I needed to resize one of my VMs. This will serve as some better notes than what I see online.

1. Shutdown VM and open the ESXI WEB UI to resize the virtual disk and check a box to force the bios to open on power up.
2. Attach gparted iso to VM then power it up and adjust boot order to boot iso.
3. Once booted, deactivate LVM root volume and resize both extended and logical partitions to max disk size or as desired.

So I had an idea to make creating VMs a little easier for me instead of clicking a handful of buttons and powering up the VM then waiting for it to install. I found a blog post intended for Mac VMs that was inspired from a now deleted site’s blog post by a guy who needed to make a bunch of them quicker so I forked Tamas’s script (the original one I think) and modified it to create Ubuntu VMs.

I did a thing that works but requires a little manual work to do…

because the factory deck just wasn’t loud enough. ;)

and future-proof yourself for version 2.5 when it releases.

and why you need it.

A log about my home cloud adventure

Creating a isolated segment within a bigger LAN

An update in my adventures of being a sysadmin at home.

A thing about my PC Radio. :)