I'm receiving this error message when I start up my VMWare Player. I think I have enough free space - would appreciate help as important files are on this machine!
The file system upon which '/home/tacchino/vmware/Windows 10 x64' resides is critically low on free space. Allowing this virtual machine to continue may cause it to fail unexpectedly. VMware Player has paused this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full. To continue, free an additional 12.4 GB of disk space.
1 Answer
The partition that your virtual machine is stored in /dev/nvme0n1p2 has 52GB of free space left. The VMDK file storing your VM is currently 69GB, but can grow by another 70GB. It must be assumed that this is a sparse disk image, and that it will enlarge itself as required. It will however currently grow past the physical size that you have available for it.
Potential solutions would include:
Adding disk space to your physical machine - this would involve adding another SSD or HDD to your machine to allow for a larger VM to be run
Reducing the maximum size that the VM disk is allowed to consume. As a Windows device, you would need to first shrink the partition within Windows, and then use VMWare tools to shrink the disk image file. You may require a temporary disk, such as a USB disk, to allow for additional storage while shrinking the VMDK file.
On the perceived speed of the disk: Neither the ext4 file system or the SSD work well when close to full.
