I am using VMWare for several reasons, but the purpose of this post is to show how to increase the harddisk capacity of a virtual machine. I am currently running out of space of the 10GB capacity, and want to pump it to 20GB..
1) Shut down the virtual machine if it is running.
2) Open a command prompt window, and navigate to the directory where the VMWare (.vmdk) file that represents the virtual disk that you want to expand resides in.
3) Type in the following… Of course, substitute with the correct path where you have installed the VMWare, as well as the name of your VMWare file.
“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20GB “My Virtual Machine.vmdk“
4) After that is completed, the disk capacity has been expanded but the increased space is still unallocated. You will need to use any Windows partition software to assign the unallocated space. I have used Partition Magic to do so, and it is really trivial.
5) And Viola! Its done! =)
