Storage root folder

[Bodger1234]

I am on Workstation 16 Pro (evaluating it).

I got it because it says I can install a Kubernetes cluster.

The documentation points to vctl.

I type vctl system info

And one of the items is "Storage root folder", which points to a directory on my C drive (C:\Users\Julian\.vctl\storage).   I can find zero documentation on this, and google has never heard of it in reference to vmware.  From the name I can imply it means where it sets up my storage, which I want on a different drive.

I went so far as to "vctl system config help" and no information on the "storage root folder"

Questions:

1) Is "Storage root folder" where it stores the kubernetes clusters and/or containers?

2) If that is the case, how do I move it to another drive?

3) Does anyone have any documentation on this?

[wila]

Hi,

The official documentation has this:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/16.0/com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-78E7339F-7294-4F...

Then there's the vctl doc over at github:

https://github.com/VMwareFusion/vctl-docs

With their getting started guide down here: https://github.com/VMwareFusion/vctl-docs/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md

Mike Roy also had some video shoots (one during vmworld, but he did another one.. let me see...)

Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8s3i6MCZE

VMware's Jeff Wu also wrote a piece about it here: https://medium.com/@jeff.wu.junfei/project-nautilus-a-new-container-runtime-d7c3574d2ae0

and perhaps this helps too:

https://rguske.github.io/post/a-closer-look-at-vmwares-project-nautilus/

--
Wil

[gaiush]

The official documentation doesn't seem to cover moving the storage root folder.

[gaiush]

In fact it implies that there is no way to do so, as it always comes off your home directory.

The getting started guide mentions

--cache-location

But this parameter is not recognised

PS C:\Users\gaius\.vctl> vctl system config --cache-location e:\.vctl
Error: unknown flag: --cache-location