Increase your Virtual machines disk size. Background. The geekzilla team have been using VMWare for over a year now for desktop virtualisation. There are loads of benefits of virtualisation, but the most obvious one for me is increased stability. For years I had a single machine with every tool under the sun installed, and stability was a real issue. Today I have a basic Windows Vista host, with e mail, office and web browsing capability and VMWare that I use to run specific virtual machines for different tasks. Everything has been great with my development Virtual Machine. The main hard disk was sized to 1. Gb, with 2. Gb free. But when I needed to install Visual Studio 2. SP1 and SQL Server 2. SP2 I ran out of disk space. I tried to increase the size of the disk using VMwares diskmanager but ran into a number of difficulties along the way. Okay first thing to do is to check the VMDK virtual machine disk integrity. I chose to run checkdisk within my Virtual Machine. Youll need to reboot and the disk will be checked before the machine starts. Once youre happy with the integrity of your disk its time to expand it. Using vmware vdiskmanager. You must power the machine off first in VMWare workstation or VMWare Player. Navigate to your VMWare folder and issue the following command from the command prompt, passing x to increase the size followed by the new size e. Gb, followed by the path to the vmdk file you want to resize. C Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstationvmware vdiskmanager  x 2. Gb d VM Foldervmdiskfile. This will take some time, and once complete the application will give you some sizing messages. Now you need to expand the capacity of the disk to take advantage of its new size. If the disk is the system volume you will need to mount the disk in a second VM and expand it from there. Zip Code For St Francis Ks. If its not a system volume do it within the virtual machine it belongs to. Once youve mounted the disk in a different VM or booted up the VM it belongs to if its not the system volume, do the following. Go to the command line and start the diskpart utility. By issuing the following command. Once youve started diskpart, list the drives using the following command. This will show you the disks assigned to your machine. Install Vmware Vdiskmanager Linux' title='Install Vmware Vdiskmanager Linux' />Now the important command. This will show you the drives, their volume number, capacity etc. You now need to select the volume you are about to expand, using the following command. Where n is equal to the number of the volume. Once selected, you can now expand it using the extend command. You can optionally specify the amount extend it by. Once youve extended the disk, its wise to defrag the drive. Symbol Barcode 7 3 0 1 Exeter'>Symbol Barcode 7 3 0 1 Exeter. If you use the defragment tool in VMWare workstation you will find it much quicker than deframenting the drive from within the machine. Virtualisation is great. Using an external Hard Disk, take regular snapshots of your Virtual Machine as a backup. I was fortunate to have backups prior to VS2. How to Install and Run Windows Within the QEMU Emulator on an OpenBSD or Linux Desktop. Since this is a vmdk file, you could use VMWares vdiskmanager, if its available for your platform. VMWare has x86 Linux, Windows, and OS X versions here. The builtin search feature in Windows 7 is significantly better than the horrible search options in Windows XP. Instead of installing a thirdparty progra. SP1 and SQL 2. 00. SP2 trying to install on the disk when there was insufficient capacity. For some reason SQL 2. I hope you have discovered how useful Virtualisation, especially for developers. If you ever run out of disk space on your Virtual machine you can use the technique above to extend the drives capacity. Author Paul Marshall. A self confessed Microsoft bigot, Paul loves all Microsoft products with a particular fondness for SQL Server. Paul is currently focusing on Web 2. I love the. net platform, and I find it to be the most productive toolset I have used to date.