OS4X VMware virtualized image - expand HDD

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It may be come from time to time that the internal HDD of OS4Xvirtual is not big enough:

  • either the software installation or the MySQL database becomes too big
  • the internal HDD is used for saving the exchanged data (because this space is not sourced out to another file server)

All steps documented here assume that your virtualization environment supports disk expansion, modern solutions such as these of VMWare or Parallels offer comfortable ways to do such tasks.

Planning

Expanding the HDD, partition and filesystem needs OS4Xvirtual to be shut down, so you are offline for a time period (duration depends on your system performance and reaction speed of the person doing these steps.

Preparation

Make a backup of every disk configured in OS4Xvirtual.

Execution

Shutdown

All disk operation must be done offline, so shut down OS4Xvirtual.

Expand disk

Select the disk in the virtualization environment and expand it to the desired size. (Example screenshot taken from VMWare Fusion under Mac OS X):

VMware FusionScreenSnapz001.png

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