Is there an easy way to increase virtual hard disk space on VirtualBox? I have.vmdk files – chobo2 Aug 2 '12 at 21:45. @fikovnik I managed to modifyhd to a larger number and I can clearly see it in the virtualbox manager the disk size has increased, however, i cannot see the extra space disk after i booted into gparted, weird.
RECOMMENDED:Oracle VM is one of the best and widely used free virtualization software. While there are a couple of virtual machine software around and some of them even offer a few features that aren’t available in VirtualBox, this free virtualization software from Oracle is beats it competitors when it comes to overall performance, stability, and total number of features.While creating a new virtual machine, VirtualBox allows you configure the size of the virtual machine and also some other settings. However, once a virtual hard drive is created, you can’t easily alter its size. One of the downsides of VirtualBox is that it doesn’t allow you easily resize a virtual drive even via its settings.How to increase VirtualBox disk size in Windows.
As of now, there is neither a software nor an easier way to increase VirtualBox’s disk size in Windows. However, you can use Command Prompt to increase the VirtualBox disk size. Follow the given below instructions to increase the disk size of VirtualBox in Windows.NOTE: We suggest you create a backup of your existing virtual drive (create a copy of that virtual drive) before trying to increase its size. Also note that the drive where VirtualBox disk is located must have enough free space in order to increase the disk space of VirtualBox.Step 1: Open Command Prompt. To do this, open Run dialog box by simultaneously pressing Windows logo and R keys, type CMD in the box, and then press Enter key. Alternatively, you can type CMD in Start menu search box (Windows 7/Vista) or in Start screen (Windows 8 and above) and press enter key to open Command Prompt.Step 2: In the Command Prompt, type the following command and press enter key.cd C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxIn the above command, replace “C” with your Windows installation drive’s drive letter.Step 3: Next, find out the exact location of the virtual hard drive that you wish to increase. Usually, it’s located in VirtualBox folder located under Documents.
.Oracle VM VirtualBox can use large image files on a real hard disk andpresent them to a guest as a virtual hard disk. This is the mostcommon method, described in.iSCSI storage servers can be attached to Oracle VM VirtualBox. This isdescribed in.You can allow a virtual machine to access one of your host disksdirectly. This is an advanced feature, described in.Each such virtual storage device, such as an image file, iSCSItarget, or physical hard disk, needs to be connected to the virtualhard disk controller that Oracle VM VirtualBox presents to a virtualmachine.
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This is explained in the next section.IDE (ATA) controllers are abackwards compatible yet very advanced extension of the diskcontroller in the IBM PC/AT (1984). Initially, this interfaceworked only with hard disks, but was later extended to alsosupport CD-ROM drives and other types of removable media. Inphysical PCs, this standard uses flat ribbon parallel cableswith 40 or 80 wires. Each such cable can connect two devicesto a controller, which have traditionally been calledmaster and slave.Typical PCs had two connectors for such cables. As a result,support for up to four IDE devices was most common.In Oracle VM VirtualBox, each virtual machine may have one IDEcontroller enabled, which gives you up to four virtual storagedevices that you can attach to the machine. By default, one ofthese virtual storage devices, the secondary master, ispreconfigured to be the virtual machine's virtual CD/DVDdrive.
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However, you can change the default setting.Even if your guest OS has no support for SCSI or SATA devices,it should always be able to see an IDE controller.You can also select which exact type of IDE controllerhardware Oracle VM VirtualBox should present to the virtual machine:PIIX3, PIIX4, or ICH6. This makes no difference in terms ofperformance, but if you import a virtual machine from anothervirtualization product, the OS in that machine may expect aparticular controller type and crash if it is not found.After you have created a new virtual machine with theNew Virtual Machine wizard ofthe graphical user interface, you will typically see one IDEcontroller in the machine'sStorage settings. The virtualCD/DVD drive will be attached to one of the four ports of thiscontroller.Serial ATA (SATA) is a newerstandard introduced in 2003. Compared to IDE, it supports bothmuch higher speeds and more devices per controller. Also, withphysical hardware, devices can be added and removed while thesystem is running.
