Additional disks with vmware-vmx

[andr...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

I'd like to add hard disks to the machine I'm building with vmware-vmx.

What is the best way to achieve that?

Thanks,

Andrew

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello.

vmware-vmx doesn't have that option.

but, you can open the VM using VMWARE and add the disk manually.

will be a one time thing, and you get the new template. for the disk you require.

alvaro

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[andr...@gmail.com]

Thank you for that.

This is what I ended up with:

"Copying template $source..." | Write-Host

Copy-Item -Path "$source" -Destination "." -recurse

# $base has vmx template folder name
Move-Item $base $stage

"Creating addition virtual disk..." | Write-Host

. "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -c "$stage\disk2.vmdk" -t 1 -s 60GB -a lsilogic

$spec = "scsi1.present = `"TRUE`"

scsi1.virtualdev = `"lsisas1068`"

scsi1:0.filename = `"disk2.vmdk`"

scsi1:0.present = `"TRUE`""

#This is my vmx name
$spec | Add-Content "$stage\packer-windows-2012-base.vmx"

After that I can run packer and in the powershell provisioner execute this script:

Get-Disk |

Where partitionstyle -eq 'raw' |

Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle MBR -PassThru |

New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize |

Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "disk2" -Confirm:$false

This seems to do the trick.

Andrew

On Monday, 14 August 2017 20:40:26 UTC+12, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

Hello.

vmware-vmx doesn't have that option.

but, you can open the VM using VMWARE and add the disk manually.

will be a one time thing, and you get the new template. for the disk you require.

alvaro

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:38 AM, <andr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I'd like to add hard disks to the machine I'm building with vmware-vmx.

What is the best way to achieve that?

Thanks,

Andrew

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