Extend Ubuntu VM hard disk space/size

 Hi all,

Today I will explain about the process to extend and existing disk space in Ubuntu VM.

Environment

1. VMWare
2. Ubuntu

Context

Increase hard disk space more than initially configured for the Ubuntu VM.

Reason

VM hard disk might running out of space.

Procedure

• Make sure we have shutdown the Ubuntu VM
• Increase the hard disk size
• Make sure it's in the allowed range
• 
• Start the VM
• Open the Disks application in Ubuntu
• 
• In below example we are extending it by additional 3GB
• Select the Extended Partition block
• Click Settings (Gear) icon
• Choose Resize option
• 
• Use the increment (+) icon or scroll bar to increase the partition size
• Click on Resize button
• Enter credentials when prompted
• By now, the extended partition will be increased
• Time to select the file system, where exactly our data is getting stored
• We will repeat the process of resizing like earlier
• Using scrollbar increase the disk size
• 
• Click on the Resize button
• 
• The harddisk size is been reflected.

Hurray !! You have increased your hard disk size to store more data on the Ubuntu VM.

The same process can be used for normal Ubuntu OS also.

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Convert Physical/Virtual Machine to vSphere ESX using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

Hi all,

Objective

Moving/converting locally installed VMware Virtual Machine to vSphere ESX

Procedure

Download VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

Install it on your own windows machine (or) client/server mode

Once the installation completed, run the coverter

Click on "Convert machine"

Select the VM type and select .vmx file

Enter your destination vSphere server/ip address, username and password

Click on "Next"

You can change the VM configuration before coverting

Click on Next

Now it will start converting your VM and copy the VM to your vSphere

On vSphere, like normal vSphere client, you can start your VM and enjoy the configured/already using VM on vSphere.

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Running SLAX Linux on VMWare

Hi all,
Today I come across running SLAX in VMWare. I got some information after googling and I modified accordingly to install in VMWare.

Please follow this procedure to install SLAX on VMWare

1. Open VMWare Workstation
2. Create New Workstation by selecting File->New (or) Just Clicking on New Virtual Machine icon
3. Click Other Operating System
4. Don't get panic even it shows, operating system not detected
5. Select appropriate options and start the virtual machine
6. Select the Graphical Mode KDE option for booting
7. It will display KDE Environment
8. Open konsole/command prompt and execute the following commands
9. Create a partition (type 83 Linux), # cfdisk
10. Select New->Primary for disk creation.
11. Select Type->83(Linux) for file system
12. Select Bootable Flag
13. Select Write to confirm the settings

14. By now, we have one disk created for installing the SLAX Operating System
15. # mke2fs /dev/hda1
     Note: Here /dev/hda1 because we have selected drive type as IDE at SLAX VMWare installation. If we select SCSI, it will show /dev/sda1
16. # mkdir /mnt/hda1
17. # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
18. # cp -rf /mnt/live/mnt/hdc/* /mnt/hda1/ -- Copying CDROM Contents
      Note: /mnt/live/mnt/hdc is the cdrom which detected in OS. Path may change, when you trying. So, please see on which location the cdrom is mounted and specify that path to copy the contents.
19. # cd /mnt/hda1/boot
20. # sh liloinst.sh
21. When script is running, it will ask us to press ENTER; Please do it.
22. Now we have successfully installed the SLAX on VMWare
23. Please reboot the OS just by entering # init 6

24. Username: root, Password: toor
25. Enter startx to view the KDE environment

References:
1. http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=26156&anchorid=75940#postid75940