[PLUG] Expand a VirtualBox VMDK file?

[King Beowulf]

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On 05/06/2014 05:17 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I'm running Win2K as a virtual machine on my new Ubuntu 14.04 host.
>  There's plenty of machine, memory, and disk space on this machine
> (Intel i3-4130, 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive) to allow me to run a
> bigger virtual machine than I could on my old machine. I exported
> the old virtual machine as a ovf and vmdk files, and successfully
> imported it.
> 
> The program I'm running on it needs more disk space to take
> advantage of a feature I have not used before. I've tried Googling
> for how to expand the virtual disk space in a vmdk file, but I keep
> finding how to do that on a Windows host rather than a Linux host.
> 
> Has anyone had occasion to expand a vmdk file with a Linux host - 
> preferably running Ubuntu, but any Linux flavor will help.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

The host is not relevant: the Virtuabox commands are the same
(depending on who did the package, of course; some debian-esque
varieties leave out a bunch of symlinks to the '/opt/VirtualBox/VBox'
script):

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvdi

For safety, I would clone the VDMK image to VDI and modify the latter.

- -Ed
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