How to resize the size of the virtual disk for Linux guest OS

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• cannot resize the virtual disk (vmdk) after successful hyper-v conversion

  Hello

  We are experiencing an environment vSphere 4.1. I have a problem on the Ramdisk resizing.

  We had managed to convert a hyper v VM. Virtual machine operating system is Windows 2008.

  After that, I can't resize the virtual disk (GB in disk options was gray-ed out, even when the virtual machine is power down)

  It's strange

  I have attached several screenshot of the virtual machine.

  Need your advice.

  Thank you

  His grace is on the IDE interface and you can not resize. the only way is to reclone using vmware converter and resize in the wizard. For more information: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/05/28/resizing-your-ide-virtual-harddisk/

• Resize the virtual disk

  I just had to re - create a virtual machine because my original size was too small.

  First, is there a way for me to expand the drive without having to recreate?  and

  I had a disk Acronis True Image backup, and I was trying just res it toe to a larger drive, but I couldn't understand how to launch True Image so that the virtual machine can boot from the disc of TI and start the restore.  I got the TI part to run (by installing the disk, thinking I could then restore the image "on"), but he could not see my USB external drive.

  It seems from what I see the recognition of the external USB drives is difficult - does include flash drives? -So how/where can I back up my VM so it will be available for a restore and visible to the Acronis boot CD - because I'm assuming that my installation of TI in the hopes of restoring the top disc would not work (in any case).

  Kind regards

  Chuck bobo

  Hello

  Please find the attached file that will help you on how to resize the VMDK without the original data.

  Thank you

  Tanav

• How to correlate the virtual disk on the disk of OS

  I need to remove one of the virtual virtual machine disks. The problem is that I have two identical drives, more they are on Rible virtual scsi adapters so if I look at the properties of disks in disk management, they are both targets ID 0. Is there another way to correlate the virtual disk belongs to disk inside the BONE?

  ESX4.1U2

  W2K8R2

  TIA

  Troy

  Since this is often not easy to understand, I usually create each disc with a slightly different size. That said, resize one of the disks (for example add 1 GB virtual disk) and you will be able to identify the disk that you want to remove.

  André

• How to configure the virtual disk as SSD for the customer?

  Hi all:

  I have a virtual machine in an SSD, the guest operating system is Windows 8, but the guest OS, the virtual disk as 'hard drive '.

  Can I set the virtual disk as SSD for the guset? (Like VirtualBox)

  Thank you!

  Irake99 wrote: can I put the virtual disk as SSD for the guset? (Like VirtualBox)

  No, IDE or SCSI are your only choice.

• How to configure the virtual machine for the changes to forget

  Hi, I want to ask if it is possible together in the virtual machine for the changes to forget. For example - user run VM... make some changes in the configuration. Then come a new user has it want to have clear (without changes in the configuration) virtual machine. Is possible together closed the machine after changes lost?

  Sorry for my English.

  Thanks for help.

  Hi Polo939

  First, you will need to take a snapshot of the virtual machine.

  • Select your virtual machine

  • Click on "take a snapshot" on the right-hand side of the web interface

  Then you must configure the virtual machine to go back to the snapshot when it is turned off.

  • Click on "configure the VM.

  • Click the "snapshot".

  • Select "back to overview" under when you feed off option

• Copy of the virtual disk for use by another virtual machine

  Hi all! How can I copy a virtual disk file to a location for future use by another virtual machine? I tried to just copy the hard, but it did not work for me - the copy is about 1 KB size and I can not add it as a hard drive on another virtual machine. Can someone help me?

  OK, so this client web vSphere that you use, in this case browse datastore doesn't show you the two files.

  Please follow the steps below

  Please go to Cluster & host inventory

  Select your ESXi host

  go to the tab 'Manage'-> settings-> Security-> Service Profile, and then click the button CHANGE

  Start the SSH service.

  If please use WinSCP to connect to your Esxi host and navigate to the folder of the virtual machine as in the screenshot to the suite, I navigated to a folder that is my VM name: Win10A

  and it has a virtual disk, if I want to take the virtual disk of this virtual machine to a different VM, I need to copy the two files that are highlighted.

  the two are to train your virtual disk.

  

  Download these two files and download them to another folder where you second VM resides, then try to tie it with this virtual machine.

• Cannot resize the virtual disk, the virtual machine by using a «child» vmdk file

  Release: VMWare workstation 9

  SE host: Windows 7 64-bit

  Screenshots below.

  I want to resize my VM from 50 GB to 100 GB.

  It seems that VMware workstation 9 uses a child for my VM vmdk.  In my case, using its "Windows Server 2008 R2 x 64 - 000001.vmdk" for its virtual disk file.  The correct file should be "Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.vmdk", I think.

