Oracle Virtualbox 增加虚拟磁盘空间

VirtualBox 4.0 got a very cool new feature that allows you to easily resize a hard disk in just a few seconds. Previously, you had to install Gparted to do this and the procedure was quite slow.

 

In VirtualBox 4.0+ (see how to install VirtualBox 4.0.x in Ubuntu), to resize a VirtualBox hard disk image (.VDI) firstly locate the folder where the .vdi you want to resize is located - this should be under~/VirtualBox VMs or~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks. Then open a terminal, navigate to that folder ("cd /FOLDER/PATH") and run the following command to resize the .VDI:

VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB

 

Where YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi is the VirtualBox hard disk you want to resize and SIZE_IN_MB is the new virtual hard disk size, in megabytes. For example, the following command will resize the VirtualBox hard disk called "natty.vdi" to 12000 megabytes:

VBoxManage modifyhd natty.vdi --resize 12000

 

用Oracle virtualbox安装了虚拟的Linux系统，当时只给虚拟磁盘分配了默认了8G的空间，装了几个软件，空间就不足了，于是今天试着增加虚拟存储空间

网上搜了下，主要有两种办法

1， 利用GParted,创建一个新的虚拟磁盘(vdi)，给定需要的大小，然后，用Gparted将旧的虚拟磁盘的东西拷到新的上面，然后用新的替换旧的磁盘

2， 第二种就是，以上所述，简单方便。直接利用vboxmanage这个程序，直接在host上对vdi大小进行调整，这个程序就在virtualbox安装目录下

D:\app\VirtualBox\fedora>D:\app\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe modifyhd fedora.vdi --resize 20000

0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

 

D:\app\VirtualBox\fedora>

Fedora.vid就是我的虚拟机的磁盘文件，执行完后，查看vdi大小，已经变成20GB了

 

待续...., 因为登陆到Fedora发现，那些未分配的空间，因为上一步，只是增加它的容量，并没有挂载到系统上，下一步，将是处理未分配的空间....