How to expand your virtual hard disk while host hard disk space is not enough?

People,

Hello. I use VM Player 3. My host computer is Windows 7 and VM is Oracle Linux 5. I need to expand the virtual hard drive Oracle Linux 5 from 100 GB to 150 GB. When I click on VM > Settings > hard drive > utilities > expands...

The error message:

There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation.

To after my understanding, we have enough room to store the VHD original more expanded VHD.

This means that the free space on the host needs to be 100 GB + 150 = 250 GB

The total size of the hard disk of the Windows 7 host is 284 GB. The VM already occupies 100 GB of 284 GB. The maximum free space is 184 GB less space and boot OS. This means that I can't develop the 100 GB to 150 GB VHD.

But I have to expand the virtual hard disk! I don't know if there are other ways to expand the virtual hard disk.

My question is:

Folk understand some ways to expand the virtual hard drive ranging from 100 GB to 150 GB drive hard host is only 284 GB?

Thanks in advance.

You explained, it is the behavior with monolithic virtual disks, which is a unique hard file. Because the file requires more space for its metadata at the beginning of the file, all the blocks of data must be copied to a new file. With the format of sparse file 2 GB virtual disks can be extended without the need to copy the data into a new file hard, because each the hard contains its own metadata. In case you don't have at least ~ 100GB of disk space you can use vmware-vdiskmanager convert/clone the virtual drive command line utility in a format of 2 GB sparse file, delete the original virtual disk (after saving), then use vmware-vdiskmanager again to rename the new virtual disk to the old name. Once done, you will be able to expand the virtual disk as required.

André

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