lesnojohn.blogg.se - Increase disk space virtualbox mac

Resize the virtual disk (VirtualBox version 4.0+ only)

IMPORTANT: If the virtual disk you want to resize is attached to a virtual machine with snapshots, you will need to delete these snapshots so that all disk state information is merged into the base virtual disk VDI file.Ġ.

Download the ISO for a GParted Live CD or else a Linux Live CD using a Linux distribution that includes the GParted partition editor utility.

Make sure you have the VBoxManage command-line tool installed on your host system.

Prerequisitesīefore you start this procedure you'll need to do the following. You will still need to perform the final step of expanding the partition in your newly resized virtual disk image. You may replace the first three steps with a single VBoxManage command.

Expand the partition in the new virtual disk clone.Īs of VirtualBox 4.0 (released December 22, 2010), the process has gotten a lot simpler.

Replace the old virtual disk on your virtual machine with the new one.

Clone the existing virtual disk into the new virtual disk.

After some trial and error, I've cobbled together a solution documented below which consolidates and amends information found elsewhere online.įor VirtualBox versions before 4.0, the procedure, in broad strokes, involves the following steps.

Prior to version 4.0, expanding the size of a virtual disk was not a task that was directly supported by VirtualBox.