as I am
>appearing as a different user on the 2 physical machines?
>
>regards,
>Paul.
You can't move a saved state between systems.

Also, the Undo info is stored in the VMC file, so that's why you're
seeing new undo disks created.

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