Sunday, November 21, 2021

How to expand virtual hard disk in VirtualBox

How to expand virtual hard disk in VirtualBox

To expand a virtual disk in VirtualBox open Oracle VM Virtual Manager then do File | Virtual Media Manager... (Ctrl+D) menu option. Then select the disk you wanted to expand. Note that VirtualBox does not support expanding a snapshot - you can expand but it will not work. You either have to delete all the snapshots or create a full clone of the snapshot. In the screen capture below I have created a full clone of Ubu2110 to Ubu2110-C1 and adjusted the size from 10GB to 12GB.

In the next post, we will explore how to expand storage of a Ubuntu VM to make use of the additional space.

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