road hazard Posted March 6, 2016 Share #1 Posted March 6, 2016 Trying to get XPEnology up and running in VMWare 12 (just to test out and play around with) but no matter what type of virtual drive(s) I create in VMWare (IDE, SCSI, SATA).... I keep getting an "error 35, can't format disks" message when I select the PAT file in the assistant. Any ideas? PS The links to the Synology Assistant appears to be broken on all the xpenology.* sites. I had to grab the SA from Synology's web site. And since I'm a n00b and all, it's quite possible I'm doing something really dumb over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billat29 Posted March 7, 2016 Share #2 Posted March 7, 2016 I did have that problem once and it was because the virtual disks I was trying to install DSM on were too small. What size have you used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbv3000 Posted March 7, 2016 Share #3 Posted March 7, 2016 increasing the disk size should help as billat29 says. Make it double or more allocated VRAM at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
road hazard Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share #4 Posted March 7, 2016 I did have that problem once and it was because the virtual disks I was trying to install DSM on were too small.What size have you used? Tried a size of 1 gig then 2 ......same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
road hazard Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share #5 Posted March 7, 2016 increasing the disk size should help as billat29 says. Make it double or more allocated VRAM at least Hmmmm, when creating the virtual disks, I did NOT pick the option to 'allocate the drive space now' (or whatever that option is called). Think that is what tripped me up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billat29 Posted March 7, 2016 Share #6 Posted March 7, 2016 Try 20Gb. If you are short of real disk space and you keep the option not to allocate the disk space "now" then it will only allocate enough for the install. I tend to create the disk as a single file - but I have no idea whether that makes any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
road hazard Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share #7 Posted March 8, 2016 Try 20Gb. If you are short of real disk space and you keep the option not to allocate the disk space "now" then it will only allocate enough for the install.I tend to create the disk as a single file - but I have no idea whether that makes any difference. Did the 20 gigs and it worked! Thanks! The GUI that Synology uses is pretty damn slick. BUT, spending $600 on the 5 bay DS1515 I was looking at is insane. XPEnology for me!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNSC-117 Posted March 10, 2016 Share #8 Posted March 10, 2016 Same thing happened to me me i believe it has to be larger than 8gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imaleecher Posted March 10, 2016 Share #9 Posted March 10, 2016 Try 20Gb. If you are short of real disk space and you keep the option not to allocate the disk space "now" then it will only allocate enough for the install.I tend to create the disk as a single file - but I have no idea whether that makes any difference. Even if you changed the disk type to dynamic (vs fixed), during the initial setup/installation, it'll format the drives and expand to the max size allotted so you won't save any hdd storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billat29 Posted March 10, 2016 Share #10 Posted March 10, 2016 Player behaves as I described. My test system has a 100Gb disk occupying 10.2Gb of disk space. I suspect workstation is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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