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hassiman
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How do I use the Fusion Importer App to create a expanding disk from a Parallels VM instead of a fixed virtual disk size?

Hi,

My Parallels VM's disk size takes up 5+ GB on my Mac's drive but reads 22+GB when it's Virtual disk space is seem in the Win XP application when it is running.

I used Fusion's importer app to migrate the Parallels VM into Fusion but now the Fusion VM of the same XP setup is taking up 22+ GB of actual disk space on my Mac's drive.

Is there any way to run the import / conversion utility so that like the Parallels VM the Fusion VM takes up a much smaller amount of disk space and the VM actual disk usage expands as necessary??

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WoodyZ
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Since you have already converted from Parallels to Fusion a faster easier way to accomplish what your trying to do would be to use the following...

vdiskmanager GUI by etung

http://communities.vmware.com/message/674493#674493

It's a GUI Wrapper for: "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager"

Works nice too! Smiley Happy

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Pat_Lee
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As Woody said, Eric's VDiskManager GUI can help.

Just so you know, the default setting for a Parallels VM import in VMware Importer is to import a split, sparse disk which in English is a growing disk. Unless you changed the default settings when you imported, you should have a growing disk by default.

Pat

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hassiman
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Dear Pat,

I started importer up again last night and there were 2 choices... either fixed size and another. Should I leave both unchecked if I want a Virtual disk that is small but expands when needed?

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Pat_Lee
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The default settings are for an expanding disk (starts small), that is split into 2 GB chunks. So, leave the default settings which are first option unchecked and second option checked.

Pat

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hassiman
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Pat,

Is there any disadvantage to the 2GB chunk VM default option?

Thanks,

Rich

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Pat_Lee
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Is there any disadvantage to the 2GB chunk VM default option?

For most users, absolutely not and it is the most compatible, which is why we chose it.

Pat

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