How to Increase VMWare Hard Disk Size?
I've been playing with virtual machines and testing some odd things that can not be easily tested on a real computer, suddenly I come across to a situation that my virtual machine's hard disk size needed to be increased.
It is one simple command! You just need to go where you installed VMWare WorkStation, there is a file named: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe
You just need to open a command window and run:
That's all.
It is one simple command! You just need to go where you installed VMWare WorkStation, there is a file named: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe
You just need to open a command window and run:
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x sizeGB virtualDiskFile.vmdk
That's all.
Labels: VMWare
posted by Mrt at
5:45 PM
2 Comments:
...unless your virtual disk has snapshots, which most do. If your virtual disk has snapshots then vmware-vdiskmanager pukes:-(
By
foo, At
August 11, 2009 7:47 AM
Yes, that's right, this command works only when your virtual machine does not have snapshots.
By
Mrt, At
August 20, 2009 4:37 PM
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