Meatball's Guide to .NET » virtual PC http://rogerpence.com/blog A dogma-free guide to making real-world sense of .NET Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:15:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Expand virtual PC disk space—painlessly http://rogerpence.com/blog/index.php/archives/12 http://rogerpence.com/blog/index.php/archives/12#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:03:04 +0000 rp http://rogerpence.com/blog/?p=12 I am rapidly becoming quite addicted to the virtues of using virtual PCs. It’s great having lots of virtual images with which to test and develop. Need to test IE 7 but you’re running IE 8? Make an IE 7 testing image!

However I just bumped into a problem with virtual image: out of the box, it’s a hassle to add to an image’s available disk space. However, vmToolkit has a free utility called VHD Resizer that makes this a painless process.

I was going to write a post about how to use VHD Resizer, but Pieter Mol has beaten me to it. His instructions are superb. With VHD Resizer and Pieter’s great help, resizing a virtual partition is now really very simple.

Note that I used VHD Resizer with Windows XP. Check with vmToolkit as to the latest news about Vista compatibility.

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