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Newbie question how do you run VboxManage
Posted: 30. Mar 2011, 15:28
by MacNala
I have a need to manage a virtualdisk (increase size) and have noted the way to do this is to run VboxManage modifyhd.
I run Vbox on a Win7 Ult PC and have not needed to use VboxManage until now. I can't find the instructions how to execute VboxManage.
How exactly do I do it?
Re: Newbie question how do you run VboxManage
Posted: 30. Mar 2011, 15:31
by frank
The VBoxManage application is installed in the path where you installed VirtualBox, usually c:\program files\oracle\virtualbox. Just open a cmd window, change to that directory and execute VBoxManage.
Re: Newbie question how do you run VboxManage
Posted: 30. Mar 2011, 15:35
by MacNala
Thanks I was looking in the wrong place OK now.
Re: Newbie question how do you run VboxManage
Posted: 31. Mar 2011, 11:24
by mpack
You should also look at the CloneVDI tool (see sticky topic in "Windows Hosts") for a friendlier way to increase disk size, among other things.
Re: Newbie question how do you run VboxManage
Posted: 1. Apr 2011, 14:11
by frank
Increasing the size of a virtual hard disk image is easily possible with VBoxMange as of version 4.0.
Re: Newbie question how do you run VboxManage
Posted: 1. Apr 2011, 14:54
by mpack
Frank Mehnert wrote:Increasing the size of a virtual hard disk image is easily possible with VBoxMange as of version 4.0.
It's possible yes, but earning the "easily" modifier would I think require GUI support at the very least - in addition to some kind of newbie protection against modifying the base element of a snapshot tree (the latter being a problem with in-place mods in general).