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How to consolidate orphaned snapshots in VirtualBox?

Recently I decided to clean some VMs with many "orphaned" snapshots in VirtualBox. I have done it by export and import VM. Following the VirtualBox KB: OVF cannot describe snapshots that were taken for a virtual machine. As a result, when you export a virtual machine that has snapshots, only the current state of the… Read More »

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 428: ordinal not in range(128) during VMware Workstation installation

I've decided to "return" to use VMware Workstation because I used Oracle VirtualBox for some years and this is a time for changes! Ok, the main reason is that I can connect to vCenter by VMware Workstation 😉 An installation of VMware Workstation is pretty easy but it didn't want to work 🙂 I got… Read More »