Increasing disk space on a running VM

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burstnetworks
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Increasing disk space on a running VM

Post by burstnetworks »

Hello,

Is there anyway i can increase the hard drive space on a running (or shutdown) virtual machine? i cannot seem to find anywhere to do this (only to upgrade the RAM).

Is this sort of this possible?

Thanks

Jake
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Re: Increasing disk space on a running VM

Post by Perryg »

Welcome to the forums burstnetworks,

Only one way to increase the size of the VDI file once it is created Read this: All about VDIs.
While you are at it you might want to bookmark this page. VirtualBox FAQ.
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