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Register RSS Expanding a virtual VMware diskHome Blog Expanding a virtual VMware disk4sysops - The online community for SysAdmins and DevOps Michael Pietroforte Wed, Mar 29 2006Thu, Feb 18 2016 vmware 73 Update: There is a much easier way now to resize a virtual disk: Expand a virtual VMware disk cannot reboot guest os a general system error occurred invalid fault with VMware Converter. Also check out this article about my first impressions of a general system error occurred the virtual machine could not start VMware Converter 3.0 final.AboutLatest PostsMichael PietroforteMichael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable a general system error occurred connection refused Professional (MVP) with more than 30 years of experience in IT management and system administration. Latest posts by Michael Pietroforte (see all) Set Windows 10 Ethernet connection to metered with PowerShell - Tue, https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006232 Sep 27 2016 Disable updates in Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) using Group Policy - Wed, Sep 21 2016 Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition - Get your head in the cloud - Tue, Sep 13 2016 Today, my Windows XP test system running in a virtual machine under VMware Workstation 5.5 complained that there is not enough space anymore on the system partition. I thought it can't https://4sysops.com/archives/expanding-a-virtual-vmware-disk/ be too complicated to resize a virtual disk. After all, it is only virtual. I hoped to solve this problem within 5 minutes or so. Well, here's how it went:I was disappointed the first time when I realized that one can't change the size of a virtual disk with the VMware user interface. So I googled this problem, hoping to find an easy-to-use tool. What I found out was that the virtual disk can be resized on the command line using the VMware Virtual Disk Manager Utility. The documentation about this feature on the web is for VMware Workstation 4.5, but it also works with version 5.5 and also for VMware GSX Server.The command to expand a virtual disk looks like this:vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10GB myDisk.vmdk The new size of the virtual Disk will be 10 GB in this example. myDisk.vmdk is the file of the virtual disk on the host system. Usually this file won't be located in the same folder as vmware.exe. Thus, you have to specify the full path to the vmdk file. Don't forget to enclose the path in quotation marks, if the folder names contain spaces. You can find vmware.exe in the VMware insta
3 Can't Start VM 3.1 HA Admission Control 3.2 Failed to relocate virtual machine 3.3 Access to VMFS storage 3.4 VMFS full 3.5 ESX licensing 3.6 Waiting http://vwiki.co.uk/Troubleshooting_(Virtual_Machine) for question to be answered 3.7 Could not power on VM: No swap file. Failed to power on VM 3.8 Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/.../MyVM-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it https://www.scribd.com/document/152187514/VMWARE-Troubleshoot depends on... 3.9 General system error occurred... 4 Can't Stop / Power-Off a VM 5 VM is Powered On, but appears Powered Off 6 Can't VMotion a VM 7 Can't Increase a general a VM's Disk 8 Snapshots 8.1 Can't Create Snapshot 8.2 Can't Delete/Commit Snapshot 8.3 Is Snapshot Still Active? 8.4 Revert to Snapshot Causes Trust Relationship Failure 9 Can't Customise 10 Can't Connect VM's NIC 11 VMTools Automatic Cursor Release Not Working 12 Confirm VM's Status on ESX Can't Connect to VM Console Error connecting: Cannot connect to host... or Can't connect to MKS... a general system This is caused by a TCP connection failure to the ESX server the VM is hosted on. Using telnet or a port test utility, confirm you can connect on both TCP 902 and 443 from your machine to the ESX server. If the problem is affecting a single ESX that previously worked, restart the management services on that ESX Can't Deploy VM The VirtualCenter server is unable to decrypt passwords stored in the customization specification Bizarrely caused by the Virtual Centre running out of disk space, free up some space and all will be well. A general system error occurred: Failed to create journal file provider Check ESX disks are not full Customization of the guest operating system 'winLonghornGuest' is not supported in this configuration. Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware Tools versions. Caused by you trying to deploy a guest customised Windows 2008 template, where the OS of the source template is set to Windows 2008(!). Essentially Win2008 is only barely supported in ESX3.5. Setting the source machine to Vista should resolve this
allUploadSign inJoinBooksAudiobooksComicsSheet Music vMotion fails with the error: Migrate_SetFailure: Failed waiting for data. Error bad0004. Busy vMotion fails with the error: Migrate_SetFailure: Failedwaiting for data. Error bad0004. Busy Symptoms Unable to vMotion the virtual machine When you attempt to vMotion the virtual machine, the task begins, but fails at 10% In the vmware.log file of the virtual machine, you see messages similar to: Dec 06 16:41:29.167: vmx| Migrate_SetFailure: Failed waiting for data.Error bad0004. Busy.Dec 06 16:41:29.167: vmx| Migrate: cleaning up migration state.Dec 06 16:41:29.167: vmx| MigrateSetState: Transitioning from state 11to 0.Dec 06 16:41:29.167: vmx| Msg_Post: Error Dec 06 16:41:29.167: vmx|[vob.vmotion.resolve.swap.all.files.failed] vMotion migration[c0a8027c:1291653666313618] failed to find a valid swapfile.Dec 06 16:41:29.167: vmx| [msg.moduletable.powerOnFailed] ModuleMigrate power on failed. Resolution This issue may occur due to the slight difference in the type of swap files in ESX 4.1 and earlier ESXversions. To resolve this issue, you must modify the swap type setting on both the source and target host. To modify the setting: 1. Launch the vSphere Client and log in to your vCenter Server. 2. Select the source ESX host and then click the Configuration tab. 3. Click Software > Advanced Settings > Migrate . 4. Under the Migrate options, locate the line containing Migrate.VMotionResolveSwapType . It willbe set to the default value of 1 . 5. Change the value to 0 . 6. Click OK . 7. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for the destination host VMotion fails after a third-party security tool performs aport scan of the ESX/ESXi hosts Symptoms VMotion fails after a third-party security tool (such as IBM Internet Security Systems) performs aport scan of the ESX or ESXi hosts. You see errors similar to: cpu1:1086) Migrate: 2250 Error with migration listen socket, shuttingdown: I/O error. A general system error occurred; timed out waiting for migration data The vmkernel.log contains messages similar to: May 1 21:20:45 ESXsrvr vmkernel: 11:22:29:39.358 cpu13:1915)World: vm1923: 901: Starting world migSendHelper-1916 with flags 1May 1 21:20:45 ESXsrvr vmkernel: 11:22:29:39.358 cpu13:1915)World: vm1924: 901: Starting world migRecvHelper-1916 with flags 1May 1 21:20:45 ESXsrvr vmkernel: 11:22:29:39.364 cpu1:1086)MigrateNet:vm 1086: 854: Accepted connection from