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Andre Savoie
Asked: 2021-07-17 17:41:50 +0800 CST

Has anyone successfully booted to a local VM from a .VMDK downloaded from GCP

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Exporting a custom image to Cloud Storage I did this, then downloaded the .VMDK file one large 30gb file.

I have VMware workstation Pro 15.5 I am new to this whole VM thing. I managed to make an image of my GCP webserver instance and then saved it in my bucket to a .VMDK file and downloaded it.

The place it stalls the VM on startup

I get so far as "Clock Source: Switched clocksource to tsc" Then it stalls the Virtual Machine.

It is a Bitnami stack of Debian 10, wordpress pro, ngnix and lets encrypt.

google-cloud-platform vmware-workstation bitnami

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  1. Ok so here is the scoop instead of adding a SCSI HDD, you have to add the .VMDK as an IDE HDD.

    It booted to linux login BOOT!

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