virtual Machine Allocate all disk space now

Question

While creating virtual Machine i forgot to "Tick" - Allocate all disk space now.

I have already setted up machine, and cloned several from the one, and made changes. :(

So i was looking for any option so that i could change my machine (thin disk province) to change to pre-allocated where it will be equal to dedicated size.

using: VMWARE workstation 7.1.4 created disk without allocating disk size now need fixed allocated disk size.

any help would be highly appreciated.

To sum up: how to change growable disk to pre-allocated in vmware workstation.

Answer 1

vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 2 targetDisk.vmdk

as an administrator while using cmd from windows..

lets say, windows, 7 and we have to open cmd as administrator and cd to the particular location where vmware is installed and run this command,

Answer 2

I'm not sure that you can change the disk type to pre-allocated. You can, however, expand a growable-type disk by selecting Utilities->Expand in the Hardware tab of the VM settings. You can only expnad the disk if the VM has no snapshots and the VM is not a linked clone or the parent of a linked clone. In order to make the newly added space available to your VM, you have to use a disk management tool to increase the size of the existing partition to match the new expanded size of the virtual disk.