Specifications

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Shrinking Virtual Disks with VMware Tools
The Shrink tab gives you access to the controls you need if you wish to reclaim unused
space in a virtual disk.
To shrink virtual disks, you should run VMware Tools as the root user (su -). This way,
you ensure the whole virtual disk is shrunk. Otherwise, if you shrink the virtual disk as a
non-root user, you cannot prepare to shrink the parts of the virtual disk that require
root-level permissions.
For more information about shrinking virtual disks, see Defragmenting and Shrinking
Virtual Disks on page 168.
Configuring VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine
This section shows the options available in a NetWare 6.5, 6.0 or 5.1 guest. Since there
is no graphical user interface for NetWare 4.2, there is no VMware Tools control panel
as there is for newer NetWare guests. You can configure certain virtual machine
options such as time synchronization, CPU idling and device configuration with
VMware Tools in a NetWare 4.2 guest in the system console. For more information, see
Configuring VMware Tools for NetWare Guests in the System Console on page 87.
Configuring VMware Tools in a NetWare 6.5, 6.0 or NetWare 5.1 Guest
To open the VMware Tools control panel, choose Novell > Settings > VMware Tools
for NetWare.