  There are currently no snapshots registered for this virtual machine, I see.

  The virtual machine works well as is, but I can't resize the disk without the VMWare gui, saying I should be perform the operation on the parent vmdk file.

  It seems that I do run a snapshot that is not really a snapshot?  How to merge with the older files - Sxx.vmdk to 0000xx - Sxxx.vmdk

  I also tried to use the command line tool to manually resize the vmdk parent, but I get permission "access denied" errors.

  Kind regards

  Matt

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  Parameters of the HARD disk:

  

  Error:

  

  Files:

  

  He no snapshots are displayed in the Manager of snapshot with the check box 'Show AutoProtect snapshots' verified then the snapshot is an orphan and the best way I use normally to fix this if I want the contents of the snapshot of orphan to be among the basic disk is with tab of the virtual machine in VMware Workstation GUI closed I simply delete the .vmsd file and then open the virtual machine tab in the VMware Workstation GUI and cover and immediately remove a snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.  This will force the orphan snapshot to merge with the parent disk.  Then to clean I still remove the .vmsd file and orphans, .vmsn and .vmem file.

  Note: Before the procedure you have a good backup of the virtual machine in case you accidentally mess something up.

• Cannot resize the virtual disk

  My vm upgraded allows no expansion vdisk in the pane settings; said must delete all snapshots, yet no old clichés exist. Version 2.0.2 (147997) to run on a MBP 17 "intel 2.16 g.

  Based on list stamps and the date/time of file on the files, you have a snapshot in place and you can try to remove it by trying the following with the not suspended, and Virtual Machine within Windows to stop.

  Take a snapshot, and then immediately delete the snapshot.

  Note: I personally don't do without first making sure that I have all the user data saved from within the Virtual Machine from a store outside of the Virtual Machine and or a manual full copy of all of the Virtual Machine.  Just in case!

• How to pass the virtual computer for the upgrade of the hard drive?

  I installed ESXi on a server with only 80 GB installed hard drive (RAID-1). Now, I'll upgrade the two 1 TB drives (RAID-1). What is the best possible method to back up my VM?

  I have a standby server. Installed ESXi on it and transferred a VM using VMware Converter for this spare server. After upgrading the hard disk and reinstall ESXi I want to transfer my VM to the server of origin.

  Is this the right way or is there an easier way?

  Thank you

  Chantal

  Hello

  I don't see a problem in you turn the VM on the server as well spare, you can very well do it and use it until your main server is up and Runnin'. Once the primary server running stops the virtual machine on the spare part and then copy.

  Thank you

  Samir

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• How to create the shared library for linux real-time target in labVIEW Windows?

  I use myRIO running linux in real time. In my project, I need to pack some C code, so I tried the node library function call.

  I know that I should use the tools compile cross - compile linux on Eclipse to compile c code in linux .so library. But the problem is that call library function node does not recognize the .so file because my labVIEW runs on a Windows PC.

  What should I do to fix and how to combine C code with labVIEW during programming for devices shipped as myRIO?

  Basically, you must also create a Windows DLL that exports the same functions. These functions can be empty stubs if you do not want to run the code correctly on Windows, otherwise you will need to consider how to implement the equivalent functionality on the Windows API.

  Then you can write in your node library call as the name of the library ". "*" and the name of the shared library Windows ".dll" while the Linux version is called "name of your library > .so". LabVIEW will replace the * after the comma in the name of library with everything that is the preferred extension shared library for the platform it is running on and therefore load the right shared library.

  Alternatively you can wrap call all the nodes of the library in a structure that contains the node library in the case of Linux RT and all what you want to run on other platforms in the case of default or a case of specific platform, call the conditional compilation.

• Creating a virtual machine for Linux guest in another HARD drive

  Hi all

  I have Vmware Workstation 8.0 on windows 7 x 64. This window is installed in the primary SSD (Sata port 0), also its mbr. I also have a Linux Ubuntu Natty x 64 in my HDD (Sata port 1) with Grub installed on the HARD drive. So when I go to start my SDD just windows when I want linux, simply go to the HARD drive.

  I tried to create a virtual machine to access the linux (using the physical disk, persistent writing) as a guest during the use of windows as a host, but so far had no success. Just to easy access to linux.

  I get the message of follow-up:

  

  The configuration for this virtual machine as follows:

  

  Intel Virtualization is enabled in my BIOS.

  My specs are:

  Processor

  Processor Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM

  Chipset

  Intel® HM65 Express Chipset

  8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM

  NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M 1.5 GB GDDR5 VRAM

  OCZ Vertex 3 128 GB SDD

  Western Digital 640 GB HARD drive

  Could someone help me?

  try to use "fullDevice" instead of "partitionedDevice" when you add the physical disk.