The standard interface for SATA controllersis called Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI).Like a real SATA controller, Oracle VM VirtualBox's virtual SATAcontroller operates faster and also consumes fewer CPUresources than the virtual IDE controller. Also, this enablesyou to connect up to 30 virtual hard disks to one machineinstead of just three, when compared to the Oracle VM VirtualBox IDEcontroller with a DVD drive attached.For this reason, depending on the selected guest OS,Oracle VM VirtualBox uses SATA as the default for newly createdvirtual machines. One virtual SATA controller is created bydefault, and the default disk that is created with a new VM isattached to this controller. WarningThe entire SATA controller and the virtual disks attached toit, including those in IDE compatibility mode, will not beseen by OSes that do not have device support for AHCI. Inparticular, there is no support for AHCI inWindows before Windows Vista. So Windows XP, evenSP3, will not see such disks unless you install additionaldrivers.
It is possible to switch from IDE to SATA afterinstallation by installing the SATA drivers and changing thecontroller type in the VMSettings dialog.Oracle VM VirtualBox recommends the Intel Matrix Storage drivers,which can be downloaded from.To add a SATA controller to a machine for which it has notbeen enabled by default, either because it was created by anearlier version of Oracle VM VirtualBox, or because SATA is notsupported by default by the selected guest OS, do thefollowing. Go to the Storagepage of the machine'sSettings dialog, clickAdd Controller under theStorage Tree box and then select AddSATA Controller. The new controller appears as aseparate PCI device in the virtual machine, and you can addvirtual disks to it.To change the IDE compatibility mode settings for the SATAcontroller, see.SCSI is another establishedindustry standard, standing for Small Computer SystemInterface. SCSI was standardized as early as 1986 as a genericinterface for data transfer between all kinds of devices,including storage devices. Today SCSI is still used forconnecting hard disks and tape devices, but it has mostly beendisplaced in commodity hardware. It is still in common use inhigh-performance workstations and servers.Primarily for compatibility with other virtualizationsoftware, Oracle VM VirtualBox optionally supports LSI Logic andBusLogic SCSI controllers, to each of which up to 15 virtualhard disks can be attached.To enable a SCSI controller, on theStorage page of a virtualmachine's Settings dialog,click Add Controller underthe Storage Tree box and then select AddSCSI Controller. The new controller appears as aseparate PCI device in the virtual machine.
WarningAs with the other controller types, a SCSI controller willonly be seen by OSes with device support for it. Windows2003 and later ships with drivers for the LSI Logiccontroller, while Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 ships withdrivers for the BusLogic controller. Windows XP ships withdrivers for neither.Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) isanother bus standard which uses the SCSI command set.
Asopposed to SCSI, however, with physical devices, serial cablesare used instead of parallel ones, which simplifies physicaldevice connections. In some ways, therefore, SAS is to SCSIwhat SATA is to IDE: it enables more reliable and fasterconnections.To support high-end guests which require SAS controllers,Oracle VM VirtualBox emulates a LSI Logic SAS controller, which canbe enabled much the same way as a SCSI controller. At thistime, up to eight devices can be connected to the SAScontroller. WarningAs with SATA, the SAS controller will only be seen by OSeswith device support for it. In particular, thereis no support for SAS in Windows before WindowsVista. So Windows XP, even SP3, will not see suchdisks unless you install additional drivers.The USB mass storage deviceclass is a standard to connect external storagedevices like hard disks or flash drives to a host through USB.All major OSes support these devices for a long time and shipgeneric drivers making third-party drivers superfluous.
