April 1, 20188 yr Just updated to V.6.5.0 and started rebuilding my VMS after an SSD Install. On the VM tab, ive attempted to increase the disk1.img file for one of my VM's from 20G to 30G, but this is failing. No error is displayed, but a blank screen with the following URL displayed: http://tower/VMs?subaction=disk-resize&uuid=fa9bea59-7b21-5e14-7f9b-f5f0566007f9&disk=/mnt/user/VDISKS-CACHE/Windows10/vdisk1.img&oldcap=20G I've tried refreshing the screen in both EDGE and IE. No joy on either. Has anyone else experienced the same and know of a workaround / fix? The disk already has the OS installed. Just need to be larger for an upgrade :-(
April 1, 20188 yr You can increase the vdisk size manually in the mean time by using the instructions in this post by @johnnie.black (Thanks Johnnie!) in the terminal. I had to increase mine last week.
April 1, 20188 yr Author Thanks :-) just what i needed after breakfast. another productive day ahead lol
April 8, 20188 yr On 4/1/2018 at 3:42 PM, johnnie.black said: It's a known issue, fixed on the latest v6.5.1-rc Thanks for confirming that.
May 21, 20188 yr I am trying to figure this out as well. The post that @GHunter linked to is not showing up. I am 6.5.2
May 21, 20188 yr If you're running unRAID v6.5.2, then the resize function will work in the GUI. Here is the command to do it if you want to do it via the command line: fallocate -l 100G "/mnt/user/Windows 10/vdisk1.img" Change the 100G to the size you need and the path to your vdisk image. Note that you should only be increasing the size as decreasing it can cause problems. Edited May 21, 20188 yr by GHunter
May 21, 20188 yr I am trying to figure this out as well. The post that @GHunter linked to is not showing up. I am 6.5.2 12 minutes ago, GHunter said: If you're running unRAID v6.5.2, then the resize function will work in the GUI. Here is the command to do it if you want to do it via the command line: fallocate -l 100G "/mnt/user/Windows 10/vdisk1.img" Change the 100G to the size you need and the path to your vdisk image. Note that you should only be increasing the size as decreasing it can cause problems. I am not seeing the resize function in the gui
May 21, 20188 yr Stop the VM, then left click on the VM name (not the icon). Then you'll see your disk devices listed. In the capacity column, the size can be clicked on and edited.
May 21, 20188 yr Is there an easy way of decreasing an .img? Ive allocated 33g from 200, and i would like to make it to 60GB or something.
May 21, 20188 yr If it's a Windows VM, you can have it so that it always takes up the exact space required instead of continually growing until it hits the max. https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/51703-vm-faq/?tab=comments#comment-557606
May 21, 20188 yr 8 minutes ago, Squid said: If it's a Windows VM, you can have it so that it always takes up the exact space required instead of continually growing until it hits the max. https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/51703-vm-faq/?tab=comments#comment-557606 Nowadays it is a little easier unRAID 6.4.1 and later supports "SCSI" as disk driver, selecting this driver type creates the necessary XML entries as explained in your link, it requires adding of discard='unmap' though as the only manual change.
May 21, 20188 yr 2 minutes ago, bonienl said: Nowadays it is a little easier unRAID 6.4.1 and later supports "SCSI" as disk driver, selecting this driver type creates the necessary XML entries as explained in your link, it requires adding of discard='unmap' though as the only manual change. I know. Johnnie hasn't updated the entry. But it still would work.
May 23, 20188 yr @GHunter thank you.. Clicking on it worked for me. I am trying to figure this out as well. The post that @GHunter linked to is not showing up. I am 6.5.2 On 5/21/2018 at 5:51 AM, GHunter said: If you're running unRAID v6.5.2, then the resize function will work in the GUI. Here is the command to do it if you want to do it via the command line: fallocate -l 100G "/mnt/user/Windows 10/vdisk1.img" Change the 100G to the size you need and the path to your vdisk image. Note that you should only be increasing the size as decreasing it can cause problems. I am not seeing the resize function in the gui
December 28, 20187 yr I've both converted my main vdisk1.img to SCSI and grown it from 50G to 100G. Still boots. (yay!) Thing is, the 50.00 GB Unallocated is separated from my C: partition by an 843MB OEM partition. If this was a physical PC, I'd boot into GParted and wail away at it. It's not. Any suggestions for shuffling Windows partitions within an .img? I'm not sure what documentation would be helpful, but I'm happy to provide anything that might help.
December 28, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, hominid said: Thing is, the 50.00 GB Unallocated is separated from my 😄 partition by an 843MB OEM partition. If this was a physical PC, I'd boot into GParted and wail away at it. It's not. Any suggestions for shuffling Windows partitions within an .img? Sure, boot into GParted and have at it. No difference between a VM and a physical disk for this purpose.
December 30, 20187 yr On 12/28/2018 at 3:59 PM, jonathanm said: Sure, boot into GParted and have at it. No difference between a VM and a physical disk for this purpose. Well, I'm not entirely sure how to go about doing that. Didn't find anything concrete on these forums about booting from USB (on a USB controller that was passed through to the VM) aside from a brief mention of booting from a WindowsToGo USB with a GPT partition. Also, adding the gparted live .iso file as the OS install ISO copied it to the VM's directory but it didn't prioritize it over Windows 10 in the boot sequence. Any other suggestions to get me on the right path?
December 30, 20187 yr You should be able to delete the small partition using diskpart (command line in windows)
December 30, 20187 yr 9 hours ago, hominid said: adding the gparted live .iso file as the OS install ISO copied it to the VM's directory but it didn't prioritize it over Windows 10 in the boot sequence. You may have to edit the boot priority in the XML view, I don't know if they've ever fixed the boot priority selection in the basic view.
April 6, 20197 yr I was able to clear off some files and generally avoided the issue for a few months, but just ran into the problem again. I'm sure that I could have found a way to configure booting from a specified flash drive, but found a way to do it from within the Windows VM: https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/delete-oem-partition.html Reporting back in case it might help anyone finding this in the future.
July 5, 20206 yr On 4/6/2019 at 9:12 PM, hominid said: I was able to clear off some files and generally avoided the issue for a few months, but just ran into the problem again. I'm sure that I could have found a way to configure booting from a specified flash drive, but found a way to do it from within the Windows VM: https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/delete-oem-partition.html Reporting back in case it might help anyone finding this in the future. Thank you so much, I'm very glad you returned and did this! It helped me out
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