how to increase the virtual disk size in vbox? SOLVED!!!

[j-retired]

I have a fully functioning vbox on PCLOS hosting a win install.  Unfortunately I was too mean setting the vitrual disk size, and now I need to increase it..... How can I do that without doing a new install etc?
This is the USB enabled version from the SUN site, but I don't expect that to make any difference.

j

[YouCanToo]

I did the same thing as you for a friend. Now they are always getting a low disk space warning.  So far I have found no way to increase the disk size.

[Rudge]

If I click on my virtual machine settings, that opens a box that gives me a "storage" options box were I can click on the drive and then "Open Virtual media Manager" (tiny box to the right of my drive), that opens a box where I can do many things to control that drive. Am I wrong about this? I haven't tried to do anything because I don't want to mess mine up  

[smcs_steve]

I've see discussion here> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422[CloneVDI%20tool/

questions often arise related to VDI files such as "how do I increase the maximum size of a VDI?" or "how can I make my dynamic VDI file small again?".

Attached to this message is a zip file containing the software tool that I wrote, which I call "CloneVDI" (currently at version 1.43). Features as of this release include:

Looks promising - might give it a try when time permits!
>Steve

[smcs_steve]

dubigrasu > I tried the secondary hard drive method but no luck with my installation (ver 3.06 r5XXXX from outside the repo )

I've see discussion here> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422[CloneVDI%20tool/

questions often arise related to VDI files such as "how do I increase the maximum size of a VDI?" or "how can I make my dynamic VDI file small again?".

Attached to this message is a zip file containing the software tool that I wrote, which I call "CloneVDI" (currently at version 1.43). Features as of this release include:

Looks promising - might give it a try when time permits!
>Steve

OK - I tried the VDI clone utility and it works a treat! - simple GUI allows generating new UUID (or keeping old), Increasing virtual drive size, and Compact drive while coping.
A new UUID is handy if you want to have multiple versions of your favorite .VDI running simultaneously.

I increased my original .VDI limit from 10 to 25 GB and cleaned up some 20MB of empty blocks using the compact drive option.
The new .VDI runs but Window$ XP  still reports a C: drive size of 10GB     I'll have to dump 10GB+ in it and see if it ruptures!

[j-retired]

Thanks guys, but after reading all the ideas I looked carefully at the "Sun Virtual Box" panel which appears when you start VB,  clicked the "hard drive" section, and in the "settings" panel I clicked "hard drive" again.  Now I already had another virtual HD from another experiment, and clicking on that offered me the option of "attaching" it to the other HD. So I did, and lo & behold, on restarting the virtual machine I have an extra "E" partition.
So there you are folks - just create an extra HD, give it whatever size you feel like, attach it, restart your virtual machine and enjoy the new space!
Thanks for the ideas that got me there.

j

[smcs_steve]

So you'll have to increase also the partition size with some other tool.

Doohh!.... of course - what was (wasn't) I thinkin!
Everything sorted now - thanks for waking we up! 
>Steve