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[SOLVED]VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 16. May 2013, 18:46
by Mayagrafix
Would the following be the corect sintax to resize a virtual HDD from 8G to 15G?
VBoxManage modifyhd 810963de-2a31-43b5-b2a1-9fa48dc7a970 --resize 15G
Here is the output from VBoxManage list hdds:
UUID: 810963de-2a31-43b5-b2a1-9fa48dc7a970
Parent UUID: base
Format: VDI
Location: /home/mayagrafix/VirtualBox VMs/openSUSE/openSUSE-HDD.vdi
State: created
Type: normal
Usage: openSUSE (UUID: f82cf1be-ce41-425f-b00e-3a14b6cea2be)
Thanks for any help
Re: VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 16. May 2013, 18:48
by mpack
"15G" is not a number. You need to provide a number in MB. Hopefully you didn't resize the drive to 15MB (thankfully that should not be possible - however you mentioned no error message).
Re: VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 16. May 2013, 21:49
by Mayagrafix
Thanks for the heads-up, better shure than sorry. OK, here is what I get:
mayagrafix@Inspiron-620ss:~$ VBoxManage modifyhd 810963de-2a31-43b5-b2a1-9fa48dc7a970 --resize 15360
VBoxManage: error: The given path '810963de-2a31-43b5-b2a1-9fa48dc7a970' is not fully qualified
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Medium, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 178 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
Re: VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 16. May 2013, 22:03
by Mayagrafix
Here is one that worked:
VBoxManage modifyhd /home/mayagrafix/VirtualBox_VMs/openSUSE/openSUSE-HDD.vdi --resize 15360
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Thanks for all your help
Re: [SOLVED]VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 17. May 2013, 10:42
by mpack
If you had put the UUID {in braces} then that would probably have worked too. To be safe, I would wrap both filenames and UUIDs "in quotes" too.
Re: [SOLVED]VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 1. Aug 2013, 23:36
by L30nardoSV
I confirm what Mayagraphics said.
It works fine. Just in case the path of your .vdi file has spaces, don't forget to put "\" in order to specify it.
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root@l30nardosv:/home/l30nardosv/VirtualBox VMs/CentOS6.4# VBoxManage showhdinfo CentOS6.4.vdi
UUID: 322a76c7-4349-4c5a-b9eb-8ed95582b24a
Accessible: yes
Logical size: 8192 MBytes
Current size on disk: 7680 MBytes
Type: normal (base)
Storage format: VDI
Format variant: dynamic default
Location: /home/l30nardosv/VirtualBox VMs/CentOS6.4/CentOS6.4.vdi
The location ".../VirtualBox VMs/..." specified above has a space character, so the command would be (check out the "\" inserted!):
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root@l30nardosv:/home/l30nardosv/VirtualBox VMs/CentOS6.4# VBoxManage modifyhd /home/l30nardosv/VirtualBox\ VMs/CentOS6.4/CentOS6.4.vdi --resize 15360
The results is:
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0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Re: [SOLVED]VBoxManage modifyhd
Posted: 2. Aug 2013, 08:36
by mpack
AFAIK, you just wrap the argument in quotes "like this". Any other trick may not work on all hosts.