Expand the virtual hard disk size in VMWARE (*. vmdk)

 

Http://blog.csdn.net/bshawk/archive/2008/01/28/2070587.aspx

 

 

When I recently compiled the kernel 2.6.22, I found that the FC6 hard disk space on the virtual machine was insufficient. As a result, I wanted to expand the hard disk size. After checking the information, someone on the Internet said that a new. vmdk would be created and mounted to FC6. I personally think this method is not good. Is there a way to directly expand the size of the original vmdk. After checking some information, click "vmwareself-help" and find the tool "vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" (located in the vmware installation path: C:/Program Files/VMware Workstation.

Let's take a look at the help book of vmware-vdiskmanager.exe(directly run vmware-vdiskmanager.exe without getting started ):

VMware Virtual Disk Manager-build 34685.
Usage: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe options diskname | drive-letter:
Offline disk manipulation Utility
Options:
-C: create disk; need to specify other create options
-D: defragment the specified Virtual Disk
-K: shrink the specified virtual disk
-N <source-disk>: rename the specified virtual disk; need
Specify destination disk-name
-P: prepare the mounted virtual disk specified
The drive-letter for shrinking
-Q: do not log messages
-R <source-disk>: convert the specified disk; need to specify
Destination disk-type
-X <New-capacity>: Expand the disk to the specified capacity
 
Additional options for create and convert:
-A <adapter>: (for use with-C only) adapter type (IDE, buslogic or lsilogic)
-S <size>: capacity of the Virtual Disk
-T <disk-type>: disk type ID
 
Disk types:
0: single growable virtual disk
1: growable virtual disk split in 2 Gb files
2: preallocated virtual disk
3: preallocated virtual disk split in 2 Gb files
 
The capacity can be specified in sectors, Kb, Mb or Gb.
The acceptable ranges:
Ide adapter: [100.0 Mb, 950.0 Gb]
SCSI adapter: [100.0 MB, 950.0 GB]
Vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-C-s 850 mb-A ide-T 0 myidedisk. vmdk
Ex 2: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-D mydisk. vmdk
Ex 3: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-r sourcedisk. vmdk-T 0 destinationdisk. vmdk
Ex 4: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-x 36 GB mydisk. vmdk
Vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-N sourcename. vmdk destinationname. vmdk
Ex 6: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-K mydisk. vmdk
Ex 7: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-p m:
(A Virtual Disk first needs to be mounted at M:
Using the VMware diskmount utility .)

No, the above ex4 has provided the command to expand the hard disk. For example, if I want to expand to 10 Gb, the command is as follows:

Vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-x 10 Gb linux-fc6.vmdk

Other references:

Vmware official information: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/disks_vdiskmanager_eg_ws.html