[maemo-developers] Request for Enhancements on maemo development VM image

[From: Jason Edgecombe]

Hi there,

I request that future versions of the maemo VMware image be resized to 
at least 15GB and preferably 20GB. I say this because I just did that 
for my VM.

Follow these steps to grow the VM:
1. edit the vmdl file header to change the adapter type form"(null)" to 
"ide" and add null chacters to end of the test section to keep the rest 
of the file ok. (I did this be dd'ing out a 1024 byte section to edit 
and then reinserting it with conv=notrunc)
2.use vmware-vdisk-manager from the free (as in beer) VMware server to 
grow the disk to the desired size.
3. boot the VM from a CD or ISO of a liveCD with parted (I used puppy linux)
4. use gnu parted or something else to resize the VM partitions

BTW, using vdiskmanager to switch to one of the 2Gb split disk types 
would be good as well. It makes things convenient when your doing things 
on a FAT32-formatted USB drive. using the pre-allocated disk type is 
supposed to be faster, but I'm not concerned about that.  I do know that 
pre-allocated images compress with Winzip to be smaller than their 
uncompressed sparse counterparts. Just be sure to use the multi-volume 
option.

be sure to make a backup copy of the VM before attempting this.

Sincerely,
Jason