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leventeliu · ‎07-02-2023

This is the right answer, the key point is that wmware's tool does not deal with different guest filesystems, I was always wrong about this

leventeliu · ‎07-02-2023

From the article you provided: ... Prerequisites Verify that you are using a Windows host and that the guest operating system uses NTFS. (NTFS is standard in Windows XP or later operating sy...

From the article you provided: ... Prerequisites Verify that you are using a Windows host and that the guest operating system uses NTFS. (NTFS is standard in Windows XP or later operating systems.) This feature works on all NTFS hard disks but reclaims more disk space if the operating system is Windows XP or later. My guest OS is not using NTFS so this doesn't seem to be the right solution.

leventeliu · ‎06-30-2023

Oh, this sounds like the missing piece of my puzzle, I should try it later, thanks!

leventeliu · ‎06-30-2023

After long-term usage, one of my virtual disks seems to be irreversibly taking much more space in its host OS than actual usage in the guest OS. Since my laptop has only 1TB disk and no way to add ot...

After long-term usage, one of my virtual disks seems to be irreversibly taking much more space in its host OS than actual usage in the guest OS. Since my laptop has only 1TB disk and no way to add other disks for now, I have to find a way to solve this before it consumes all disk space up. Here is some information: Product VMware® Workstation 16 Pro 16.2.5 build-20904516 Host OS Windows 11 Pro Guest OS Linux 5.15.114-2-MANJARO Disk type 0 (single growable virtual disk) Snapshots/disk chain none Disk usage in Guest 92G Disk format in Guest 1 primary partition of etx4, 500GB capacity Disk file usage in Host 244G What I have tried: defragmenting and shrinking, multiple times, it seems 244G is the best I can get. Maybe another solution: create a new disk, partition, format, mount, and copy data from the old disk. I tried this on another smaller and irrelevant disk and it works fine - the newly created disk file takes 9G while its disk usage is 8.9G in the Guest OS, but it's the last thing I want to do with my home data disk. Any better idea?

leventeliu · ‎09-17-2020

Hi, thanks for the help. By the suggestion, do you mean 16.x doesn't work properly on 3D acceleration currently? So, I tried two things: downgraded the profile to 15.x, everything worked again...

Hi, thanks for the help. By the suggestion, do you mean 16.x doesn't work properly on 3D acceleration currently? So, I tried two things: downgraded the profile to 15.x, everything worked again; used 16.x without 3D acceleration, still couldn't boot. And one more thing, while using Workstation 15, I noticed that a running Linux VM would prevent the Surface Book tablet detach progress, cause it selectively occupied GTX graphic I guessed, even if I didn't specify the high performance graphic setting for VMware. But with Workstation 16, it doesn't prevent detaching anymore. Does this mean anything? So what's next I can do? Do I have to keep using the 15.x profile on Workstation 16 ? My original intention was to acquire a better graphic experience in a Linux VM. Although most of my work is done in the terminal, graphical IDE like VSCode is needed sometimes. And it's still running very very laggy in 15.x, even with a fairly high-end hardware set. Looking forward to any useful advice!

leventeliu · ‎09-17-2020

I constantly use manjaro on workstation 15, but after upgraded the VM to 16.x it won't boot anymore (ran into a black screen). Then I tried starting from a new ISO image, succeeded to enter the ...

I constantly use manjaro on workstation 15, but after upgraded the VM to 16.x it won't boot anymore (ran into a black screen). Then I tried starting from a new ISO image, succeeded to enter the boot menu, but failed to boot after selected the installation program. Same thing -- black screen, and cannot switch to another tty session. Attachment is the collected data for support request.

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