Impossible to expand virtual machine using workstation 8.04 disk
Hello
I recently installed workstation 8.04 on my Vista 32 with no problems.
Then, I installed Win 7 ultimate in my computer again without any problems.
Now, I tried to extend the VM disk but got the error below:
There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation.
There are 19 GB free on the host (Vista) and I expanded only VM 5 GB hard drive, but I still get the same error.
The virtual computer is in one file.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I guess that the virtual disk to the virtual machine is a unique hard (not a 2 GB sparse disk) file. In this case temporarily resize the virtual disk requires additional disk space, because the content of the virtual disk is copied to the new virtual disk file.
André
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