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#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC HOW TO#
#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC FOR MAC#
#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC MAC#
#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC WINDOWS#

(Re)Start VirtualBoxĪfter you’ve physically resized your drive, both VirtualBox and your OS should know about the changes.Īt this point, clicking on your VM in the VirtualBox window will show that it still has the old size:īefore: (Note the size of the drive at the bottom of the image)Īfter doing the resize, shutdown completely your VirtualBox, and launch it again. $ VBoxManage modifyhd /Users/gubatron/VirtualBox VMs/windows7-64bit/windows7-64bit.vdi –resize 40960 In my case I had a 20GB drive that I wanted to double in size (40GB), a quick Google search for “ 40GB to megabytes” yields the number 40960, so that’s what I put on my –resize parameter. Mouse over your virtual drive if you don’t know its location Step 1.

#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC MAC#

vdi to see it’s physical location on your Mac hardrive.

vdi file is, it’s very simple, right Click your VM > Settings > Storage, and mouse over the. In my computer it looked exactly like this: You can clone your drive using guess what? yes, the VBoxManage tool. I recommend that before you do anything you clone your existing drive, just in case… When you’re using the VBoxManage tool make sure your VM is not running, stop it completely to be safe.

#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC FOR MAC#

VirtualBox for Mac comes with a tool called VBoxManage, this tool is all you need to resize your virtual disk. Now you’re running out of space and all your Google searches point you to stupid posts on the forums that lead to nowhere, specially if you are a MacOSX user, look no further, you’ve found the solution to your problem on this post.

#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC WINDOWS#

It’s done.So you created a disk for your Windows or Linux VirtualBox VM and you made the mistake of not creating the drive as a dynamically expanding storage drive, you chose fixed size.

Location: /Users/nilnandan/VirtualBox VMs/centos67-mysql/centos67-3.vdi Storage format: VDI Format variant: dynamic default Capacity: 25600 MBytes Size on disk: 10706 MBytes Encryption: disabled. Nils-Mac:MacOS nilnandan$ VBoxManage showhdinfo /Users/nilnandan/VirtualBox\ VMs/centos67-mysql/centos67-3.vdi.

Now, when you’ll check the size, it will be.

Here, I got the error because there is a space between VirtualBox and VMs so I have to use escape character to solve this,.

Syntax error: Invalid parameter 'VMs/centos67-mysql/centos67-3.vdi' [-type normal|writethrough|immutable|shareable| Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 5.0.12 I’m going to increase size from 10GB to 25GB Nils-Mac:MacOS nilnandan$ VBoxManage modifyhd -resize 25600 /Users/nilnandan/VirtualBox VMs/centos67-mysql/centos67-3.vdi

Now from the location of step 2, run the command to resize it.

drwx- 6 nilnandan staff 204B Aug 11 17:50 Logs drwx- 2 nilnandan staff 68B Aug 11 17:47 Snapshots -rw- 1 nilnandan staff 10G Aug 11 18:20 centos67-3.vdi -rw- 1 nilnandan staff 7.7K Aug 11 18:15 centos67-mysql.vbox -rw- 1 nilnandan staff 7.7K Aug 11 17:50 centos67-mysql.vbox-prev Nils-Mac:centos67-mysql nilnandan$ Nils-Mac:centos67-mysql nilnandan$ pwd /Users/nilnandan/VirtualBox VMs/centos67-mysql Nils-Mac:centos67-mysql nilnandan$ ls -alh total 21925920 drwx- 7 nilnandan staff 238B Aug 11 18:15.

Start another terminal with command + T and find the directory where actually the VDI file stored.

Nils-Mac:MacOS nilnandan$ pwd /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/Resources/VirtualBoxVM.app/Contents/MacOS Nils-Mac:MacOS nilnandan$ From here you can run the command to resize the VDI file.

Open the terminal and go to the below path (default location).

#HOW TO RESIZE VIRTUALBOX VDI ON MAC HOW TO#

I would just like to mention simple steps for how to do it. Recently, I had to do this as 10GB was not sufficient for Centos6.7 VM.