The easiest way to increase Virtualbox disk size vdi and vhd
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- The easiest way to increase the size of a Virtualbox hard disk.
To increase the size of a fixed size disk of any format check out this tutorial: • How to Increase the si...
The method shown in this tutorial will only work for VHD and VDI that were created to be dynamically allocated and not fixed size disks.
In this tutorial I show you how to increase the size of a Virtualbox VHD/VDI hard disk.
The live Linux distro used was Ubuntu Desktop
www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/
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Used this procedure on a VHD on Windows 10, then just opened Disk Manager and extended partition, worked like a dream. Really helpful thanks.
Thank you so much! After hours of trying to figure this out, you explained it clear an concise in a 9 minute video! i really appreciate it!
Brilliant mate... been googling all morning and finally came across your video... pictures really are worth a 1000 words
It's very helpful, and very easy to follow --- not only your operation, but also your speaking. Great work!
Awesome video man! I had to download the live version of GParted since I didn't have a copy of the Ubuntu iso, but still worked with the steps you provided!
THANK YOU! I have been searching and searching and finally i found someone who knew what they were doing and also how to explain it! Nice job
Your welcome Jon, I'm glad you found it useful.
Thank you. This worked like a charm. I am a Ubuntu user and run Windows 7 in a VB. This was a simple and complete explanation of how to increase the VB size.
Great walk-through, just what i was looking for thank you for posting.
Thank you so much . I looked for the solutio everywhere. But this video explains the entire process in a very easy way .. Thanks !
Thank you Linux Leech.
I just did it with NTFS volumes and it works!!
This was a fantastic tutorial!hanks for going to the effort to capturing how to increase a VirtualBox vdi file, it's been very helpful :)
Thank you, it was very clear and neat your explanation. Appreciated your time spent creating those.
+Wiliam Ferraciolli Thanks william much appreciated.
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This walkthrough is what finally worked for me. Thank you very much!
Very good tutorial - thank you very much. My host machine is Mint 17.2 and I resized a Windows 7 vdi. Worked without issue.
Best video, clearest set of instructions. THANKS FOR YOUR VALUABLE TIME
Just what I needed. I totally forgot how this was done.
Linux Leech, thank you for your video. Like many other people, I kept getting that annoying error message from Ubuntu about how I was running out of memory. After watching your video on how to use GParted with Ubuntu and another video on how to resize the disk while using VirtualBox and Windows, I was FINALLY able to resize my disk for Ubuntu. Next time I have to do this, it won't be such a headache. Once again, thank you for the video. I will watch your other videos as I learn how to use Linux.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge ... this was very helpful and saved my time.
Excellent video. Bailed me out. I had a fixed disk vdi which can't be resized so I had to clone it to a dynamic vdi and use this video to resize it. Great job
This was a great tutorial! It really helped me out.
Good thanks. It's worth adding that you can use gparted/parted to resize live on a mounted root filesystem, then reboot for the OS to pick up the larger partition size, then use resize2fs which will do an online resize to increase the size on a mounted root partition
Thank you for this clear and helpful video.
Thanks for breaking it down, this was really helpful.
You're a legend man! Thanks for this tutorial.
Awesome dude!! Perfectly explained, also had not to do the swap staff tho.
Very handy tutorial! Thanks a lot for posting
Explained nicely. Nice work indeed.
Awesome ! This worked beautifully.
thank you ! i did this to increase the space of my 18.04 hard-disk. worked just fine (i didnt have a swap though, so ignored those parts)
Thanks. You made it so simple.
Excellent tutorial and nicely presented. Thanks very much.
Awesome...worked like a charm... thanks a ton for the clear explanation.
Like most of the others here, you helped me a whole lot with this video, still good in 2021!
I am also in same mission in 2021
Thank you! This is the best explanation!
Wonderful tip, gained a new subscriber.
Thanks very much +Linux Leech. Very well explained without any superfluous nonsense. Good job.
+John Watson Thanks John :)
to those who couldn't find Gparted Partition Editor, run the command "sudo apt-get install gparted" from your ubuntu terminal. It's not installed automatically.
I have a windows 8 virtual machine and resized,(after extending it as you showed),it by opening up windows 8 in VirtualBox and going to control panel typing in disk, choosing "create and format hard-disk" right-clicking on the main (C:) drive and choosing extend volume. Working fine. Thanks for your guidance.
Thank You saved my lot of time resizing ubuntu on virtualbox
Thank you. It was really helpful.
Thankyou so much for the tutorial. It helped me a lot!
Thanks a tonne!! :D
My host is windows 7 and running debian 32-bit in VB! I just had to do things a little different! It works like charm!
how did you do it in debian?
For windows guest you can just go into the OS and expand to volume via disk management.
does this actually work ?
Great video. This was very helping-
It works great! Thank you.
Thanks alot for this perfect tutorial !
