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I'm running Windows 10 Home in a VM under VMware Fusion 8.5.3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.2. Machine is MacBook Pro (15", Late 2016).

I shut down the Windows guest, and through its settings, attempted to expand the disk from 60GB to 150GB. I have 300GB+ available on the host.

So far, this is what I've been looking at for about 20 minutes: enter image description here

How much longer should I wait before giving up? And, if I must give up, what can I do to have the best possible chance that my guest vm isn't totally hosed?

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    You patience ought probably to be in direct proportion to the date since your last backup.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Feb 7, 2017 at 7:32
  • What was the result. Same deal here, thing has been hanging for a while.
    – Dan Beaulieu
    Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 16:39
  • Same here ... Hanging up ... But I will wait and let you know.
    – Peter Stegnar
    Commented May 12, 2017 at 7:06

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Solution to this is: just wait.

However, there is a little caveat, if you want that this transition is really successfully and fast you need to temporary turn on Time Machine backup.

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  • What does Time Machine backup have to do with expanding the disk for the VM?
    – Jules
    Commented May 12, 2017 at 8:13
  • It somehow interfere with backup disk operation service and vm ware disk expansion service ... Quite logical to me ...
    – Peter Stegnar
    Commented May 13, 2017 at 9:09
  • As soon as I turned off Time Machine my resize completed instantly.
    – Gregory Higley
    Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 5:53
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Same here with Fusion 8.5.8 and macOS 10.13.2. I expanded a VM from 60 to 80 GB, progress bar stayed there for 30 minutes. Then it was done, all good.

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