Inparticular, legacy OSes without support for SATA controllersmay benefit from USB mass storage devices.The virtual USB storage controller offered by Oracle VM VirtualBoxworks differently to the other storage controller types. Whilemost storage controllers appear as a single PCI device to theguest with multiple disks attached to it, the USB-basedstorage controller does not appear as virtual storagecontroller. Each disk attached to the controller appears as adedicated USB device to the guest. WarningBooting from drives attached using USB is only supportedwhen EFI is used as the BIOS lacks USB support.Non volatile memory express(NVMe) is a standard which emerged in 2011 forconnecting non volatile memory (NVM) directly over PCI expressto lift the bandwidth limitation of the previously used SATAprotocol for SSDs. Unlike other standards the command set isvery simple to achieve maximum throughput and is notcompatible with ATA or SCSI.
OSes need to support NVMe devicesto make use of them. For example, Windows 8.1 added nativeNVMe support. For Windows 7, native support was added with anupdate.The NVMe controller is part of the extension pack.Four slots attached to the traditional IDE controller, whichare always present. One of these is typically a virtual CD/DVDdrive.30 slots attached to the SATA controller, if enabled andsupported by the guest OS.15 slots attached to the SCSI controller, if enabled andsupported by the guest OS.Eight slots attached to the SAS controller, if enabled andsupported by the guest OS.Eight slots attached to the virtual USB controller, if enabledand supported by the guest OS.Up to 255 slots attached to the NVMe controller, if enabledand supported by the guest OS.Given this large choice of storage controllers, you may not knowwhich one to choose.
In general, you should avoid IDE unless it isthe only controller supported by your guest. Whether you use SATA,SCSI, or SAS does not make any real difference. The variety ofcontrollers is only supplied by Oracle VM VirtualBox for compatibilitywith existing hardware and other hypervisors.
5.2. Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD)Disk image files reside on the host system and are seen by theguest systems as hard disks of a certain geometry. When a guest OSreads from or writes to a hard disk, Oracle VM VirtualBox redirects therequest to the image file.Like a physical disk, a virtual disk has a size, or capacity,which must be specified when the image file is created.
As opposedto a physical disk however, Oracle VM VirtualBox enables you to expandan image file after creation, even if it has data already. See.Oracle VM VirtualBox supports the following types of disk image files. Normally, Oracle VM VirtualBoxuses its own container format for guest hard disks.
This iscalled a Virtual Disk Image (VDI) file. This format is usedwhen you create a new virtual machine with a new disk.VMDK. Oracle VM VirtualBox alsofully supports the popular and open VMDK container format thatis used by many other virtualization products, such as VMware.VHD. Oracle VM VirtualBox alsofully supports the VHD format used by Microsoft.HDD.
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Image files of Parallelsversion 2 (HDD format) are also supported.Due to lack of documentation of the format, newer versionssuch as 3 and 4 are not supported. You can however convertsuch image files to version 2 format using tools provided byParallels.Irrespective of the disk capacity and format, as mentioned in, there are two options forcreating a disk image: fixed-size or dynamically allocated. If you create afixed-size image, an image file will be created on your hostsystem which has roughly the same size as the virtual disk'scapacity. So, for a 10 GB disk, you will have a 10 GB file.Note that the creation of a fixed-size image can take a longtime depending on the size of the image and the writeperformance of your hard disk.Dynamically allocated.
Formore flexible storage management, use a dynamically allocatedimage. This will initially be very small and not occupy anyspace for unused virtual disk sectors, but will grow everytime a disk sector is written to for the first time, until thedrive reaches the maximum capacity chosen when the drive wascreated. While this format takes less space initially, thefact that Oracle VM VirtualBox needs to expand the image fileconsumes additional computing resources, so until the diskfile size has stabilized, write operations may be slower thanwith fixed size disks. However, after a time the rate ofgrowth will slow and the average penalty for write operationswill be negligible. NoteAlways use the Virtual Media Manager or theVBoxManage modifymedium command to move adisk image.If you use a file management feature of the host OS to movea disk image to a new location, run the VBoxManagemodifymedium -setlocationcommand to configure the new path of the disk image on thehost file system. This command updates the Oracle VM VirtualBoxconfiguration automatically.Remove an image from theregistry.
