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page_title: Common Issues - Disks VMWare Provider
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  HashiCorp develops an official VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation provider
  for Vagrant. This provider allows Vagrant to power VMware based machines and
  take advantage of the improved stability and performance that VMware software
  offers.
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# Common Issues and Troubleshooting

This page lists some common issues people run into with Vagrant and VMWare
as well as solutions for those issues.

## Are my disks attached?

A handy way to figure out what disks are attached (or not attached) to your guest
is to open up the VMWare GUI and open up the guest settings and selecting the
disks options.

## How many disks can I attach?

Vagrant will attempt to attach all disks specified in the Vagrantfile. If more than
four `ide` type disks are specified, only the first four will be attached.

## Applying Vagrant disk configuration changes to guests

Due to how VMware works, you must reload your guest for any disk config changes
to be applied. So if you update your Vagrantfile to update or even remove disks, make
sure to `vagrant reload` your guests for these changes to be applied. Also note, that
Vagrant will not decrease the size of a disk.

## Disk functionality with snapshots

If snapshots exist for a VM, disk functionality will be limited. Vagrant will return
an error for any actions that are limited due to the existence of snapshots. In order
to restore functionality the snapshots must be removed. This can be done using the
[`vagrant snapshot delete`](/docs/cli/snapshot) command. To delete all snapshots
for a VMWare backed VM try `vagrant cap provider delete_all_snapshots --target <target vm name>`.
Note once a snapshot is deleted, it can not be restored.