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

[From: Frank Banul]

Hi,

Another option is to just add another disk of whatever size you want.
There are many blank images available on the net all ready. I added a
10G.vdk like so (assuming you are using scsi adapters, should be
adaptable to ide):
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "10G.vmdk"

Then I mounted that disk, moved some things over to it and carried on.

Frank


On Feb 17, 2008 2:20 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason at rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
> 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
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