Excellent tutorial! Thanks - saved me many hours
Thanks for commenting Nick.
You, sir, are a genius, thanks!
Very useful video! Very well explained!
Worked perfectly, thanks
I increased my Virtualbox disk via this method but because I have a windows VM instead I used AOMEI Parition Assistant Standard Edition free instead also worked. Thanks. I couldn't work out why GParted bootup keeps going in debian mode which I have not yet work out the kick to it at all. But many thanks for this video :)
Thank you so much. Very useful.
Awesome... worked like a charm...
Thanks a lot.It worked smoothly for me.
Thank you man! you saved my day!
Really well explained video. Thanks. a big Thumb up for you
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Thanks Mu He, glad you found it useful.
Perfect - thank you!
i've done a lot of reading/searching on the internet for doing this. this is by far the best/clearest set of instructions!! i'm looking forward to watching more of your vids. keep up the good work!!!
justo222 Thanks.
Very useful. Thanks
Thank you! Great help
Thanks !! Life saver for me ..
thx you bro such a nice video
thanks man ... you saved my life
Thanks, great video!!!!
thank you very much, it worked smothely
Great!! Thank you!
Very good and easy vid
Thank you so much :)
Thanks worked perfectly
Mindaugas Lukošius Out of interest are you using LVM?
Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much!
Good. Thanks.
When he says boot your machine, he means to the 'try ubuntu, live cd boot', not boot your installation, FYI.
Good Job worked fine for me
Also, nowadays you can just live-resize with the "Disks" tool from the main OS boot app menu
Great Tutorial
Thank you :)
Thank you Budd
Very well explained , but when I tried running it with the old ubuntu iso file , I was required to re-install OS , I had to give up the old files ! Please make an extension of this !
Thanks
worked like a charm wow
Perfect - thanks!
Glad it helped!
I'm in love with you, just thank you so much.
I think there is a bug in the lastest virtual box. When I run these commands and reinsert the .vdi it shows where it has been enlarged but gparted in a live cd only shows the originals size of the .vdi.
Can I just create a larger .vdi and use dd to copy it over?
Thank u for ur help.
This works with a windows guest also just letting people know in case they need it. On windows you go to diskmgmt.msc then you should see the unallocated space then right click your C: drive and choose extend disk. Then choose the unallocated space and then windows will increase the drive size automatically and your done! Hope this helps someone.
Thank you!
Ditto all the positive comments below. You have a new subscriber !
also, great video! thank you sooooo much
I tried to do your demo for Ubuntu Server but when I checked the disk space in the terminal with df command, the disk space hasn't changed. Is there anything extra I need to do after using GParted?
you can resize using GParted directly with your ubuntu installation. You don't need to boot another image.
hey man, I really need your help. I followed you tutorial and was able to increase the disk size, however, after adding the new disk to my VM, it is not the latest state of the system, it matches with the latest snapshot taken (about 2 weeks before). Can you please advice how to jump/recover latest state?. I even added the backup image .vdi file taken before doing the resize and same thing. Can you please help me?
Me too. I lost all my data and it booted me to new ubuntu. I tried many things to recover my VM or data. Can you please help?
The key that was missing for me is that you have DETACH the drive, then resize, then REATTACH.
When I was resizing in-place it wouldn't show up as resizable in the OS.
Noob here, fresh LinuxMint install. Very clear, well-instructed vid but I've hit snag and wondering if you can help. I've been running Win7 as guest and now need more disk space. I've managed to resize my dynamic Win7.vdi from 25GB to 100GB as per your instructions, but I'm unsure as what to do next. The actual and virtual size differ, naturally, but when I run gparted (as root) my win7.vdi does not show up. I have a TB HD with sda1 fat32 500MB, sda2 ext4 915GB and sda3 linux-swap 16GB. How do I proceed?
How did you pop-up that Linux command module? The only Linux I'm using is through the VM.
Just to add.. since making these changes my vm has been loading with "start job running" and taking 90+ sec to load. at the end of this tutorial i forgot to update the "swap uuid" with the new one generated upon changing partitions in gparted. I'm sure everyone here knows how to do that but i didn't lol a quick google search and now it is loading very quick and i can now enjoy the additional disk space with no bothersome delay at startup
There is an I card at the end of this video that shows you exactly how to do that.
I'm not sure why but every time I do this and boot up in live cd and open up gparted the larger disk space is not there. It does show up in the storage info in virtualbox but the hd stays the same.
I don't boot into the Secondary Master when I start the virtual machine. How can I change this?
Thank you bro a lot
I followed the steps, but I did not change the backup VDI and now the backup VDI did not show the latest work I have. Even the hard disk that I extend missed the files I had. Any idea how to recover the files before resizing the disk?
in case of window user how to open termial ...in mac its unix based termial for managing all this but in window its not....what to do?