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5 Replies Last post: Feb 28, 2008 5:46 PM by etung
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Disk extents on BC converted VM

Feb 28, 2008 6:22 AM

Click to view todivefor's profile Enthusiast todivefor 161 posts since
Nov 22, 2007
Why am I getting all these disk extents (see attached) on my converted BC partition? Also I thought the .vmdk files were supposed to be put in the .vmwarevm bundle? Is that a manual process?
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Reply Re: Disk extents on BC converted VM Feb 28, 2008 6:35 AM
Click to view MandarMS's profile Master MandarMS 731 posts since
Nov 12, 2007 VMware

Currently your virtual disk is split in 2GB chunk files that’s
why you can see all .vmdk files from s001 to s017
Reply Re: Disk extents on BC converted VM Feb 28, 2008 6:49 AM
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Click to view todivefor's profile Enthusiast todivefor 161 posts since
Nov 22, 2007
Thank you MandaMS. Most of the extents are less than 1G. Why are they split anyway? I did not request 2G chunks when I converted.
Reply Re: Disk extents on BC converted VM Feb 28, 2008 7:30 AM
Click to view etung's profile Guru etung 11,030 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware
Also I thought the .vmdk files were supposed to be put in the .vmwarevm bundle? Is that a manual process?

Fusion is the only VMware product to use .vmwarevm bundles, because OS X is the only OS we run on that understands them. If you create a new virtual machine using an existing disk, the existing disk is not moved. You can move the .vmdk files yourself (you'll also have to fix up the path, either when Fusion gets confused and asks or by hand).
Reply Re: Disk extents on BC converted VM Feb 28, 2008 5:10 PM
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Click to view todivefor's profile Enthusiast todivefor 161 posts since
Nov 22, 2007
Thank you etung. Got them in the bundle, no problem. Is there a way to combine all the extents into a single? Should this be a concern?
Reply Re: Disk extents on BC converted VM Feb 28, 2008 5:46 PM
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Click to view etung's profile Guru etung 11,030 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware
Is there a way to combine all the extents into a single?

You can use vmware-vdiskmanager (or my GUI wrapper) to do this.

Should this be a concern?

I wouldn't worry about it - I actually prefer the split disk format for the reasons outlined in Choosing the Right Virtual Machine Settings and A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion
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