mohammed moinudheen (10/6/2011)
I added the 20 GB disk but my laptop got very slow
On a host machine with low resources this is common, creating the pre allocated disk file will hammer the host disk. You may even lose connectivity with the vmware server console. Open windows explorer and go to the VMs folder location and hitting refresh you should see the file size climbing. Once its finished creating the file you may then proceed.
mohammed moinudheen (10/6/2011)
But I was not sure if I had done this correctly so I performed above step again.
As i said go to the VMs folder location in explorer and check how many virtual hard disks you see (and their sizes 😉 )
mohammed moinudheen (10/6/2011)
Now, I tried the next step."Power on the VM and and from the host machine login to the Freenas console using the URL http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address assigned previously"
I powered on VM and in the host machine, I typed in http://10.10.10.2/ , but the message is "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". In fact, I had give the same IP address as in "Enter the new LAN IP address" section of article. Not sure, if I am doing these steps correctly.
Please provide your suggestions.
Check the virtual machines NIC is not disabled and also the virtual network it is connected to.
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