{"id":378,"date":"2011-12-07T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turtlellc.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-12-07T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:58:49","slug":"increasing-disk-size-virtualbox-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/increasing-disk-size-virtualbox-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Disk Size for a VirtualBox VM"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are 2 possible ways I know of to increase the size of a virtual drive when using VirtualBox:<\/p>\n

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  1. VBoxManage<\/strong><\/li>\n
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    1. Using Windows Explorer go to C:Users<your name>VirtualBox VMs<VM Name><\/li>\n
    2. Make a backup of your existing VirtualBox disk file ( <disk name>.vdi )<\/li>\n
    3. Open a command prompt as administrator<\/li>\n
    4. cd to C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox<\/li>\n
    5. vboxmanage modifyhd “C:Users<your name>VirtualBox VMs<VM Name><disk name>.vdi” –resize 20000<\/li>\n
    6. This will resize it to 20gb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    7. CloneVDI Tool<\/strong><\/li>\n
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      1. Download CloneVDI from this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n
      2. Unzip it<\/li>\n
      3. Run CloneVDI.exe as administrator<\/li>\n
      4. Enter the source and destination<\/li>\n
      5. Check:<\/li>\n
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        1. Increase virtual drive size to<\/li>\n
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          1. Enter the new size you would like<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          2. Increase partition size<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          3. Click Proceed button<\/li>\n
          4. After the clone completes<\/li>\n
          5. Close CloneVDI Tool<\/li>\n
          6. Rename your old .vdi file to <orig filename>.vdi_old<\/li>\n
          7. Rename the cloned .vdi from Clone of <filename>.vdi to <filename>.vdi<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            There are 2 possible ways I know of to increase the size of a virtual drive when using VirtualBox: VBoxManage Using Windows Explorer go to C:Users<your name>VirtualBox VMs<VM Name> Make a backup of your existing VirtualBox disk file ( <disk name>.vdi ) Open a command prompt as administrator cd to C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox vboxmanage modifyhd “C:Users<your … <\/p>\n

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