VMWare Hard drive

[smack323]

I have three or 4 virtual machines, one is a 32bit Windows 7 OS that I originally set up for testing and didnt make the hard drive very big. I now want to use it for school and need more space on the hard drive. I looked in the settings for the hard drive but didnt see anything that would let me increase the size of the hard drive. Does anyone know how to do this?

[kenc51]

Not sure about VMWare Server, but with workstation and ESX you can "expand" the HDD
Goto "Edit Virtual Machine Settings" then select the HDD and there should be a "Utilities" option on the right.
Just click "Expand" and re-size the HDD to whatever you want.

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You can then create a new partition on the HDD or use any other hdd utility to resize the current partition to fill the newly resized HDD
VMWare knows nothing of partitions etc.

[smack323]

I thought I tried that- I am using workstation. i'll check again when i get home

[smack323]

yup that seems to be it.. thanks - I am not sure how I missed that when looking threw the options

[kenc51]

yup that seems to be it.. thanks - I am not sure how I missed that when looking threw the options

NP anytime!
I use vmware a lot, both ESXi and workstation, both at home and in work

[smack323]

odd when I went on on of my VM's to check what you said it was an option- my win7 64bit VM, but when I went into the Win7 32bit VM that I needed to increase the disk size it is not an option. so I just added another virtual hard drive to the system.

[kenc51]

odd when I went on on of my VM's to check what you said it was an option- my win7 64bit VM, but when I went into the Win7 32bit VM that I needed to increase the disk size it is not an option. so I just added another virtual hard drive to the system.

sounds like you "Pre-allocated" the space when creating the HDD for win7 32 bit

[smack323]

ok i thought i did but i guess not. it says disk space is not preallocated for this hard disk.. now the extra hard drive made is gone also

[kenc51]

ok i thought i did but i guess not. it says disk space is not preallocated for this hard disk.. now the extra hard drive made is gone also

Sounds like a software issue with VMware itself
You should check the logs in "C:\Users\Your PC username\AppData\Local\VMware\vpx"

[smack323]

I checked the folder for the machine and could see the drive- but when i started up workstation it didnt show up. I deleted it from the folder and made a new one. Then I turned on the machine and disk managed/formatted it right away.. all seems to be good now. now i am just waiting for visual studio to finish installing. hopefully this is the last of my issues with this VM.