I created a virtual system using VMWare Workstation 12 Player. I selected the hard disk type to be growable. Now I want to switch to preallocated.
I learnt from google that this can be done using vmware-vdiskmanager.exe
. However, it seems that this utility is not bundled with the vmware player. Is there any other way to achieve this?
Some website directs me to the virtual disk development kit. I downloaded one from https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/. When I use it from the command line, it says: Failed to convert disk: Disk encoding error (0x3ebd)
.
I doubt that it is because of the mismatch of the version.
Could anybody help on how to solve this? Thank you.