There are several helpful articles out there, but I had to use a combination of two of them to get it done. There are two steps:

1. You need to increase the size of the HD from VMware’s viewpoint.
2. And (MAYBE) you will need to use tools of the guest OS (the OS of the image) to repartition things.

I found two resources on line that helped me with this:

• An article posted on the VMware forums: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7471
• A blog post from Novell: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/15344.html

I won’t rewrite what is in these two articles, rather just give you a bit of guidance…The article on the vmware community addresses both of the two required steps. The issue I ran into is that what they described for step 1 wasn’t available for me. Instead, I used the method described on the Novell site to change the size from a VMware perspective and then I used the EASEUS Partition Manager (my guest OS is Windows XP) to repartition in the OS.One more note, depending on the type of hard disk, you may not need to do step 2. After you have run step 1, boot up the image and check the properties of the harddisk in the running image – that’ll tell you if you need to do any partitioning. Also, if I remember correctly, step 1 reported that I needed to partition at the conclusion of it’s work.Of course, MAKE SURE TO BACKUP your image before doing any of this.