There are a number of different types of virtual hard disks. The Windows OS is natively able to mount a VHD- or VHDX-based virtual hard drive file in the same way that any other type of removable media can be mounted and accessed by the operating system. In some cases, however, virtual hard drive files are used for archival purposes because of the file's portability. Virtual hard drive files are normally attached to virtual machines (VMs), and function as system or data drives for the VM. Like a physical hard drive, a virtual hard drive file contains a file system, and it can contain an operating system, applications and data. Now click "Refresh" in Virtual Media Manager.A virtual hard drive file is a container file that acts similar to a physical hard drive. The VDI file will be resized within a second: Tip: You can see the path to your VDI file in Virtual Media Manager: Note: The size above is expressed in megabytes so 30 x 1024 = 30720.Ĭorrect the path portion to match the actual path in your environment. The command will be the same: VBoxManage modifyhd "c:\Virtualbox VMs\Arch VM\Arch VM.vdi" -resize 30720 See the following article: All ways to open the command prompt in Windows 10, and the part "Run the command prompt directly from Explorer". Under Windows, you need to open a new command prompt window in the folder C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox. Under Linux: VBoxManage modifyhd '/home/user/Arch VM/Arch VM.vdi' -resize 30720
To do this, issue the command similar to the command below. Right now, its HDD size has a capacity of 20 GB: The command line syntax is as follows: VBoxManage modifyhd path_to_vdi_file.vdi -resize desrired_size_in_megabytesįor example, let's resize the disk drive connected to my Arch Linux virtual machine. This tool can be used to resize VirtualBox HDD images.
For example, using VBoxManage you can adjust the BIOS date and time for virtual machines. VirtualBox ships with a console tool VBoxManage, which can do a lot of tasks not accessible from the user interface.
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