It’s so frustrating: I would be very happy if you could give me a hand on this !Ĭonfig: I have a windows 7 professional host + Ubuntu 13.10 guest / VirtualBox 4.3.8 I almost completed your method but I stalling at the very last step: extending sda1 to the new allocated space with GParted Thank you for this very instructive “how-to”, the best I found on the subject so far !
Then in the Windows 8.1 cloned machine in Disk Management I extended the volume with the command Extend Volume through the context menu. VBoxManage modifyhd “Windows 8.1.vdi” –resize 15000
Then i was able to resize the VDI with your suggested command: I solved this by starting the VirtualBox GUI as administrator on my Windows 8, and repeated the clone command. VBoxManage.exe: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start.
VBoxManage.exe: error: Code CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE (0x80080005) – Server execution failed (extended info not available) VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object! I encountered another problem at this time: VBoxManage clonehd “Windows 8.1 (Preview).vdi” “Windows 8.1.vdi” –variant Standard (this is my case) I can confirm that before resizing a fixed size VDI it has to be converted to dynamic with the command Thanks for this great Tips!!! I had some problems before managing to expand the VDI, maybe I can help someone.
How to expand a partition to the maximum space available using Windows is described in a comment further up.
An even safer way would be to resize the partition of the Guest OS to 18GB, then expand it to the max possible size after you resized the vdi file. The vdi is a container, changing its size will not change the set partition size of the Guest OS installed within it. Make sure you resize the partition in Windows XP to 20GB, before trying this. VBoxManage modifyhd /home/gustads/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows\ XP/Windows\ XP.vdi –resize 20000 If the 2 underscores from Windows_XP are also space, then do this: VBoxManage modifyhd /home/gustads/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows_XP/Windows_XP.vdi –resize 20000 I can only guess, but it looks like you are using the wrong path:īoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium ‘/home/gustads/VirtualBox_VMs/Windows_XP/Windows_XP.vdi’Ī space in a folder name needs to have a backslash infront of it, it looks like you replaced it by an underscore. …there is noticed to extend disk partition which make a sense, but I had no such idea till I see it in guide. Note however that this only changes the drive capacity you will typically next need to use a partition management tool inside the guest to adjust the main partition to fill the drive. For example, if you originally created a 10G disk which is now full, you can use the –resize 15360 command to change the capacity to 15G (15,360MB) without having to create a new image and copy all data from within a virtual machine. This currently works only for VDI and VHD formats, and only for the dynamically allocated variants, and can only be used to expand (not shrink) the capacity. The –resize x option (where x is the desired new total space in megabytes) allows you to change the capacity of an existing image this adjusts the logical size of a virtual disk without affecting the physical size much. VBoxManage modifyhd – paragraph for -resize parameter: Hi Gyro, I think I found what will need to do inside the hosted system.
Grow a virtual drive, vdi Virtual box disk image Resize VirtualBox Disk Image vdi files to bigger size Should you be using a VirtualBox version older than VirtualBox 4 and are looking for a way to resize a VDI VirtualBox Harddisk file, here are the articles I flipped through but luckily did not have to follow: Increase the size of a. The partition item in the Disk Management pane displays its new size. Follow the prompts to resize the partition and click Finish. In the list, right-click the partition to expand and select Extend Volume.ĥ. Right-click Computer and select Manage.Ĥ. Here is probably the easiest way to grow the partition while Windows (7, Server 2008 R2, or newer) is running on the VirtualBox Guest.ġ.