Oooohhh, that's embarrassing! I was trying to _add_ 6 GB.....
OK. That's life.

Thank you very much!

Am 05.02.2017 um 22:18 schrieb Maxime Dor:
> 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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