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Naive
Asked: 2014-05-03 00:51:04 +0800 CST

vmware-vdiskmanager is not present in my system

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and trying to expand size allocated to Linux virtual machine, but I'm not able to find vmware-vdiskmanager or any package that installs vmware-vdiskmanager. Can anyone please tell me how to install vmware-vdiskmanager or link to download it...?

12.04

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  1. Best Answer

    As far I as know vmware-vdiskmanager is a utility that comes bundled with VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation.

    I found a 32bits version 1023856-vdiskmanager-linux.7.0.1.zip available for download here on kb.vmware.com (direct link from the Attachments section).

    Source

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  2. You can use the 32bit version available for download here on kb.vmware.com from the Attachments section.

    • Download and unzip the 1023856-vdiskmanager-linux-7.0.1.zip file
    • Expand the compressed file, and rename it to vmware-vdiskmanager
    • Copy the vmware-vdiskmanager file to /usr/bin/
    • give it executable rights

    this will automate the installation:

    cd /tmp/
wget http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewAttachment.do?attachID=1023856-vdiskmanager-linux.7.0.1.zip&documentID=1023856
unp 1023856-vdiskmanager-linux-7.0.1.zip
mv 1023856-vmware-vdiskmanager-linux.7.0.1 /usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager
chmod +x /usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager

    To use it run for example compress a vm with this command:

    /usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager -k ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/<virtual disk.vmdk>
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  3. The disk manager download suggested by Sylvain is dependent on OpenSSL. If you don't have it installed you will get an error message as follows:

    SSLLoadSharedLibrary: Failed to load library libeay32.dll

    OpenSSL is available from here: http://www.openssl.org/community/binaries.html

    Downloading and installing OpenSSL resolves this issue.

    Note: I have realised that the OpenSSL dlls are present in the VMware Player installation directory. If the tool is copied into the VMware player directory and executed from there the installation of OpenSSL is unnecessary.

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  4. Needed the same for an ubuntu 18.04 workstation with vmware-player installed (not part of the bundle).

    Downloaded the VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit) v7.0 from here: https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/7.0/vddk (needed my vmware account credentials to do so.)

    tar -xzvf VMware-vix-disklib-7.0.0-15832853.x86_64.tar.gz ./vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/bin64/vmware-vdiskmanager

    My vmware-player was installed in /usr/lib/vmware/, so I suggest you untar the download in /usr/lib/ which will result in the necessary parts being at /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib

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