You can optionally delete the image file whenremoving the image.Release an image to detach itfrom a VM. This action only applies if the image is currentlyattached to a VM as a virtual hard disk.View and edit the Propertiesof a disk image.Available properties include the following.Type: Specifies thesnapshot behavior of the disk. See.Location: Specifies thelocation of the disk image file on the host system. Youcan use a file dialog to browse for the disk imagelocation.Description: Specifies ashort description of the disk image.Size: Specifies the sizeof the disk image. You can use the slider to increase ordecrease the disk image size.Information: Specifiesdetailed information about the disk image.Refresh the property valuesof the selected disk image.To perform these actions, highlight the medium in the VirtualMedia Manager and then do one of the following. 5.4. Special Image Write ModesFor each virtual disk image supported by Oracle VM VirtualBox, you candetermine separately how it should be affected by write operationsfrom a virtual machine and snapshot operations.
This applies toall of the aforementioned image formats (VDI, VMDK, VHD, or HDD)and irrespective of whether an image is fixed-size or dynamicallyallocated.By default, images are in normal mode. Tomark an existing image with one of the non-standard modes listedbelow, use VBoxManage modifyhd.
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Alternatively, useVBoxManage to attach the image to a VM and usethe -mtype argument. See.The available virtual disk image modes are as follows.Normal images have norestrictions on how guests can read from and write to thedisk.
This is the default image mode.When you take a snapshot of your virtual machine as describedin, the state of a normal harddisk is recorded together with the snapshot, and whenreverting to the snapshot, its state will be fully reset.The image file itself is not reset. Instead, when a snapshotis taken, Oracle VM VirtualBox 'freezes' the image file and nolonger writes to it. For the write operations from the VM, asecond, differencing image file iscreated which receives only the changes to the original image.See.While you can attach the same normal image to more than onevirtual machine, only one of these virtual machines attachedto the same image file can be executed simultaneously, asotherwise there would be conflicts if several machines writeto the same image file.Write-through hard disks arecompletely unaffected by snapshots. Their state isnot saved when a snapshot is taken, andnot restored when a snapshot is restored.Shareable hard disks are avariant of write-through hard disks. In principle they behaveexactly the same.
Their state is notsaved when a snapshot is taken, and not restored when asnapshot is restored. The difference only shows if you attachsuch disks to several VMs. Shareable disks may be attached toseveral VMs which may run concurrently. This makes themsuitable for use by cluster filesystems between VMs andsimilar applications which are explicitly prepared to access adisk concurrently. Only fixed size images can be used in thisway, and dynamically allocated images are rejected.
WarningThis is an expert feature, and misuse can lead to data loss,as regular filesystems are not prepared to handlesimultaneous changes by several parties.Immutable images onlyremember write accesses temporarily while the virtual machineis running. All changes are lost when the virtual machine ispowered on the next time. As a result, as opposed to Normalimages, the same immutable image can be used with severalvirtual machines without restrictions.Creating an immutable image makes little sense since it wouldbe initially empty and lose its contents with every machinerestart. You would have a disk that is always unformatted whenthe machine starts up. Instead, you can first create a normalimage and then later mark it as immutable when you decide thatthe contents are useful.If you take a snapshot of a machine with immutable images,then on every machine power-up, those images are reset to thestate of the last (current) snapshot, instead of the state ofthe original immutable image.
NoteAs a special exception, immutable images arenot reset if they are attached to amachine in a saved state or whose last snapshot was takenwhile the machine was running. This is called anonline snapshot. As a result, if themachine's current snapshot is an online snapshot, itsimmutable images behave exactly like the a normal image.
