Cannot expand the hard drive of a virtual computer that is a linked clone.

I have a virtual machine that is a linked another clone.

I did a lot of development and changes to the linked clone, and now ran out of disk space.

Now I want to extend the drive, but I get this error:

"Disks of virtual machines that are linked clones cannot be extended.

So I then try to extend the drive of the virtual machine that he was cloned from:

"Disks of VMS with snapshots cannot be extended. You must delete the snapshots or use VMWare vcenter converter. »

What can I do? If I remove the snapshots of the original machine, do not lose the 'link' to the linked clone? What he suggested that I use the "VMWare vcenter converter" for?

Does anyone have a solution?

Kind regards

James

Create a complete clone of the virtual machine in the current state. Which can be extended.

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