Comments on: Increase Your VMware Virtual Hard Disk Size ( vmdk file )

By: John Mulder

John Mulder — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:09:24 +0000

Nice. Very nice. Thanks a lot !

By: Drew Nichols

Drew Nichols — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:17:35 +0000

This worked like a charm for me. Thank you so much for the post.

By: Senthil Gurusamy

Senthil Gurusamy — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:57:18 +0000

Hi Vivek,
I am able to resize my hdd with this detailed steps.
Thanks for this nice tutorial.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:38:49 +0000

Hey thanks for the tutorial!

I was able to resize the disk but when I go into GParted I only have the option to increase the size of my extended partition not the ext3 boot partition (Running Ubuntu Server). Any way to fix that / make it work?

By: rohit

rohit — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:39:26 +0000

i have selected CD-ROM first in boot menu when i used key F10 Fig.03:( Resizing Windows Vista Virtual Disk) did not come ,what sud i do??
Please help me

By: ravi

ravi — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:00:15 +0000

If your guest is windows 2008, you can simply go to Computer Management-Storage and do Extend volume wizard. Its simple.

By: shakir

shakir — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:58:00 +0000

MY host os : Vista
Guest Os : Ubuntu
when i running the command
c:/programfiles/vmware/vmware-vdiskmanager -x 16GB “C:/ubuntu/ubuntu.vmdk”
i am getting the following error:
failed to expand the disk “C:/ubuntu/ubuntu.vmdk” one of the paremeters applied is invalid
any help apprecitated …..pls

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:36:41 +0000

worked like a charm on a C: win2k3 VM

thanks!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 17 May 2011 07:36:21 +0000

….does NOT work for OpenSolaris with ZFS file system.
Gparted tool does not recognize and allow resize of ZFS partitions.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:05:21 +0000

Great post. Although I am new to Linux, this post/tutorial really worked for me. Just as comment, with VMWare Workstation 7 there is the possibility to Power on to BIOS directly from the Menu (VM ->Power -> Power on to BIOS).

Many thanks.

By: ari

ari — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:59:28 +0000

great tutorial with good details, thanks.

By: Muhammad Tauqeer Iqbal

Muhammad Tauqeer Iqbal — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:22:17 +0000

Many Thanks

By: peter

peter — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:53:52 +0000

Thanks Vivek, I was able to extend my Linux .vmdk using vmware-vdiskmanager and the gpart live cd.

By: Sonny

Sonny — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:50:49 +0000

I usually use the Free download:
VMWare Converter

Tell it the source VM image
Tell it the folder to put the new image into
Tell it to enlarge the drive

don’t know if this works with VM Player… I’m running workstation 6.x

By: Vaibhav Ghadiok

Vaibhav Ghadiok — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:01:36 +0000

I am running ubuntu 8.04 using VMWare on Windows XP. I downloaded the vmware-vdiskmanager through the VDDK Development Kit (Since I am using VMWare Player. I have read a few posts stating that Ubuntu will automatically recognize and increase the vmdk but that is not happening. Any comments/suggestions?

Thanks.

By: ravindra

ravindra — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:27:05 +0000

HI
I installed Ubuntu as guest OS under windows XP(host system). Now i have a problem of disk space for ubuntu. How can i increase the ubuntu disk space…

Thank you

By: zairo

zairo — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:56:26 +0000

I’ve follow that step by step but when I open gparted in my vmware console, there’s disable option for resize button. I am using xubuntu 9.04 host and FreeBSD 6.3 Guest. I just don’t know where the wrong part is.

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:43:01 +0000

You can use system restore cd 1.1.2 this is very light tools gparted is included in this iso.. its only 239mb…
Download it then burn it.

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:40:18 +0000

Great step by step just got some trouble then now it work like a charm, i just get the turn around..
@ ulver if you want to de-crease it.. But go to gparted first to deacrease it using resize. Then delete the unallocated part of the this. the use repair from windows.

Actually i use Windows 7 RC

By: Ulver

Ulver — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:05:27 +0000

my question could be stupid ….but if you can use vmware-diskmanager to increse a partition …it will be posible to use to de-crease it ?