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Fortunately, this is (relatively) easy to fix. I’m probably not the only VMware user who has underestimated the amount of disk space he needs, only to find out a couple of months later, that the disk is filling up faster than expected. And the golden rule to always make a backup before you try stuff like this, still applies of course (I *do* mention this in the post)…
Vmware fusion mac gparted update#
A quick test to grow an image failed with a malloc error, but I will look into this and update this post. Apparently, there is a better tool to manage vmware images, called diskTool (typically found under /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS). And although I have used this myself with no problems so far, I do believe that it’s better to be safe than sorry. If you have to restore a properly backed up Virtual Machine that is not as current at least you'll have a working Virtual Machine and current User Data to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine Backup of the Virtual Machine fails.Someone going under the name ‘longhorn’ just posted a comment that the method described here is dangerous and has led to problems with his image. Then keep the User Data that is stored within the Virtual Machine backed up off of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis so as to always have a current User Data Backup. At a minimum I would exclude Virtual Machines from Time Machine and with the Virtual Machines shutdown, not suspended, and VMware Fusion closed then manually copy the Virtual Machines Package(s) to an alternate location, preferably on to a different physical hard disk. Also backing up Virtual Machines via Time Machine is disk/time intensive and wastes a tremendous amount of space for something that may be corrupt and worthless come time to restore it. * It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring Virtual Machines under all circumstances/conditions. Nonetheless, this is why aside from the fact that one should always maintain proper * backups anyway, it is very important when performing disk level operations on either stage such as this that one ensures that they have a known good working backup to fall back on in the event of an irreparable failure of either stage. I personally have never had a failure of the first stage however I've seen it reported only a few or so times over the years. If expanding the disk/partition fails under normal techniques then I'd image the existing virtual hard drive to another using Symantec Norton Ghost or similar disk imaging product, then swap the drives out in the.
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How, explicitly and specifically, did you expand the disk/partition the first time? Which leads me to the following question.
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Resizing a virtual hard disk is a multistep process, changing the size of the virtual disk itself and then doing the steps necessary to utilize the added space either by expanding the existing virtual partition or creating additional partitions. I have restored the backed up vm to my mac and I’m back to square one… any further ideas?
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Vmware fusion mac gparted windows 7#
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My Win 7 virtual machine c drive was running out of space so i went to Virtual Machine > Settings > Hard Disk and used the slider to increase the disk size from 100 GB to 250 GB. I have the latest version of VMware fusion and i am running a windows 7 virtual machine.
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I extended my VM fusion for mac virtual machine disk but its only half showing.