Grow vmware size

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, May 10, 2008

Today i ran out of diskspace on one of my systems that runs within a vmware session. The system disk only had 10 GB and I needed to add another 10 GB.

This is what i did:

  • Extend the disk in offline mode by running the following command: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20GB “C:\Users\Alex\Documents\Virtual Machines\Server 2003 - sysmanage\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-cl1.vmdk” It then takes a while until the disk is expanded.

  • Boot the system from WinPE 2.0

  • I then ran the following commands: diskpart

list disk
list volume
select volume=1 (in my case volume 1 is the volume that i had extended)
extend

Reboot the system and done.