Description

Some VirtualBox Tutorials

Convert Between Fixed and Dynamic Disks

If we want to resize our virtualbox we must to set our disk like dynamic, so if our disk its in a fix mode we could convert it.

• Execute this command to create a clone version of our old disk but in dynamic mode

VBoxManage.exe clonemedium disk "C:\path\to\source.vdi" "C:\path\to\destination.vdi" –variant Standard

• Now we must detach our old disk and attach the new one from VirtualBox.

Resize a Dynamic Disk

One prerequisite to resize any disk in VirtualBox is that it must be in dynamic mode.

-Now from v5 of Virtualbox exist a tool called Virtual Media Manager to resize the disk in a visual mode

• The VistualBox it's resize but not the partition, so we must ran the image and rezise. We recomend use the tool called gparted if not exist installed:

sudo apt-get install gparted

• Resize the extended partition to the maximun offered by the VirtualBox disk

• Resize the partition to the maximun offered by the extended parition disk. Appli all changes before close.

• Check the new size.

Execute this command:

df -h