vdiskmanager for vmware workstation 12

Question

I created a virtual system using VMWare Workstation 12 Player. I selected the hard disk type to be growable. Now I want to switch to preallocated.

I learnt from google that this can be done using vmware-vdiskmanager.exe . However, it seems that this utility is not bundled with the vmware player. Is there any other way to achieve this?

Some website directs me to the virtual disk development kit. I downloaded one from https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/ . When I use it from the command line, it says: Failed to convert disk: Disk encoding error (0x3ebd) . I doubt that it is because of the mismatch of the version.

Could anybody help on how to solve this? Thank you.

Answer 1

The following Knowledge Base article has an older copy of it. I don't know if it work for you, but at least here you can try to get a standalone version of vmware-vdiskmanager.exe.

EDIT

So this is a more updated version from 2017 of the KB without download. Just including for completeness