Step 5: If you are running a Windows OS which supports Disk Management > Extend Volume then the guest OS will recognize the size of extended hard disk. Step 4: Remove the attached vmdk file in vm and add the newly converted vmdk file. Step 3: Convert the resized vdi file to a new vmdk file (so that the original file serves as backup) Step 2: Resize vdi file to required hard drive size Step 1: Convert vmdk file to vdi (if you are using vmdk as hard drive) These are notes which I used to perform a hard disk extension in Ubuntu host for a Windows Vista is guest/vm. When you boot into Ubuntu and open the terminal, type df -h and you should see the newly added hard drive space.This post is due to lack of clear instructions available where I searched for. Alternatively, you can remove gparted if you want.ĩ) See the new changes in disk space. You want to start Ubuntu this time, not Gparted. The ‘Primary Master’ will be the iso which boots when you start a Virtual Machine. Change ‘VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ to your ‘Primary Master’. Select ‘Settings’ >Storage and change Gparted from ‘Primary Master’ to something else.
In this example, the machine is called Ubuntu resize Dec1. make sure to run the operation.Ĩ) Now, go back to your list of Virtaulbox machines and select your Virtual machine.
Make sure to run the operation.Ĭ) Select partition /dev/sda1 >Resize / Move > Make sure to run the operation.ī) Delete dev/sda2 extended partition from dev/sda > Select Apply.
Now, here is where things get interesting because you want to increase the sda1 partition.Ī) Delete the Logical partition (swap) > Select Apply. When Gparted opens, you will see the new unallocated space. Just hit ‘Enter’ on the keyboard after selecting your options. A) Select you language and all that jazz, Enlish may be somthing like 02 and your ‘GUI’ view may be something like ‘0’.
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