Hi Everyone,
I have recently upgraded to VMware Workstation 10.0.1 and found a weird thing. When I create a new VM while providing the OS iso image to auto install the OS, it creates a VMDK file of 8GB at the beginning itself. In other cases it only creates a new vm with vmdk file in MBs. in my case i keep on creating many virtual machines and i have to wait for that 8GB file to be created. Is there any way I can a simple HDD without that big size at the beginning and let it grow as required. here are the steps to replicate:
- Select File > New Virtual Machine.
- Select Custom (advanced) and click Next.
- Select Hardware compatibility as Workstation 10.0 an click Next.
- Select Option Installer disc image file and point the iso image file for the OS (i have tested with win7/win8/Server 2008/server 2012) and click Next until you reach to Select a Disk screen of the wizard.
- Select Create a new virtual disk and click Next.
- Enter any size (I opt for 120/80/60 GBs), uncheck Allocate all disk space now and select Store virtual disk as a single file and click Next Next and Finish.
As soon as you click next you will see a dialog containing a progress bar for Creating Disk ... which will actually end up creating a VMDK file of 8GB, see the image below:
Please help me out to come out of this problem and find a way to create a simple virtual machine without allocating that much space in advance.