On 05/07/2014 07:08 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 05/06/2014 05:59 PM, King Beowulf wrote: >> On 05/06/2014 05:17 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> <snip> >> 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. > Thanks. I'll give it a try as soon as spare time shows up again.
Thanks , Dick, for asking, and to KB for responding - it inspired me to finally tackle the overdue chore of cloning my ancient 20GB fixed-size VDI (created when storage was much more expen$ive) to a dynamic image, which i can resize easily. The cloning process was a CPU-sucker but seems to have worked. This article cuts to the chase with the VBoxManage utility, which gets installed correctly on Ubuntu 12.04: https://brainwreckedtech.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/howto-convert-vdis-between-fixed-sized-and-dynamic-in-virtualbox/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
