Increase the size of the partition on an existing virtual machine

I created a partition for a virtual XP machine, and it turns out be smaller that I needed her to be (2 GB). I want to extend the partition. I can do this to the existing, or partition should I install a brand new virtual machine and import an older?

Assuming you mean "virtual disk" instead of "partition", see resizing of the ramdisks with step by step Instructions. If you are talking about a real Boot Camp partition, is not associated with Fusion (except that if you change the Boot Camp partition, you must delete the virtual machine pointing to the old partition configuration).

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