scapesjnr.blogg.se - Oracle virtualbox increase disk size

Now "move" it to also include all the unallocated space (it won't let you move the left-most side yet) and click ok. In this case right click on the dashed cyan line surrounding the swap partition, and choose move/resize. If that doesn't work (it doesn't let you resize it-the left arrow doesn't work) then your swap partition might be contained in a secondary partition. (if you have a swap partition) follow the instructions on the blog post to "move it to the right".

Download and boot to a Gparted "live CD" ISO (necessary because you can't adjust the partitions on a drive that you have mounted-for instance your boot drive).

"c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyhd c:\path\to\ubuntu_big.vdi -resize 30000

To modify the size of your VDI to 25GB execute the following command:Ĭ:\path\of\your\vdifile\"c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyhd yourvdifilename.vdi -resize 25000Ġ%.10%.20%.30%.40%.50%.60%.70%.80%.90%.There is a very good blog entry on this at.

VirtualBox comes with an utility called VBoxManage.exe which is usually located at "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe".

Make a copy of you VDI, you can just ctrl+c, ctrl+v.

But, all things went more than great and I ended up using it as my "prod" environment for now, this is were the guest started to complain about the limited space left, I did a quick search in Google and I got the following: I wanted to use it "just to test stuff" and I knew I would probably make a mess and that VM won´t last much. I usually set a big amount of space for my VMs, but this time I created an Ubuntu VM with just 15GB of dynamic allocated space.