.vdi I don't want anymore

[causeitsme]

I installed virtualbox and made a new virtual machine as XP and it's size as 5.19 gigs virtual and 4.12 actual (XP.vdi). I then installed XP there and all was well until I tried to install anti-virus and I got a error disk full message. I fiddled around and don't know what I did exactly as this was several months ago. But, the result was I wound up with another .vdi that's 14 gigs virtual size and 4.17 actual size (NewHardDisk1.vdi). This is the one that xp is on.

I would like to get rid of the XP.vdi one so I can recover the 4.12 gigs.

I have tried to delete the smaller .vdi (XP.vdi) but then xp won't boot up and I get an error that the NewHardDisk1.vdi needs XP.vdi.

Here are some screenshots:



How can I do this?

[causeitsme]

Sorry I left this screenshot out, couldn't find an edit button for original post.

Screenshot showing second .vdi details

[vbox4me2]

Forum FAQ
Making a VDI larger.
Cloning a VDI.
Cloning to enlarge a VDI.

[causeitsme]

Yeah, I had read through most of what was in those links and through the manual, still, I don't get it.

My Snapshots:

+snapshot1 ##resides at /home/username/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/XP.vdi (##
+snapshot2 ##resides at /home/username/.VirtuaBox/HardDisks/NewHardDisk1.vdi
Current State

I can discard snapshot2 but I still have a XP.vdi and NewHardDisk1.vdi
When I try to discard snapshot1 I get a box like the following

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VIrtualBox - Error

Failed to discard the snapshot Snapshot 1 of the virtual machine XP.

Hard disk '/home/kimberly/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/XP.vdi' has more than one child hard disk (3).


Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: 
HardDisk2
Interface: 
IHardDisk2 {ed6e2525-c2fd-42a4-917a-7a9045ac9e15}

Somehow those two files, XP.vdi and HardDisks1.vdi are tied together. So even if I use clone to clone either of those then the other is still there. I guess I need them merged, and I don't see anyway to do that.

[vbox4me2]

Keep it simple, clone your VM in to 1 single VDI, create a new VM and attach the clone, once that works simple delete the whole old stuff.

[Sasquatch]

Since you have snapshots, the easiest clone method would be to use CloneZilla and clone it to a new VDI, so you can remove both xp.vdi and newdisk.vdi.