-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2014 05:17 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > I'm running Win2K as a virtual machine on my new Ubuntu 14.04 host. > There's plenty of machine, memory, and disk space on this machine > (Intel i3-4130, 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive) to allow me to run a > bigger virtual machine than I could on my old machine. I exported > the old virtual machine as a ovf and vmdk files, and successfully > imported it. > > The program I'm running on it needs more disk space to take > advantage of a feature I have not used before. I've tried Googling > for how to expand the virtual disk space in a vmdk file, but I keep > finding how to do that on a Windows host rather than a Linux host. > > Has anyone had occasion to expand a vmdk file with a Linux host - > preferably running Ubuntu, but any Linux flavor will help. > > Thanks. >
The host is not relevant: the Virtuabox commands are the same (depending on who did the package, of course; some debian-esque varieties leave out a bunch of symlinks to the '/opt/VirtualBox/VBox' script): http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvdi For safety, I would clone the VDMK image to VDI and modify the latter. - -Ed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlNphWQACgkQXvwMaW61dLdFmQCfUe5ivYl6KAzIwrjGuHmJZ7xW M2sAn1gerKf8/RMT4ltsWaPpAuRd1qoB =yVuA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
