Incresing VM size

[johnyb]

sorry, iam a linux virgin but have used this excellent program to migrate an existing vmware vm to proxmox. However, how do i now increase the size of the vm from 8gb to 10gb? thnx

 

[thefool808]

I'm not sure there's any easy way to do that with this or any other virtualization software, but mostly it comes down to what your guest is capable of. So... what guest OS are you running?

 

[tom]

sorry, iam a linux virgin but have used this excellent program to migrate an existing vmware vm to proxmox. However, how do i now increase the size of the vm from 8gb to 10gb? thnx

hi,

for migration, see our migration wiki page.

increase the size of a vmware hard disk:

the vmware-vdiskmanager can extend vmware disks. but this extend only the disk, not the partition where the operation system is installed. to extend the operating system, you need to use the tools provides from the OS or third party disk tools.

 

[johnyb]

hi,

for migration, see our migration wiki page.

increase the size of a vmware hard disk:

the vmware-vdiskmanager can extend vmware disks. but this extend only the disk, not the partition where the operation system is installed. to extend the operating system, you need to use the tools provides from the OS or third party disk tools.

Thanks, however beinf a linux virgin any chance you could direct me to the specific command line string i would need to use, or somewhere that describes the options for the command (tried searching on Google without joy)

 

[johnyb]

I'm not sure there's any easy way to do that with this or any other virtualization software, but mostly it comes down to what your guest is capable of. So... what guest OS are you running?

XP, have followed all the instructions on migrations so now have
.qcow2 file.

 

[tom]

XP, have followed all the instructions on migrations so now have
.qcow2 file.

hi,
I just googled around found this:
http://tjworld.net/wiki/Howto/ResizeQemuDiskImages

I never tried this here, it looks that it would be easier to extend the disk with the vmware tools (vmware-vdiskmanager) before you convert the *vmdk to qcow2 (this works without problems).

after you did the extension, boot your xp on vmware. now you should see a 10 gb hard disk in windows and the c:\ partition is still 8 GB. As xp does not provide any tool to extend c: (vista can do this now) you need a third party partition tool to extend c:.

after you finished these 2 parts, follow the howto converting the vmdk to qcow2.