Folks,
Hello. I am using VM Player 3. My host machine is Windows 7 and VM is Oracle Linux 5. I need to expand the Virtual Hard Disk of Oracle Linux 5 from 100GB to 150GB. When I click on VM > Settings > Hard Disk > Utilities > Expanding...
The error message comes up:
There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation.
Based on my understanding, we must have enough room to store original Virtual hard disk plus the expanded Virtual hard disk.
This means the free space on Host needs to be 100GB + 150GB = 250GB
The total size of the hard disk of Host Windows 7 is 284 GB. The VM already occupies 100GB of 284GB. The maximum free space is 184GB minus space to boot OS. This means I cannot expand the 100GB Virtual Hard Disk to 150GB.
But I have to expand the Virtual Hard Disk ! I don't know whether there are some other ways to expand Virtual Hard Disk.
My question is:
Can folk understand some ways to expand Virtual Hard Disk from 100GB to 150GB while the Host Hard Disk is only 284GB ?
Thanks in advance.