Resize the new VM to the desired size using VMware’s vmkfstools utility.Īfter logging in, I ran the following command to enable macOS to recognize and use the unallocated space from the VM resizing: Set up a new VM, using copies of uploaded VMDK files for the VM boot disk.ĥ.
Upload the VMDK files to a convenient location on my ESXi serverĤ. Sudo vfuse -i /path/to/autodmg_created_disk_image_here -esxģ. Use vfuse to create VMDK files using a command similar to the one shown below: For these VMs, I was creating VMDK files from AutoDMG-generated disk images, using vfuse to convert the disk image into a VM with ESXi-compatible VMDK disk image files.Ģ. As part of working on a project recently, I ran into an unexpected problem with ESXi-hosted Mac VMs.
