Compressed Time

I've been having trouble with VMWare guests losing clock ticks to the extent that the guest OS clock runs approximately half-speed compared to the host. This is with an Ubuntu Server host OS and a Debian Etch guest OS. I found that adding these settings to /etc/vmware/config:

tools.timeSync = "TRUE"
host.useFastClock = "FALSE"
monitor_control.virtual_rdtsc = "FALSE"

Fixed the timing issues as well as the boundless supply of timing errors showing up on the host in /var/log/messages:

rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.

Thanks to the following for inspiration:

http://jackshck.livejournal.com/117486.html

Finishing my previous thought

After expanding the virtual disk and the partition, simply run resize2fs on the device of interest and the filesystem (EXT2 or EXT3) will be expanded to occupy the full extent of the partition :)

Virtual Disks

Expanding a virtual disk in VMWare is very simple:

vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10GB myDisk.vmdk

Just remember that you still have to expand the partition and the filesystem living on that partition as well. Thanks to http://4sysops.com/archives/expanding-a-virtual-vmware-disk/ for the information!