Comments on: Resizing VMWare Images

By: pierluigi vernetto

pierluigi vernetto — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:23:46 +0000

great material, very well written and fun to read

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:34:37 +0000

All good advice, though Partition Logic or other third party software isn’t needed. Just go into My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management on the VM and update. Voila!

By: cutaway

cutaway — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:27:07 +0000

@Josh,

I’m not up on VMWare Fusion so I cannot duplicate. I would review some of the boot options to see if you need to specify a specific drive type or some other boot option.

Good luck,
Don C. Weber

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:03:00 +0000

I was able to get VMWare Fusion set to boot from the ISO for Partition Logic, however Partitition Logic gives me the message “no hard disks registered” and I can’t figure out or find any information on how to proceed from here. Any ideas? Thanks!

By: cutaway

cutaway — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:51:32 +0000

@Antonine,

You only need Partition Logic if you are going to be installing to a local hard drive. I would not recommend that you dual boot to VMware because 1) it is not necessary, just create another image for the other OS, and 2) the image is going to be huge. This could impact performance.

“boot the image to the ISO” means that you need to point your CD-ROM resource to the ISO file on your hard drive. VMware will recognize this and run but none of the settings will be persistent. You may need to modify the boot order when VMware image is booting. To do this just start the system and hit F2 when you start seeing text on the screen (remember to get focus by clicking within the window). Then you can find the boot order, move the CD-ROM to be first, save and exit, and the VMware system should reboot. Zooommm! You’re off.

Go forth and do good things,
Don C. Weber

By: Antoine

Antoine — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:51:05 +0000

Hi, there is one thing that I do not understand: how do you get Partition Logic to recognize the vmdk disk as a real disk? What do you mean by “boot the image to the ISO”?

By: Svetoslav Ivanov

Svetoslav Ivanov — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:52:17 +0000

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problem. I had the same error message as you
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10x

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:45:44 +0000

Thanks for the write-up. Just what I needed, quickly and with the correct information.

By: christoph

christoph — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:17:45 +0000

thanks for this howto. i saved me a lot of time.