  It may also be necessary to put the disk status 'offline '.

  This worked in WS before 7?

  You can reach the vmware.log?

• Resize and repartition the virtual disk

  Hi all

  I'm under ESXi 4 Update 1 with a 1.6 to RAID 5, which is currently all dedicated to a machine virtual storage (it has no partition system on it, just the files). It currently has two partitions: a partition of 1.1 TB for files and a 500 GB partition with the old backups.

  What I want to do is to delete the partition of 500 GB, give 400GO of it to 1.1 TB partition and then resize the virtual disk so that there are 100GB left in the data store that I can attribute to another virtual machine.

  Who is? I searched, but never found any concrete answer on the subject and don't want to risk losing data to fumble with the controls.

  Thanks for any help.

  OK, now I understand your conifugration.

  You can't reach your end goal without going through a temporary storage in the Middle, like a usb orrr additiiiional on a San disk storage space or the local disk

  (1) create a vmfs on extra storage temp

  (2) use the vmware converter to clone your SBS installation to a new server with the correct (1.5 TB) disk size on the vmfs temp

  (3) delete your source VM

  (4) move the vm cloned to original VMFS

  BTW: it is not a good idea to have a 1.5 TB LUN/VMFS filled 1/2 virtual machines using the entire VMFS TB 1.5: you have no place for the exchange of memory (if needded) and for snapshots. Please allow more space on the VMFS for such tasks. Rule formula says (((maxVMs * avgSize) + 20%) + total vRAM)

• Save the number of the Virtual Machine: expand the size of the virtual disk of Guest OS affect the physical disk on the host operating system files?

  People,

  Hello. I use 3 Player VM and Guest OS Windows Server 2003. The host OS is Windows 7. I need to increase the size of the VM disk, so who can install several systems in the guest OS. If something bad happens during the expansion of the size of the virtual disk, the guest operating system and its Applications will not work. Thus, before expanding the size of the virtual disk, I need to back up the virtual machine hard disk external.

  I have check the disk hard host operating system Windows 7, the path is C:\VirtualMachine\WindowsServer2003\... When I get to the top of the virtual machine on the external hard drive, simply select the 'VirtualMachine' folder and save automatically. I have 3 questions as follows:

  First of all, if something bad happens during the expansion of the size of the virtual disk, the guest operating system and its Applications do not work. Can I just delete the folder 'VirtualMachine' in the host operating system?

  Secondly, the problem of the first question does not affect files in the physical hard disk to host operating system?

  Third, if something wrong happens during expand the size of the virtual disk of OS guest, I simply delete the folder 'VirtualMachine' in the host operating system and load the original 'VirtualMachine' from the external hard drive in the host operating system. Works correctly as long as one is the Virtual Machine before Stude the virtual disk size?

  Thank you.

  First of all, if something bad happens during the expansion of the size of the virtual disk, the guest operating system and its Applications do not work. Can I just delete the folder 'VirtualMachine' in the host operating system?

  Yes.

  Secondly, the problem of the first question does not affect files in the physical hard disk to host operating system?

  N °

  Third, if something wrong happens during expand the size of the virtual disk of OS guest, I simply delete the folder 'VirtualMachine' in the host operating system and load the original 'VirtualMachine' from the external hard drive in the host operating system. Works correctly as long as one is the Virtual Machine before Stude the virtual disk size?

  Yes.

  That's right, as long as you have not added and other virtual disks of different folders on the host of the virtual machine, you can probably did not.

  After developing the size of the virtual disk, you must also change the size of the partition in the guest operating system.

  André

• What is the right way to expand the virtual disk and then the OS partition?

  I have a Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine VMware.  I have

  you want to increase the size of the hard drive.  It currently has a 50 GB

  partition on a 50 GB VHD.  I increase the size of the

  50 GB to 100 GB in VMware virtual hard drive.  Then, can I use

  Windows disk management to increase the size of my partition of the

  side OS to use all the 100GB he sees now?  Or will

  corrupt my data or cause a problem as I really need to

  use a third party tool like EAUSUS inside Windows to extend Windows

  on the size of the virtual hard disk?

  In fact the way you describe, resize the virtual disk and then developing the partition are the way to go. But there are some things that you should be

  aware of.

  -If the VHD is on an IDE controller, you may not be able to resize the virtual disk. In this case use the converter. With the converter, you can resize the disk including the partition and - if desired - replace the IDE controller by a SCSI controller.

  -If you have only one partition under XP (that is, drive c :)) you cannot extend the partition with the diskmanager/diskpart. In this case, start your virtual machine from a CD/DVD Vista/Windows 7 in Repair Mode, open a command line and use "diskpart" from there to "extend" your partition.

  André