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wondering how to add more space to an exisiting vitural machine disk on my virtualbox hard drive to make it bigger [8891], Last Updated: Sat May 18, 2024
vmgeek
Wed Dec 31, 1969
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i have a virtual machine in virtuabox and when i created it was only 10G, now i find myself needed more disk space.
i looked up online and this is what i found
if you have version 4 or higer, you can do it from the command line, these command i sent in the DOS terminal:
cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
next i need to get the id for the hard drive i need to expand
VBoxManage list hdds
it will show you something like this:
UUID: 508cd25e-c666-4e54-9639-3f2d32eff210
Parent UUID: base
Format: VMDK
Location: D:\MyVirtualMachines\CentOS_ISPConfig3\ispconfig3_5-1-2012-test-wallpaperama-disk1.vmdk
State: locked write
Type: normal
Usage: CentOS_ISPConfig3 (UUID: c01248b6-f893-4e82-99a0-182c0a2182b7)
so now you do this
VBoxManage modifyhd 508cd25e-c666-4e54-9639-3f2d32eff210 --resize 20080
and thats when i go this error
VBoxManage.exe: error: Resize hard disk operation for this format is not impleme nted yet!anyone know how to increase the size on a vmdk?
but if you have a .vdi disk, you will get a success message like this:
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
fyi:
http://www.webune.com/forums/20130413xhrp.html