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trevwhite
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Shrinking OpenSuse 11.4

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone can help, I have an OpenSuse 11.4 virtual machine but the thick provisioned VMDK has been sized too big and I want to reduce it whilst still keeping it thick provisioned.

VMWare converter only shows me the option to do a disk-based copy whereas I want to resize the volumes using volume copy.

I've tried resizing the OS using gparted and using VMWare workstation vmware-vdiskmanager to resize the VMDK also but it just errors if you try to make it smaller.

Any ideas?

I've attached the diagnostic logs.

Thanks in advance.

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patanassov
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Hmm, may be you should reconfigure it manually. Converter supports SLES, it may not work correctly with OpenSuse.

Try booting the target VM with a live CD, install GRUB (hope it's not an ELILO machine?) and rebuild inirtd image.

(and don't decommission the source until you are sure everything is ok!)

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ivivanov
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You can try to convert is a powered-on source machine.

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trevwhite
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No, I've been doing it from a powered off machine.  I've just tried with it powered on and it says "Cannot covert a powered-on machine".

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patanassov
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Treat it as a physical machine

trevwhite
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Many thanks, I got the option as a physical machine which is excellent and it converted ok, but on bootup kernal paniced, any ideas?

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patanassov
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Hmm, may be you should reconfigure it manually. Converter supports SLES, it may not work correctly with OpenSuse.

Try booting the target VM with a live CD, install GRUB (hope it's not an ELILO machine?) and rebuild inirtd image.

(and don't decommission the source until you are sure everything is ok!)

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trevwhite
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Excellent, many thanks, that worked.

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