Toreenable the automatic resetting of such images, delete thecurrent snapshot of the machine.Oracle VM VirtualBox never writes to an immutable image directly atall. All write operations from the machine are directed to adifferencing image. The next time the VM is powered on, thedifferencing image is reset so that every time the VM starts,its immutable images have exactly the same content.The differencing image is only reset when the machine ispowered on from within Oracle VM VirtualBox, not when you reboot byrequesting a reboot from within the machine. This is also whyimmutable images behave as described above when snapshots arealso present, which use differencing images as well.If the automatic discarding of the differencing image on VMstartup does not fit your needs, you can turn it off using theautoreset parameter of VBoxManagemodifyhd. See.Multiattach mode images canbe attached to more than one virtual machine at the same time,even if these machines are running simultaneously. For eachvirtual machine to which such an image is attached, adifferencing image is created.
As a result, data that iswritten to such a virtual disk by one machine is not seen bythe other machines to which the image is attached. Eachmachine creates its own write history of the multiattachimage.Technically, a multiattach image behaves identically to animmutable image except the differencing image is not resetevery time the machine starts.This mode is useful for sharing files which are almost neverwritten, for instance picture galleries, where every guestchanges only a small amount of data and the majority of thedisk content remains unchanged.
The modified blocks are storedin differencing images which remain relatively small and theshared content is stored only once at the host.Read-only images are usedautomatically for CD/DVD images, since CDs/DVDs can never bewritten to.The following scenario illustrates the differences between thevarious image modes, with respect to snapshots.Assume you have installed your guest OS in your VM, and you havetaken a snapshot. Later, your VM is infected with a virus and youwould like to go back to the snapshot. With a normal hard diskimage, you simply restore the snapshot, and the earlier state ofyour hard disk image will be restored as well and your virusinfection will be undone. With an immutable hard disk, all ittakes is to shut down and power on your VM, and the virusinfection will be discarded.
With a write-through image however,you cannot easily undo the virus infection by means ofvirtualization, but will have to disinfect your virtual machinelike a real computer.You might find write-through images useful if you want to preservecritical data irrespective of snapshots. As you can attach morethan one image to a VM, you may want to have one immutable imagefor the OS and one write-through image for your data files. 5.5. Differencing ImagesThe previous section mentioned differencing images and how theyare used with snapshots, immutable images, and multiple diskattachments. This section describes in more detail howdifferencing images work.A differencing image is a special disk image that only holds thedifferences to another image. A differencing image by itself isuseless, it must always refer to another image. The differencingimage is then typically referred to as achild, which holds the differences to itsparent.When a differencing image is active, it receives all writeoperations from the virtual machine instead of its parent.
Thedifferencing image only contains the sectors of the virtual harddisk that have changed since the differencing image was created.When the machine reads a sector from such a virtual hard disk, itlooks into the differencing image first. If the sector is present,it is returned from there. If not, Oracle VM VirtualBox looks into theparent. In other words, the parent becomesread-only.
It is never written to again, butit is read from if a sector has not changed.Differencing images can be chained. If another differencing imageis created for a virtual disk that already has a differencingimage, then it becomes a grandchild of theoriginal parent. The first differencing image then becomesread-only as well, and write operations only go to thesecond-level differencing image.
When reading from the virtualdisk, Oracle VM VirtualBox needs to look into the second differencingimage first, then into the first if the sector was not found, andthen into the original image.There can be an unlimited number of differencing images, and eachimage can have more than one child. As a result, the differencingimages can form a complex tree with parents, siblings, andchildren, depending on how complex your machine configuration is.Write operations always go to the one activedifferencing image that is attached to the machine, and for readoperations, Oracle VM VirtualBox may need to look up all the parents inthe chain until the sector in question is found. You can view sucha tree in the Virtual Media Manager. When you create asnapshot, as explained in the previous section, Oracle VM VirtualBox'freezes' the images attached to the virtual machine andcreates differencing images for each image that is not in'write-through' mode. From the point of view of the virtualmachine, the virtual disks continue to operate before, but allwrite operations go into the differencing images.