resize the virtualbox vdi, while the file is on the external hard drive

[clsa]

directory of my vdi file

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Hello, I want to increase the size of the windows10 vm, and I have done that before. However, a couple days ago, I moved my windows10 vm to an external hard drive. And when I try to increase the size this time, I got following errors.

LuWeichendeMacBook-Air:~ luweichen$ VBoxManage modifyhd --resize 100000 ~/Volumes/G-DRIVE\ mobile\ USB/VirtualBox\ VMs/win\ 10/win\ 10.vdi
VBoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium '/Users/luweichen/Volumes/G-DRIVE mobile USB/VirtualBox VMs/win 10/win 10.vdi' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 179 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

Can someone help me plz. Thx

[mpack]

Please post a screenshot of your hosts file browser window opened to that folder. Or, listing the folder in a terminal window would be just as good.

I.e. please prove that the error message is wrong, and that file really is at that location.

[socratis]

I'll focus on the part of the command line that's wrong:

VBoxManage modifyhd --resize 100000 ~/Volumes/G-DRIVE...

Do you see that tilde (~) in front of the "/Volumes/..."? That shouldn't be there. That tilde translates to "your home directory". And your VDI is not in your home directory, it's in the "G-DRIVE...". i.e. "/Volumes/G-DRIVE...".

[clsa]

That works. Thx a lot

[BobOra]

I'm getting an error in trying to resize a Windows 10 guest .vdi under macOS 10.12.6. I've dragged the .vdi file into Terminal, and surrounded it with quotes. I usually have success with this form of an escaped path name, but wanted to check if that is the correct method. Secondly, the first recipe I used (from other parts of the forums) places the full path after "modifyhd"; however in this thread, it appears the path is at the end. I tried it at the end as well, but this did not change the results.

$ VBoxManage modifyhd "/Users/bob/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit.vdi" --resize 35000

VBoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium '/Users/bob/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit.vdi' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 179 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

thanks

Bob

[BobOra]

I just tried running the command without quotes surrounding the path, and it worked.

Bob

[mpack]

I just tried running the command without quotes surrounding the path, and it worked.

I'm no expert on OS X command line, but looking at the syntax you were using I would expect that you should either "escape" the spaces as you were doing, or you surround the string in quotes. Not both.

[BobOra]

I believe you are correct. It has been a long while, and I'd forgotten the usage.