Tuesday 17 April 2012

【Ken】How to increase the VMware disk space?

Once you may installed the VMware with recommend size of disk space.

It could be 30 GB (example).

As user installed more program, the Disk space of the VM is going to reduce for sure.

How can we increase the size of the disk space.

1) VM setting --> Select the Disk space ---> expand

Is it fixed the problem? No..

2) Because VMware it self doesn't have partition change ability to expand the VM OS disk space

Easy way to fix the problem is download the 3rd party disk partition software and installed it.

changed the the VM OS disk size to allocated disk space.

It will fixed the disk space shortage of VM OS disks.


I had installed Android API list to the VM with 5 GB disk space. then it used up most of space as download the API through Internet. I do the above step to manage for increasing disk space from 5GB to 10 GB without problem.


Ken
Software Engineer
kenchoiwind@gmail.com

4 comments:

  1. Can some one blog about VM converter, For what it is used?

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    1. HI, Steve

      I just posted for converter.

      It's like converting tool that creating VM machine from physical machine.

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    2. Thanks Ken. You can also use Vm convertor to clone VM, to increase size of VM or to update the VM.

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  2. Ken you can write another blog on

    Which 3rd party disk partition software you used and how you changed the the VM OS disk size to allocated disk space with few screen shots.

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