How to expand vmware disk space?

You can expand vmware disk space in already installed VM Workstation by using a utility called vmware-vdiskmanager. This utility can be found in your VMWare Workstation installation directory i.e C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation.

Suppose if you want to increase your disk space from 8GB to 15 GB, then run this command as given below

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 15Gb "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmdk"

Here the last argument needs to be replaced with your own .vmdk file for which you need to increase it's size.

If every thing goes well the output from above command will be
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O/P:
Using log file C:\DOCUME~1\guruss1\LOCALS~1\Temp\vmware-guruss1\vdiskmanager.log
Grow: 100% done.
The old geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 1044/255/63
The new geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 1958/255/63
Disk expansion completed successfully.

WARNING: If the virtual disk is partitioned, you must use a third-party
utility in the virtual machine to expand the size of the
partitions. For more information, see:
http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1647

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Make sure you logged out from your workstation when you execute this command.

For more help run "vmware-vdiskmanager -help"