Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:36:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Have you installed vmware-tools into the guest OS? Once you do this, and run them, you can shrink disk files, provided you did not create them as flat files. Er.. No I've not done that yet as Based on what I read, it's not possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:11:11 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: PS : The manual (as in the user manual which pops up in mozilla states it's not supported under Linux Guest OS only windows Guest OS) I use the PDF manual, which you can download from VMware's site. -- Neil Bothwick But there,

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:21:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: 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. Have you installed vmware-tools into the guest OS? Once you do this, and run

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: 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. Well, that sounds more like a software configuration problem. For me, if the virtual machine is idle, the CPU usage of VMWare is 2-3%. But I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 23:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: 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. Well, that sounds more like a software configuration problem. For me, if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:21:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: 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. Have you

[gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I just installed Gentoo-2005.0 into vmware. Had to do it 2 times because the 1st time I used scsi disks and the kernel couldn't find the partition. (I guess this is because I didn't compile the BusLogic Scsi card directly into the kernel and kept it as a module; not to mention me

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
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