On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 07:28 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >Is there a way to do it under VMware? > > > > > I got a little confused reading your email. Are you running VMWare on > Linux or on Windows? If on Linux, you can resize virtual disks with > vmware-vdiskmanager. You will need to shrink the filesystems in the > guestOS first, then shrink the partitions, and then you can use > vdiskmanager to shink the 'drive' itself.
Sorry.. it's like this __________Laptop________________ | | | Gentoo ______________ | | Linux | VMware | | | Main | | | | OS | Gentoo | | | | 2005.0 | | | |_____________| | | | |_______________________________| That should make it clearer. I read about vdiskmanager, but it does not offer that capability. And Vmware _does_ have this capability if you're running Windows as the Guest OS in Vmware. > > >(this laptop(D600+1.4Ghz Centrino) has 512MB > >ram with 200MB reserved for vmware. If I upgraded to 1.2GB RAM and gave > >512 to Vmware, would there be better performance? > > > > Of course, more memory is *always* better. My next system will have 2G > of RAM mostly so I can run 2 VMs with 512MB each. > Can you validate that in real-life?? Since I see my CPU usage is > 80% all the time. Need to know if it's RAM or CPU dependent. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:16:35 up 1 day, 33 min, 6 users, load average: 0.58, 0.62, 0.60 -- [email protected] mailing list
