[quote=“Mentaloid, post: 37412, member: 4362”]Last I used VMware to shrink a disk, it was done via a VMware supplied tool called “vmware tools” for a windows guest. This is a guest OS application that is installed from VMware from a CD ISO image (ESXi, accessed by selecting “install vmware tools” in the host manager).

As this is a program/tool supplied by VMware, and is Host dependant, as well using private (and hidden) vmware API’s, I am quite certain that there is no linux derivative of said tool. If you have access to the VMDK file from a linux system you can manage to squeeze vcli [url]https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/[/url] onto it, I would suggest thinking about creating a new (smaller) VMDK file, and then cloning to the new VMDK. Of course this requires a fair amount of room itself (as does the hot shrink that VMware supplies for windows guests)

TL;DR; Windows guests, you need to use vmware tools. Linux guests, you need to do a lot of research, and get some 3rd party tools and install VMware tools (which likely won’t work on macos) to possibly even try with enough spare disk space to create a second copy of the VMDK.[/quote]

they do have a copy of the VMWare tools that fusion keeps updated. And it does allow folder sharing and a host of other functions but the resize doesn’t seem to work for me. I dunno maybe i’m wasting my time but I think i’ll figure out this dilemma long before I et a bigger SSD

Sysprep is pulling the driver package on generalize. So I am still screwed.

ok thanks

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21139, member: 7271”]r1059 released to test this new functionality out. Please test and play. You can change the setting under:

FOG Configuration->FOG Settings->FOG PXE Settings->FOG_PIGZ_COMP

Hopefully you’ll enjoy it. The values are between 0 and 9. 0 being the fastest/worst compression rating and 9 being the slowest/best compression rating.[/quote]

damn your quick. Ask you shall receive 🙂 I will have to wait to get home to my Desktop of DOOM… i can’t even get my mac to mount the images folder when i try to use the private internal network in Fusion

I seem to be suffering from the same problem, although my deployment of FOG is entirely new so I am unable to do much more than register hosts and initiate memtests from the PXE menu.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 14605, member: 18”]You may have to configure multicast groups/preferences in the switch. We use DLINK DGS-3120 POE series switches, and they had some advanced settings for making Multicast work for some other applications.

A few things to note about multicast. They only go as fast as the slowest client, and I believe use a lot more memory on the server as the image is decompressed on the server before being sent out to all the clients.[/quote]

all our machines are brand new Dell latitude 3330’s with Identical spec’s and all imaged perfectly with unicast. I am not sure our switches truly support multicast. Despite Netgear claiming they do.

Yes, our storage node is set to allow 15 clients as well as the other two places specified, but it still doesn’t work in our setup. It’s not a huge deal for us though, as our images are fairly small and everything is gig-e.

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 14260, member: 3582”]That’s insane!!! Well I’m glad you found it. We are still running office 2007, and I am pretty sure the SMART boards we use are the 400 model, but don’t quote me on that :)[/quote]

We Run 620’s pretty much everywhere… BUt i don’t think the software is any different between models… I am not sure what caused it… but for all but one of our sites its an unfixable problem…

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 23193, member: 7271”]You’re welcome.

All is working then I presume?[/quote]

I have succesfull created an image of a Windows 7 machine. I have not tried to deploy the image back to the Windows 7 machine, but I assume that this is going to work, otherwise I let it know. 🙂