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Question on Resizing a active VMware Image posted: Jun 22, 2009 5:25 PM

Click to view CamNetworkAdmin's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jun 22, 2009
Hello:

I did not set it up this way, but I have become owner of a glorified "workstation PC" running a Server OS, running VMware server. 1.0.8 . It has a WIndows 2003 Server VM runing in a VMware VM, when it was setup 250 GB was allocated for the Vmware disk drive windows is running on, the problem is I need to resize the VMware file, as the OS is only taking up 38 GB, and will never need more. I would like to use this Image as a test bed to create new vm's to test out some migration paths, but I can't copy it as I currently do not have enough space in the host to house another 250 GB of space. is there anyway I can shrink the size of the VMware file, so that I do not have to worrk about 250 gb of overhead that will be a total waste of space?

I tried booting up under the G-parted Linix Iso, and resize the windows volume, that worked fine, but the VMware side still shows 250 GB

thanks in advance

Click to view continuum's profile Guru 12,624 posts since
Dec 18, 2003

whats wrong with your keyboard ? - it seems to use bold letters all the time ? - maybe replace that with a working one ;-)

What about changing the preallocated disk to a growing one ? - that way you do not need to change anything in the VM itself - you just need to run vmware-vdiskmanager from a commandline and convert the large existing disk to a may 35 Gb file that then grows as needed

Run vmware-vdiskmanager without parameter to get info on the syntax

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