#VIRTUALBOX INCREASE DISK SIZE GPARTED PC#
#VIRTUALBOX INCREASE DISK SIZE GPARTED ISO#

Download CloneZilla and GParted‘s Live ISO version. You might need the bootable ISO version of GParted, too, in case the resizing process fails.ġ.

With the approach we’ll follow, you will need to download a bootable ISO of CloneZilla (on the Host OS).

As a bonus, the latest versions of CloneZilla deal with the resizing of any partitions, so if everything goes according to plan, after this you only have to swap virtual HDDs and boot your virtual PC. There is no need to back up things since your old virtual HDD will still exist if need be. Instead of trying to alter the virtual machine’s HDD, we’ll do what we’d do with a “normal” PC: create and “attach” a second HDD, then use a standard, bootable version of the favorite imaging/backup tool CloneZilla to copy the contents of the old virtual HDD to the new one and then remove the old HDD, leaving you with more storage without having to deal with cryptic commands and strange failures.

#VIRTUALBOX INCREASE DISK SIZE GPARTED PC#

There is another unconventional way – expand the HDD size in Virtualbox and treat your virtual PC as a real one! Job done.You can try the conventional way – use command-line tools to expand it and a partition tool to expand the HDD size in the guest OS. VBoxManage storageattach vm -storagectl SATA -medium vg-disk1a.vdi -port 1 -nonrotational on -type hddįinally restart the vm VBoxManage startvm vm -type headless VBoxManage storagectl vm -name SATA -add sata -controller IntelAhci -portcount 30 -bootable on (Not sure about the portcount switch this worked but gave a slightly different configuration from the original.) VBoxManage storagectl vm -name vm-disk1.vdmk -detach Now ssh on to the host server and detach/attach drives. vdi drive image back over to the host server. I suffered kernel panics a few times not sure why, perhaps swap was misconfigured). At this point you might want to ensure that it starts okay. Then turn swap back on with swapon /dev/sda3 If you have taken the opportunity to move the swap partition then turn off swap and mark the new partition as swap swapoff -aĪt this point edit (sudo) /etc/fstab and tell it that swap is now /dev/sda3. Then the filing system resize2fs /dev/vm-vg/root Now reboot the vm and working it’s command line first extend the logical volume lvextend -l +100%FREE vm-vg/root Then shutdown the machine and unmount the gparted iso. Then deactivate the drives again and extend the LVM partition (sda5) to fill the now available space. I applied the changes after the extended partition had been extended. For a vm I can’t see that it makes any difference.) I’m used to CentOS and I’ve always seen swap on it’s own partition. (A dedicated swap partition is not necessary. I then added an 8Gb swap partition (sda3) at the end of the space before resizing the extended partition (sda2). I found that trying to boot to X didn’t work. I went to the command line and then ran startx. I also set the optical drive to my gparted iso. Then using the manager app I detached the. I then resized it on the command line with VBoxManage modifyhd vm-disk1.vdi -resize 51200 vmdk is copied back to the workstation you can use the graphical VM VirtualBox Manager to copy the drive image to a. To stop the vm ssh on to it and sudo shutdown -h now. You might need to copy the whole machine (folder) over to your workstation. I originally created the vm on my machine and copied it over to the host, so only needed to copy the disk image back over. Extend sda2 to fill the unallocated spaceĪs the host server is headless I wanted to do as much of the work as possible on my workstation.It had an 8Gb drive which I needed to resize.It’s done now, but took more googling than it should have done. I had a small virtual machine (Ubuntu 12, Virtual Box) being hosted on a headless server.

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