VMWare Memory Setting

Just want to keep this for I sufferred from the physical memory not enough error for one day.

In Additional memory part the 3rd option : Allow most virtual machine memory to be swapped.

It was the 2nd option : Allow some virtual machine memory to be swapped. And notice that the Reserved memory is 4545 MB.

I got available memory  more than 4GB, VMWare still complaint I do not have enough memory for my 4G VM.

Though this option(3rd option) sacrificed the performance of the guest machine. At least I can have a slow but workable environment.

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Expand existing disk on VM Oracle Linux

VMWare Client Setting

Change the Hard Disk by double click

Utilities > Expand

Change the Maximum disk size to desired size, and Expand

Oracle Linux Setting

Turn on your Oracle Linux, type fdisk /dev/sda
p to see current partion status
n for new partition
give 3 to use next partition number, currently is 2
we use the whole increased space so accept the default cylinder parameter
and w to write the partition table to disk and exit

The result message want us to do a reboot, so do it.


After reboot still logon as root
pvcreate /dev/sda3
to create a physical volume

vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3
to add the physical volume to volume group

vgdisplay
to see current Volume Group

We have 20G free to add volume group
lvextend -L+20G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Congratulation! You’ve sucessfully increase new space and can be used in your Oracle Linux on VMWare

Reference url
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Adding_a_New_Disk_to_an_RHEL_5_Volume_Group_and_Logical_Volume
http://echenh.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-extend-lvm-on-vmware-guest-os.html