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New to Vurtualbox and first time installer.

I did the silly thing and only allocated 10GB to install Windows 7 64-Bit. I've also installed all updates, and am now left with 25MB HD space.

Is there any way to increase the VDI?

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.h ... -modifyvdi
Then increase the primary partition to use the rest of the drive. (disk manager), or use Gparted.

Perryg, sorry i'm new to this.

Is this done through terminal?

Yes it is. Example: will increase the size to 20GB

Note: this will not work if you have snapshots.

Hmm.. Must be doing something wrong.

I've opened Terminal which show the following:

Last login: Wed Jun 20 09:04:14 on ttys000
MacBook-Pro:~ blimpman$

I then past the following:

VBoxManage modifyhd "</Users/blimpman/VirtualBox VMs/VM Window 7/VM Window 7.vdi>" --resize 20480

But get this error message:

Last login: Wed Jun 20 09:04:14 on ttys000
MacBook-Pro:~ blimpman$ VBoxManage modifyhd "</Users/blimpman/VirtualBox VMs/VM Window 7/VM Window 7.vdi>" --resize 20480

VBoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium '/Users/blimpman/</Users/blimpman/VirtualBox VMs/VM Window 7/VM Window 7.vdi>' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)

VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Medium, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports

Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, AccessMode_ReadWrite, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 210 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

MacBook-Pro:~ blimpman$

I just typed the following, and got this?



Last login: Wed Jun 20 09:20:23 on ttys000
MacBook-Pro:~ blimpman$ VBoxManage modifyhd /Users/blimpman/VirtualBox VMs/VM Window 7/VM Window 7.vdi --resize 20480
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 4.1.16
(C) 2005-2012 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Usage:

VBoxManage modifyhd <uuid>|<filename>
[--type normal|writethrough|immutable|shareable|
readonly|multiattach]
[--autoreset on|off]
[--compact]
[--resize <megabytes>|--resizebyte <bytes>]


Syntax error: Invalid parameter 'VMs/VM'
MacBook-Pro:~ blimpman$

You are forgetting the quotes " " since there are spaces it will throw a syntax error if they are not there.

ahhh haaa.... got it

VBoxManage modifyhd "/Users/blimpman/VirtualBox VMs/VM Window 7/VM Window 7.vdi" --resize 30300

Help munch appreciated

what size did you hope to get with 30300?
1=1.024

oh... umm I was trying to increase it to 30GB

This is what is shows now:

IDE Controller
IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD):
VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (49.75 MB)
SATA Controller
SATA Port 0:
VM Window 7.vdi (Normal, 29.59 GB)

BTW Perryg, I should probably start a new post for this, to have windows display the same screen resolution, I need to install additions?

that would be 30720

blimpman wrote:BTW Perryg, I should probably start a new post for this...

Your instincts are correct. Start a new topic please, with a title that matches your question. After checking user manual and previous answers of course.

Will do in the future mpack, sorry I think I was a little excited in getting Virtualbox running

Perryg wrote:Yes it is. Example:

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VBoxManage modifyhd "<absolute path including name and extension>" --resize 20480

will increase the size to 20GB

Note: this will not work if you have snapshots.

Where do you input the command. I need to increase my vdi and cannot figure out how.

In the terminal (command line).