asked on Virtual Box - Change "system"drive size
How can I change the "system" drive size (increase) in Virtual Box without having to recreate a new virtual disk and reinstall to that? Is there away to "image" the system drive with Virtual Box tools and then restore?
(know I have included non "Virtual Box" areas but hopefully some of you may know)
Thanks!
(know I have included non "Virtual Box" areas but hopefully some of you may know)
Thanks!
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DanielT
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Only skimmed the article but... at a glance it is essentially the same as a non-virtual machine.
Create Disk Image
"install" new drive
Restore Disk Image
Thought there may have been a way with VirtualBox Utilities or by saving the machine somehow and then restoring - similar to the snapshots.
Oh Well.
Thanks.
Create Disk Image
"install" new drive
Restore Disk Image
Thought there may have been a way with VirtualBox Utilities or by saving the machine somehow and then restoring - similar to the snapshots.
Oh Well.
Thanks.
ASKER
Also - thinking this may have been in the 'power' of virtual machines, I did not mention that the install I need to expand HDD space for is an install of Server Std 2008 R2. Many utilities will not run on server.
Any options for that?
Any options for that?
You should be able to clone the existing disk to a new disk, and expand to the new disk.
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hancocka
Tried the clone option but it cloned the entire machine without an option to change virtual disk sizes. No options exist within the storage settings to clone - just to add or remove.
In your link above there was mention of using CloneZilla but I will have to try and get the ISO again as they reported instability issues on their site when I checked last. Are there other free options that will work with a virtual server? This is only a test environment - and temporary at that so I am not looking for commercial options.
Tried the clone option but it cloned the entire machine without an option to change virtual disk sizes. No options exist within the storage settings to clone - just to add or remove.
In your link above there was mention of using CloneZilla but I will have to try and get the ISO again as they reported instability issues on their site when I checked last. Are there other free options that will work with a virtual server? This is only a test environment - and temporary at that so I am not looking for commercial options.
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Thanks... was able to get at it today without the D/L being aborted.
Will give it a shot.
Will give it a shot.
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Have tried a couple of solutions in my spare time but had some trouble using Clonezilla. I think it had to do with not being able to select a location to save the image to. I do need to get back at it but if there is a suggestion in this regard in the meantime...
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Process did succeed. Thanks.
Not exactly a user friendly process but (obviously) quite doable.
Did not actually use the process in the link supplied earlier in the thread so I cannot comment on that; just the Clonezilla Imaging software (once I could get it and figure it all out) in conjunction with VirtualBox Manager.
Not exactly a user friendly process but (obviously) quite doable.
Did not actually use the process in the link supplied earlier in the thread so I cannot comment on that; just the Clonezilla Imaging software (once I could get it and figure it all out) in conjunction with VirtualBox Manager.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-shrink-expand-disks.html