Host environment: Windows XP Professional x64 SP2
Guest environment: Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
Host environment free disk space: 31.1GB
Guest environment disk size: 13 GB (20 total, 7 free)
Guest environment disk size on host disk: 20 GB
VMWare version: Workstation 6.5.0 build 118166.
The issue:
I am currently unable to perform the shrink operation.
I've done a google search and come across a few scenarios :
However, I have not been able to resolve the issue.
The full message is as follows:
Shrink disk is disabled for this virtual machine. Shrinking is disabled for linked clones, parents of linked clones, pre-allocated disks, snapshots, and other factors.
This VM has definitely been shrunk before. I've attempted to reinstall VMWare Tools and this does not fix it. I've verified that there are no snapshots in snapshot manager. I've also tried as one of the threads suggested: adding a snapshot and then deleting it. I am unable to shrink the disk. For sure, it is not a linked clone or a parent of a linked clone (don't know how to use these). How can I tell if it's a pre-allocated disk (I don't think it is, but who knows)?
On the file system, the directory looks like so:
\<guid>.vmem.lck
\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmdk.lck
\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmx.lck
<guid>.vmem
vmware-0.log
vmware-1.log
vmware-2.log
vmware.log
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.nvram
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmdk
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmsd
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmx
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmxf
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-flat.vmdk
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
