{"id":148,"date":"2014-02-23T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T11:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/?p=148"},"modified":"2018-03-31T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T15:10:49","slug":"increase-virtual-box-vdi-disk-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/increase-virtual-box-vdi-disk-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase Virtual Box VDI disk size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need more space on your Virtual Box disc? I installed Windows 7 on Oracle Virtual Box but didn\u2019t estimate the size of disk correctly. The drive is now nearing it\u2019s capacity, how do you extend the size?\u00a0It will take the following steps to achieve an extended disk capacity:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a new virtual disk<\/li>\n<li>Clone the old disk to this newly created virtual disk<\/li>\n<li>Disconnect the old disk via storage settings in Virtual Box<\/li>\n<li>Connect\/Attach the new disk to the Virtual Machine<\/li>\n<li>Boot up using the new disk<\/li>\n<li>Go to Windows Computer Management and Extend the disk space<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Let\u2019s go each step in a bit of detail now.<\/p>\n<div>1. Create new virtual disk via Settings \u2013&gt; Storage. Make sure you choose enough size as per your requirements when creating this new disk. Choose Dynamically expanding storage for the disk storage type.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2. Clone the old disk to this new disk \u2013 the idea is that the bigger new disk receives a disc copy of the old one. Use the following command for this:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"highlighter_1801\">\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">VBoxManage clonehd &#x5B;OldHDDFile.vdi] &#x5B;NewHDDFile.vdi] --existing<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Use full path with [OldHDDFile.vdi] and [NewHDDFile.vdi]. It can take few minutes for the Clone process to complete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>3. Disconnect the old disk via storage settings in Virtual Box<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>4. Connect\/Attach the new disk to the Virtual Machine<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>5. Boot\/Start the Virtual Machine<\/div>\n<div>6. Go to Windows Computer Management \u2013&gt; Disk\/Storage management and Extend the disk space on C drive to use the newly created\/unallocated disk space<\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s all enjoy the extended sized disk!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need more space on your Virtual Box disc? I installed Windows 7 on Oracle Virtual Box but didn\u2019t estimate the size of disk correctly. The drive is now nearing it\u2019s capacity, how do you extend the size?\u00a0It will take the following steps to achieve an extended disk capacity: Create a new virtual disk Clone the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pfft.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}