Source: 12288MB (12GB)
Destination 6000MB (6GB)

You are trying to shrink a disk of 12GB (give or take) to 6GB, which is 
not supported. Only expanding is.
Maybe you're missing a 0 in there?

On 05/02/17 21:36, Boris wrote:
> Hej vbox-list,
>
>
> On Debian Jessie, I run vbox 5.0.32. A VM with Win7 runs out of
> diskspace, so I want to resize the vdi.
>
> No snapshot was ever established.
>
> The vdi was formatted with static size, so I cloned it to dynamic.
>
> showmediuminfo:
>
> UUID:           e07898b0-05b8-4c82-8b5f-b0ea503bb58c
> Parent UUID:    base
> State:          created
> Type:           normal (base)
> Location:       /home/boris/VirtualBox VMs/Win7NAZA/Win7NAZA_var.vdi
> Storage format: VDI
> Format variant: dynamic default
> Capacity:       12288 MBytes
> Size on disk:   12016 MBytes
> Encryption:     disabled
>
> Finally, I think all preconditions for resizing should be fulfilled, but
>
> VBoxManage modifymedium '/home/boris/VirtualBox
> VMs/Win7NAZA/Win7NAZA_var.vdi' --resize 6000
>
> failes with
>
> 0%...
> Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
> VBoxManage: error: Resize medium operation for this format is not
> implemented yet!
>
> Any idea is appreciated! Thanks!
>
> Boris
>
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