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Hello, I want to increase the size of the windows10 vm, and I have done that before. However, a couple days ago, I moved my windows10 vm to an external hard drive. And when I try to increase the size this time, I got following errors.

LuWeichendeMacBook-Air:~ luweichen$ VBoxManage modifyhd --resize 100000 ~/Volumes/G-DRIVE\ mobile\ USB/VirtualBox\ VMs/win\ 10/win\ 10.vdi
VBoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium '/Users/luweichen/Volumes/G-DRIVE mobile USB/VirtualBox VMs/win 10/win 10.vdi' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 179 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

Can someone help me plz. Thx

Please post a screenshot of your hosts file browser window opened to that folder. Or, listing the folder in a terminal window would be just as good.

I.e. please prove that the error message is wrong, and that file really is at that location.

I'll focus on the part of the command line that's wrong:

VBoxManage modifyhd --resize 100000 ~/Volumes/G-DRIVE...

Do you see that tilde (~) in front of the "/Volumes/..."? That shouldn't be there. That tilde translates to "your home directory". And your VDI is not in your home directory, it's in the "G-DRIVE...". i.e. "/Volumes/G-DRIVE...".

That works. Thx a lot

I'm getting an error in trying to resize a Windows 10 guest .vdi under macOS 10.12.6. I've dragged the .vdi file into Terminal, and surrounded it with quotes. I usually have success with this form of an escaped path name, but wanted to check if that is the correct method. Secondly, the first recipe I used (from other parts of the forums) places the full path after "modifyhd"; however in this thread, it appears the path is at the end. I tried it at the end as well, but this did not change the results.

$ VBoxManage modifyhd "/Users/bob/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit.vdi" --resize 35000

VBoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium '/Users/bob/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit/Windows\ 10\ Enterprise\ 64-bit.vdi' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 179 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

thanks

Bob

I just tried running the command without quotes surrounding the path, and it worked.

Bob

BobOra wrote:I just tried running the command without quotes surrounding the path, and it worked.

I'm no expert on OS X command line, but looking at the syntax you were using I would expect that you should either "escape" the spaces as you were doing, or you surround the string in quotes. Not both.

I believe you are correct. It has been a long while, and I'd forgotten the usage.