Therein lies the rub for OS X users, there is no vmware disk mount utility for OS X so it creates a chicken-and-egg problem or requires two copies of Windows (VMs of course) to accomplish. Before vmware-vdiskmanager was ported to OS X, this is how I had to use that utility.

Call me crazy but when I installed this program initially it prompted me to select the suggested size HD and could be changed later.....
I have never been so disappointed in a piece of software in 20 years of using computers....to do a simple task that the program tells me it could do later IF I WANTED TO I gotta go to university and become a friggin programmer to change this one task.....
I would have paid $500 for this software if VMWare just would have FINISHED it....this is a complete and utter failure for a supposedly professional piece of software.
I too could tell you how to diagnose and fix your own heat pump/refrigeration system but hell, isn't that what you paid me for and/or would think that when you switched it to cool from heat it would do just that....not ask you to go out and weld in a pilot operated 4 way system slide valve with HFC compatible driers and SLF.....so it will now cool as it said it would (except for the minor omission that it needed you to waste valuable hours to learn refrigeration, welding, refrigerant theory.....etc and install a days worth of STUFF).
If someone has a remote way to do this and wants to charge me for it please advise me.....

Damn

Why is this this all so hard!!!!!!!!!!

I used Parallels for a long time.

When I had to expand a drive it was a simpler process, no mucking about with the BIOS.

In the settings for the VM you could select the boot order.

VMware should really take a look, this is a MUCH better way of doing things.

Robin

Hmmmm

It seems if you want to boot from a CD (or iso file) you need to CONNECT the CD device!!!!!!!!!! Doh............

All done and up and working.

Still easier in Parallels BUT not as bad as I thought it was in VMware.

Plus maybe I did not lose the disk space either.......

Robin

Are you using the GUI or command line? If the command line, what's the exact command you're entering?

I had some errors, so I did this:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/140676?tstart=0

I'm interested in doing this but can't find vdiskmanager. Where is it? It is part of the VMWare install or do I have to add it? I have looked in library/application support but there is no vmware folder. I prefer to use the GUI but if not can use the command line. I even went into Terminal and went to my Library directory but it won't let me change to the Application Support directory.

The command-line program vmware-vdiskmanager comes with Fusion. My GUI wrapper does not; get it from earlier in this thread.