how to resize virtual HD after creating VM?

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qiubosu
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how to resize virtual HD after creating VM?

Post by qiubosu »

in sunvirtual box, when creating a VM, specifying the dynamically expanding storage virtual disk, e.g. 10G, the VM will have 10G maximum. how can we resize the virtual disk if found it not big enough later, without recreating another VM with larger virtual disk, say 50G? are there any safe ways to do this?
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Re: how to resize virtual HD after creating VM?

Post by Sasquatch »

It's in the VirtualBox FAQ. If you have Windows as Host, or Wine on your Linux machine, then you can use Mpack's CloneVDI tool (see the corresponding Hosts forum for a link).
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VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we're talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
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