Resizing VirtualBox disk

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/05/2011 04:57 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 02:21 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>>> VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk
>>> '/media/extbara160/david/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXPPro.vdi'
>>> {f92bed62-be92-4322-b278-adda513d3f4b} because a hard disk
>>> '/home/david/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXPPro.vdi' with UUID
>>> {f92bed62-be92-4322-b278-adda513d3f4b} already exists
>> What happens if you remove WinXPPro.vdi from the disk image manager (u=
nregister) and then try to clone it?
> Ha!  That was it.  Thank you.
>
> Funny story: I only had 12MB left on the VM.  Windows XP doesn't come
> with a partition resizing tool, and I didn't have enough disk space lef=
t
> to install one ;)  I had to move a bunch of folders temporarily to an
> external hard drive so I could install the tool to resize the partition=
=2E
>  Being windows I had to reboot a few times, but I'm up and running now.=

>
Have you looked at the VBOX FAQ:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=3D29276#29276

I've moved some of my VDIs around to a removable HD, but I have not
resized it.


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