Virtual Box : How to Increase Disk Size - Windows

This helped a lot I was stuck for hours love you bro

Thanks for the informative video. The limit on storage in windows 7 was getting to me (also works similar approach).

great job! Thanks so much for this

Thanks Safaa, pretty clear, working on May 2023 :)

Your data will be fine! -- Great video

Thanks alot

it worked for my ubuntu machine, thank you!

Do not repeat what is in the video, after that it does not start at all

Does this work to reduce a fixed Virtualbox hard disk?

How to do the partition on kali?

Thanks!

Oh disk size.... I came here for something entirely different. 😄

Good job!

After rebooting I get a "started user manager for uid 121" message, do you know what might be the problem here?

thank you

Getting such an error !!!


0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to resize medium
VBoxManage.exe: error: Shrinking is not yet supported for medium 'C:\Users\integrated\VirtualBox VMs\Linux\Linux.vhd'
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0009), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "enum RTEXITCODE __cdecl handleModifyMedium(struct HandlerArg *)" at line 816 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

Hi, there is actually now an EASIER way to do this:
1. Select 'File' in the top left of the VirtualBox Manager
2. Select 'Virtual Media Manager...'
3. Pick the Hard Disk .vdi you wish to increase
4. Right Click and select 'Properties' (or just select the properties option above)
5. View the 'Attribute' tab at the bottom of the window
6. Now you can move the slider for the size you wish to select to change your hard disk to
7. Select 'Apply'
Done.

Wonderful! Im subscribing

Does this work with Windows XP?

i got permission denied

Excellent tutorial. I spent more than an hour going through different website tutorials unsuccessfully, this video explained my problem and how to solve it in less than 5

.\VBoxManage.exe modifymedium "location to vdi" --resize 60999

Thank you!

.\VBoxManage.exe modifymedium "C:\Users\edwardm\VirtualBox VMs\Flyn_Rider\Flyn_Rider.vdi" --resize 60999

desen't work for me

"Bonjour" folder

Your video won't help me, you're using Windows 10! I need steps to install XP virtually from Windows 7 Pro!

maybe this information is necessary: The extend volume or shrink volume feature only works with NTFS file system. If the partition you want to extend is not formatted with NTFS, the Extend Volume option will be grayed out

What do I do if I have only powershell option

Wow! very helpfull

Are this cause delete files or no??

هل يؤدي ذلك الى حذف الملفاات ام لا؟؟

The steps worked except for when you have to open cmd. It took me through powershell but I opened the path on cmd. Then I had an issue merging the new space with the existing c drive. I had to use a 3rd party partioning tool and then move the recovery all the way to the right of the new space and then merge it.

Thank you very much. Nice and neat. Too easy, after watched your video. Congrats!

VBoxManage.exe : The term 'VBoxManage.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:1 char:1
+ VBoxManage.exe modifymedium "C:\Users\ hidden \VirtualBox VMs\Windows 10 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (VBoxManage.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Sincer thanks, Safaa Al-Hayali! For once I could actually follow your CLEAR SIMPLE instructions and . . . to my surprise, EVERYTHING ACTUALLY WORKED. I am extremely grateful!

vmdk is not working

File > Virtual Media Manager > Click the VDI you want to modify

Done

i cant open command windows here

doesn't work anymore ;.(

worked for me as well thank you

this broke my vm for Ubuntu. 😭😭😭

THANK YOU!

After resizing my ubuntu is not starting,what to do?

It worked thanks !

I did not even know about this command line tricks,
very well explained, and additionally a calming voice tone.

Awesome, very good guide. Keep it up dear.

Mr. Al-Hayali, thank you so much for posting this video. This has been so frustrating for me, but you solved my problem. Wishing you the best.

I get stuck at the oracle map part. I dont have an oracle map in program files. I installed virtual box on an ssd. Even at the folder i installed, there is no oracle. The files are the same as in the video, but rightclicking with shift only gives an option for powershell. Putting the code to the vm file in doesnt work. It says VBoxManage.exe doesnt exist.

You saved my sanity
Thank you so much