
More details and some optional switches can be found in this Super User answer. It, of course, can’t be in running state. expand from the Virtual Media Manager in VirtualBox.
having virtual machine, that uses particular. Even after expansion, not readily available inside the vmdks OS (step 3,4,5) STEPS: 1) convert to '.vdi' first - VBoxManage clonehd v1.vmdk v1.vdi -format vdi 2) expand the size using command-line (Ref: tvials blog for step by step info) OR. Note, that on contrary to some believes and assumptions, this can be performed successfully with is destination size, given in megabytes (for example 28672 corresponds to 28 GB virtual hard disk)Īfter executing above, you get: 0%… 10%… 20%… 30%… 40%… 50%… 60%… 70%… 80%… 90%… 100%Īnd… that’s it. is full path, including virtual hard drive’s name and extension, and. It goes like this (in cmd.exe): cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
But, who in these days, is using fixed disks? :> In fact, this process is amazingly fast and awfully easy.Įasy, if you smart create dynamically allocated disk. There is a lot of unnecessary blah-blah in the Internet about resizing existing VirtualBox disk image without loosing data.