Increasing the VM image size non-destructively?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by peterwor, Apr 27, 2006.

  1. peterwor

    peterwor Hunter

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    Is there any way to increase the size of my VM HD image without trashing the existing image?
    I made the mistake of only making the HD 10G and now I'm running out of space, I want to increse it to say 20G but I don't want to lose what I have and have to reinstall Windows all over again,
    I read about the image tool kit (or whatever its called) but its not available for OSX so am I really SOL?

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
    TIA,
    Peter
     
  2. mlandel

    mlandel Member

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    I solved this as follows for FAT32 partitions (dynamic sized):

    1) download the following freeware (google to find):
    g4u - this is ghost for unix and will copy a FAT32 drive
    presizer - this will will resize the copied drive/partition to use the added space
    2) create a new drive/image that is the size that you want
    3) add the new drive/image to your VM or create a new VM that has both drives/images
    4) boot the g4u cd image to copy the small drive/image to the large drive/image.
    This takes a while.
    5) boot from the presizer floppy image and run presizer on the larger drive/image. This adds the unused space to the parition, making it a copy of the smaller drive, only bigger.
    6) arvhive the small .hdd file for safety and transition to the new larger .hdd. I change the names to transisition as I like my primary drive image file to have the same name as the VM.

    That's it!. It's actually reasonably straight-forward and makes use of freely avaialbe tools. This is the same process that can be used on real PC's to transition from a smaller to a larger hard drive.

    Matt
     
  3. peterwor

    peterwor Hunter

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    M,
    Thanks, do you think you could elaborate just a little?
    1) G4U, I'm using OSx as my host will G4U run?
    2) I get the part about creaating a new VM of larger size, obviously blank to start.
    3) When yoy say "add" the new drive image to your VM what do you mean?
    4) How do I boot the g4u cd iamge?
    5) How do I boor from teh presizer image?

    I'd really appreciate some more deatil.

    TIA,
    Peter
     

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