Changing the Disk Type

A virtual disk can be one of the two types:

• plain . A plain virtual hard disk has a fixed size from the moment of its creation.
• expanding . An expanding virtual hard disk is small initially. Its size grows as you add applications and data to it.

To change the type of a virtual disk in Parallels Server Bare Metal, you can use the pctl set command. Let us assume that the current type of the hdd0 virtual disk in the MyVM virtual machine is plain and you want to change it to expanding. In this case, you can execute the following command:

# pctl set MyVM --device-set hdd0 --type expand

To change the disk type back to plain, run this command:

# pctl set MyVM --device-set hdd0 --type plain