Increase virtualbox vdi file

In Ubuntu The method we used to increase the size of the VirtualBox virtual drive above, the same will apply in Ubuntu too. In Command Terminal use the command. Replace the green text with your VM drive path and amount with the size of storage you want to add or expand for the Virtual drive.

Again go to setting of the VM, select the drive and see the amount of storage size this time. You can see in step 1 the size of drive was around 20 GB and now it is around 50GB. After copying the path, jot down it somewhere and then shut down the VM and quit VirtualBox. And we want to add 30GB into our existing virtual disk drive the syntax would be like this:. Useful posting. Thank you. This is an easy and quick tip but a great addition to VirtualBox fundamentals. If you find this tip useful, check out a few features of VirtualBox guest additions.

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Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. This will bring you to the Virtual Media Manager.

Click on the Add button and select the VDI file from step 1. Next, you can select your new VDI as an existing hard disk and finalize the creation process.

Then, back in the main window, you will now be able to start your new virtual machine. What if your virtual disk image VDI gets corrupted while importing? Published by admin. It is commonplace when a VM is new that the disk will grow quickly at first.

However as time passes the chance that a completely new sector will be written to decreases almost to zero, unless the guest has a really weird filesystem that actively avoids reusing sectors. The file system of the guest is a normal ubuntu ext4 - so nothing unusual. If it is normal that the vdi file grows in the beginning of a guest history and it starts with e.

Nevertheless I will check the guest tasks Regards Christian. It entirely depends on your usage patterns and the list of apps running in the guest. In my case an XP guest with a 32GB logical drive is still only 1.

Another is at 10GB. But, I always disable background indexing etc. I also know that if some one off task or a mistake made the VDI grow excessively then I can always compact it again. In fact a dynamic VDI starts off with 0 bytes allocated ignoring the fixed size header for this discussion.

Every expansion is due to a guest write. If the file is 1. Furthermore I have to keep an eye on the tasks running and to avoid everything unnecessary. And - if necessary - I have to compress the vdi file.