
Extend the partition from the guest Operating System.

Increase the disk size from the VMware settings (The VMDK file size will be increased, make sure you have enough space on the physical disk partition).There are two major steps involved in extending the virtual machine hard disk on the VMware workstation.

The below screenshots were taken from the older version, but it is applicable for the all current version of the VMware workstation and VM Player. Easy Steps to Expand Disk Space in VMware Workstation Adding the new disk may not be helpful if you want to extend a partition inside the working virtual machine. We can either expand the existing virtual hard disk or add another new virtual hard disk to VM. Usually, after creating a virtual machine with a particular disk size, VM would run out of disk space for some reason. It doesn’t matter which host Operating system you have such as Windows, Linux or macOS, if you have the latest VMware product you can follow the guide.

VMware workstation supports expanding the disk space for existing virtual machines easily.
