I’ve Virtual Machine called “maps” and i want change into “mapsnew”
0) shutdown the virtual machine
For first i backup the directory 
1) cp -arx maps/ maps.backup/
2) cd maps/
3) vmware-diskmanager -n maps.vmdk mapsnew.vmdk
4) i rename all file called maps into mapsnew
5) into configuration file mapsnew.vmx change all reference maps into mapsnew (this is possible use also sed command: sed -i ‘s/maps/mapsnew/g’ mapsnew.vmx
Bye…
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