Category: OS X

Disable Apple HFS driver helps with Veeam Entpoint Backup and VSS errors

Do you have problems with Veeam Entpoint Backup or Windows Backup fails with VSS error 12289 on a iMac? Just disable the Apple HFS driver and reboot. I use Autoruns from Sysinternals for that:

After that you have no access to the OS X HFS partitions, but for me this is no problem. I haven't use that any time.

[via]http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/4556-cannot-make-system-image-vss-error-12289-a-3.html#post207784[/via]

Add a physical disk to VMware Fusion

1. Get Disk-ID from Disk Utility.app ("disk1" in my case)
2. Open Terminal
3.Change current directory to:

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/

4. Run vmware-rawdiskCreator with the right disk. This will create a new external-hdd.vmdk file in your home folder:

./vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk1 fullDevice ~/external-hdd ide

5. Open Vm Config file (*.vmx) with TextEdit and add following lines:

ide1:1.present = "TRUE"
ide1:1.fileName = "external-hdd.vmdk"

6. save and quit
[via]http://techrem.blogspot.de/2012/12/add-physical-disk-to-vmware-fusion.html[/via]