![]() The final step is hitting the "Apply" button, confirm everything, cross fingers and wait for the operations to succeed. In this step, we move /dev/sda5 inside /dev/sda2 to right end:Īfter clicking Resize/Move now we shrink /dev/sda2 to the size of /dev/sda5 by moving the left arrow to the right until it is blocked:Īfter clicking "Resize/Move" again, we finally can expand /dev/sda1 to the right: Fusion resizes the guest operating systems partition when you resize the virtual hard disk. Now we select /dev/sda5 and click Resize/Move again: Next, we increase the size of /dev/sda2 to use all available space: ![]() What we want to achieve now, is to merge the 10 GB unallocated space at the end of the list to the /dev/sda1 partition.įirst, we'll select /dev/sda2 (NOT /dev/sda5!): If you're running Ubuntu in your VM, it is likely that there might be a swap partition ( /dev/sda5 here) between the main partition and the aforementioned created, unallocated new space and your partitions might look like this: This will delay the boot sequence for 2000 ms and show the options. If the boot sequence is to fast, you can add this line to your VMs. You can select the boot device if you hit ESC right after powering on the VM. VMWare Tools for Windows 10.1.6 installed in guest. Select Automatically adjust user interface size in the virtual machine. Under Scale high resolution, select All View Modes. Select Use full resolution for Retina Display. In VMware Fusion menu, go to Settings > Display. To manage the partitions, we're using GParted, which is available as bootable ISO-Image.Īssign the downloaded ISO in your VMware CD-ROM drive and boot from it. Resize Virtual Machine to Fit does not work in a Windows Server 2016 guest. Optimizing Windows when running on a Retina display on VMware Fusion 8.x and above. Now we have some more space for partitions in our VM but we want to increase the size of an existing partition. ![]() Just stop the VM, click the expand button and increase as required: The desktop resizes very nicely in the first: Windows senses the resizing and uses smaller icons. Luckily, on the host there's always enough space available which can be assigned to an existing VM (isn't it?).Įxpanding the partition in the VMware Hardware options / hard disk details is pretty easy. So I install two Windows 7 VMs through VMware fusion 4. ![]() It's also casual that projects grow and you run out of disk space inside the VMs. Nowadays it's casual to use VMs for development environments. TL DR Hard Disk space can only be replaced with more Hard Disk spaceĭisclaimer: If you're doing things wrong described here you'll loose your data - create a backup first! ![]()
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