{"id":757,"date":"2011-07-21T21:51:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T09:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=757"},"modified":"2014-06-30T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T23:16:14","slug":"increase-size-of-virtualbox-image-current-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/increase-size-of-virtualbox-image-current-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase size of VirtualBox image (current state)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a Vista image that I foolishly set to 10GB. That was OK until I added the Java Runtime Engine, Eclipse, PyDev, Python, SOFA Statistics<\/a>, another user for testing purposes (with non-English characters in their user name and home directory) etc. And once I ran the space-greedy system updates, I was out of disk space. A working solution was found in these two posts: Increase\/Expand the Size of Windows 7 vdi file on VirtualBox Mac<\/a>, and Cloning a VM with multiple snapshots?<\/a>. If you want to copy the whole thing up to a particular snapshot (NB the result with be collapsed into one single VDI, unlike the original), get the hexUUID of the snapshot.<\/p>\n

Step 1 – make a new and larger VDI. I did so by making a new virtual machine (testVista) with a new virtual disk image (testVista.vdi). An alternative approach would have been to make the vdi on its own but I couldn’t find a menu item to allow that. It was no great burden doing it as part of making a new virtual machine though.<\/p>\n

Step 2 – clone the current state version of the old (and small) vdi. You need to find the hexUUID value of the snapshot you want. See Cloning a VM with multiple snapshots?<\/a> for details. It gives guidance on how to tell which uuid you need.<\/p>\n

The command that worked for me was (the path depends on where you are running the command from and your setup of course):<\/p>\n

VBoxManage clonehd 0db42252-9240-4a0a-9393-a7d79778364d \"..\/testVista\/testVista.vdi\" --existing<\/code><\/p>\n

Note – testVista was the new VDI I was trying to clone into. It should take a few minutes to run.<\/p>\n

Step 3 – disconnect to the old vdi and connect your machine to the larger vdi.<\/p>\n

Step 4 – Boot into your system and resize the partition as per Increase\/Expand the Size of Windows 7 vdi file on VirtualBox Mac<\/a> On XP I needed EaseUS Partition. For a Ubuntu guest I downloaded the Gparted iso, added that to storage as a live CD, and booted in. Resized everything and exited. Then unlinked from GParted iso.<\/p>\n

Step 5 – Success!<\/p>\n

[Update – needed to do this again on another vdi – thus the clarified instructions here]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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