Click the partition button in DU and select Partition, not Add VolumeĤ. Note: You may need to edit the virtual machine's vmx file eg with WordPad, to add the line bios.bootDelay = "3000" -> allows the virtual machine enough time to register key presses during boot up), then open DU in this Recovery Environment.ģ. Choose to boot to it (F2 at the VMware logo to access VMware BIOS boot selection, select to boot from CD.
Attach full macOS installer ISO as a virtual CD/DVD-ROM to the VM. Expand vmdk disk by clicking Guest Settings/Hardware/Hard Disk (SATA), click Expand buttonĢ. On Windows OS I use EASEUS, AOMEI and many other free disk/partition tools, but most or all of these do not support or work on macOS.Ģ) IF not, what are the correct Terminal commands to up the main (and only) partition size to use the whole amount available, without losing data or apps installed?Įxample expanding vmdk eg from 100GB to 120GB:ġ. I have been reading on this issue with resizing the VM disks to use the larger capacity (increased in VMware Guest OS Settings), and most sources I found say this is work in progress and macOS (VMs too) may not allow for partition resize via the GUI for that (yet).Īnd that only Terminal can be used to resize as desired via the command line.ġ) Is there an easy way to resize my main macOS partitions on the several VMs via GUI, such as via the built-in tools OR maybe I third-party tool? So, I tried to use Disk Utility to increase the size of the main (and only) partition to something larger, such as from 84 GBs to 120 GBs/etc but could not do it, it just showed a useless pie chart you cannot resize up (only down). I do not want to add a 2nd disk, just up the size of main disk/partition. The VMs work fine as far as other operations go, but on some of these, I have a larger disk size of 120 GBs and on some it is 90 GB or less, so I am running low on disk space due to Xcode and Simulators installed. On the 2 others, I have VMware Workstation 15.1.0 on the laptop (16 GBs of RAM), and 15.0.3 on the other PC (32 GBs of RAM) + latest macOS Unlocker and have multiple macOS Guests, ranging from 10.9 Mavericks up to latest 10.14.5 Mojave.
Using Windows 10 Host OS - 64-bit, on 3 separate PCs (1 is offline right now, Windows issues unrelated to VMware or VMs). I have this macOS VM disks issue for a while now, and as I did not find an (easy) way out I am finally asking here.