[PLUG] Increasing size of VirtualBox vdi...

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Mon Jun 22 16:17:43 UTC 2020


On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:02:29 +0000
michael at robinson-west.com dijo:

>I need to increase the size of a Virtualbox virtual disk from 30GB to
>at least 80GB. The virtual machine is named wrong too, I called it
>WIndows 7 Porfessional. I choose dynamically sized when I built the
>virtual machine. Trying to defrag the file in the guest, but there's
>less than 1 gig free.
>
>Can I change the virtual machine's name from ...Porfessional
>to ...Professional? Do I rename the directory and all the files or
>does it take more than that?
>
>I'm also needing to use my webcam, a Logitech HD 615C. I recall
>needing to do vboxmanage host side with some curious arguments to
>connect the camera to the running guest. Will I need to invoke
>vboxmanage in the future right after boot of the guest?

I think you can do all this with Virtualbox open on your desktop. Just
select 'Porfessional ...' - but don't doule-click or start it. Now you
can select various settings and change them.

Before you do any of this, of course, make a backup copy of the .vdi
file somewhere else. You don't want it in the same folder because on
being launched VB looks in its own folder for .vdi files and displays
them as machines available to rn\un.



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