The resizing process is completes after it reaches 100%. VBoxManage modifyhd path/to/cloned-vdi-file -resize 30000 Now we can resize our cloned virtual HDD as per requirement with modifyhd command and use in our VM. Clone vdi file is dynamic default format variant (dynamically allocated image). Now check info of the cloned vdi file VBoxManage showhdinfo /path/to/colned-vdi-fileĬheck the Format variant section. VBoxManage clonehd /path/tp/vdi-file /path/to/cloned-vdi-file We can check the HDD info with following command: VBoxManage showhdinfo /path/to/vdi-fileįor such case, we will first clone the existing virtual HDD of fixed format variant. However, if the virtual HDD is of fixed default format variant (fixed allocated image), the command will not work as resize only works in dynamic default format variant (dynamically allocated image). If we want to resize form 20GB to 30GB, the command is: VBoxManage modifyhd path/to/vdi-file -resize 30000 ‘X’ in the command refers to the amount of space (in megabyte) that we want to resize to. To resize the virtual HDD, VirtualBox porvides ‘ modifyhd‘ command to modify the options of our virtual HDD VBoxManage modifyhd path/to/vdi-file -resize X We feel the need of more storage space.įor that we need to increase the size of our virtual HDD. While setting up virtual machine in VirtualBox, we usually setup with the lowest recommended size for storage space (20GB), so it doesn’t consume much of our HDD. However, on course of the use, we may install more apps and save more data in VM, then we find that 20GB of storage space was hardly enough.

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