Thank you all who responded. Finally I ended up doing the complicated (and
simple) way of creating new bigger disk and copying data over. It is pity
there such thing cannot be accomplished out of the Box :-)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Okky Hendriansyah <mawcik...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Have you tried using *VBoxManage clonehd* subcommand instead? I think you
> cannot resize a fixed VDI disk directly before cloning it to a dynamic VDI.
>
> Something like this:
> *VBoxManage clonehd opt.vdi opt-dynamic.vdi --format VDI --variant
> Standard*
>
> After that you can then resize it to your needs:
> *VBoxManage modifyhd opt-dynamic.vdi --resize 8192*
>
> Please do note that cloning a VDI will generate a new UUID for the cloned
> VDI. Hopefully removing the original VDI from the VM and attaching the
> cloned VDI will not make issues on your VM.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> --
> Okky Hendriansyah
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Peter Ondruška <
> peter.ondruska+virtual...@kaibo.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to make VDI larger but it fails:
>>
>> VBoxManage modifyhd "opt.vdi" --resize 8192
>> 0%...
>> Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
>> VBoxManage.exe: error: Resize hard disk operation for this format is not
>> implemented yet!
>>
>> This particular VDI was created with fixed size (not auto expanding). Is
>> there any easy way to make this VDI larger, or do I have to recreate?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
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