Single disk configuration for VMware

[thasmo]

Noticed that the default VMware configuration uses multiple disks á 2 GB. Would it be an option to use a single disk configuration using disk type 0?

0 – create a growable virtual disk contained in a single file (monolithic sparse).

Packer docs mention it here.

[rickard-von-essen]

@thasmo Could you elaborate why this is better than the current setup.

[thasmo]

I'm far from being an expert on this, but it depends on the use case I guess. Using multiple files enables the use of disks on filesystems like FAT32, which has a filesize limit of 2 (or 4?) GB, on the other side when having lots of data, you also get lots of files, which could probably be more difficult to handle in certain situations. There are some articles related to this on the net, like this and this etc. I just had the feeling that it made more sense for the Bento project to use a single disk file.

[juliandunn]

I don't think there's a significant benefit to this, and in this day and age, if you're still running FAT32 and this is a problem... well I'm very sorry for you 😁