Re: [Gumstix-users] How To Resize a VMWare Virtual Machine

[Jeff S. <jef...@gm...>]

just create a second disk if you want more space its much easier

On 10/24/07, David Rye <d....@ac...> wrote:
>
>
> An existing VMWare virtual machine (disk) *can* be resized - at least for
> linux hosted on windows. You shut down all VMs and use a command-line tool
> (part of VMWare Server, and maybe also VMWare Player) called
> vmware-vdiskmanager.exe. An example follows:
>
> --------- example begins --------------------------
> > Path\To\VMware Server\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 20GB
> > Path\To\VM\fedora-7-i386.vmdk
> Using log file vdiskmanager.log
> The old geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 1044/255/63
> The new geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 2610/255/63
> Disk expansion completed successfully.
>
> WARNING: If the virtual disk is partitioned, you must use a third-party
>          utility in the virtual machine to expand the size of the
>          partitions. For more information, see:
>          http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1647
> --------- example ends --------------------------
>
> The effect of this is to increase the size of the virtual **disk**. When you
> restart the virtual machine, you wind up with what looks like additional
> unpartitioned space on a disk. You then have to use one of the Linux
> partition management tools to partition this space or to adjust an existing
> partition to include the newly-created space.
>
> I found it in "Virtual Machine Guide", a 280 page PDF manual from VMWare...
>
>
>
> Duane Beck wrote:
> >
> > With VMware Player, I don't think so.  You need Workstation for that.
> >
> > On 10/23/07, Michael Caughey <mi...@ca...> wrote:
> >> I take that back.....  I used df in that environment and all space is
> >> used.
> >> I'm not at all familar with vm ware can i extend the volume in any way?
> >
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