Comments on: Resize An Existing .vdi Virtualbox Image – EASILY!

By: Rick T

Rick T — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:03:44 +0000

This one worked better for me…I’m running Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 64Bit and my Vbox machine was windows 7

http://www.attackr.com/resize-an-existing-vdi-virtualbox-image-easily/

By: baltaz

baltaz — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:19:36 +0000

I would add to John W.’s comment that for Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines, you can skip the EASUS Partition Manager installation and use Windows’ Disk Management Utility to resize your main partition with the unallocated space (Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc).

By: John W

John W — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:16:13 +0000

@Stephen:

The steps are:
1. Go into VirtualBox and create your larger hd.
2. Clone the data on your new hd using:
VBoxManage clonehd –existing oldhd.vdi newhd.vdi
3. Launch VirtualBox and boot into Windows.
4. Go to http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm and download and download the (free) Home Edition of EASEUS ALL-IN-ONE Partition Manager Software.
5. Run EASEUS product, click on your partition, and choose the option to resize your partition and then choose the Apply button in the bottom left of the window. It will resize the partition in about 10 seconds or so.
6. Done!

By: Monty

Monty — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:22:35 +0000

Perfect! Thanks a lot!

One note when cloning on a Win7 machine the full path to the vdi disks is required i.e.

vboxmanage clonehd –existing e:vboxhdorig.vdi e:vbhoxhd
ew.vdi

By: Stephen G

Stephen G — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:19:42 +0000

So I successfully cloned to a larger .vdi but my in XP my system partition is still the same size, with the extra GBs as unpartitioned space. How do I resize the system (C:) partition?

By: Olle

Olle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:33:42 +0000

Worked like a charm!!

Replace the old.vdi image with
VBoxManage storageattach machineB –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 0 –device 0 –type hdd –medium /path/to/XP_10GIG.vdi

By: Experimentation in virtualization - Keith Bentrup’s Portforlio

Experimentation in virtualization - Keith Bentrup’s Portforlio — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:21:16 +0000

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By: syrbot (Greg Milby)

syrbot (Greg Milby) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:05:18 +0000

Virtualbox is like having an install of windows inside my linux box! http://www.attackr.com/resize-an-existing-vdi-virtualbox-image-easily/