Common questions 

How do I increase the size of my VirtualBox disk?

Jeremy Anderson

How do I increase the size of my VirtualBox disk?

Method 1: Using the Virtual Media Manager in VirtualBox VirtualBox 6 added a graphical option for resizing virtual disks. You can find it at the file tab of VirtualBox home page. Select one of your virtual machines in the list and use the “Size” slider or type the size value that you need. Once done click “Apply”.

How do I add storage to VirtualBox CentOS?

Add the Virtual Dirve

  1. Open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, select the virtual box which we want to add the storage, click Settings.
  2. Click Storage, Select Drive (Controller: SCSI or Controller: IDE etc.) and click Adds hard disk.
  3. Follow the instructions to enter all the details, such as disk file location, size etc.

How do I enlarge a virtual machine disk?

Right-click the virtual machine. Click Edit Settings. Select Virtual Disk. Increase the size of the disk.

How do I increase disk space on Linux virtual machine?

Extending partitions on Linux VMware virtual machines

  1. Shutdown the VM.
  2. Right click the VM and select Edit Settings.
  3. Select the hard disk you would like to extend.
  4. On the right side, make the provisioned size as large as you need it.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Power on the VM.

How do you increase the size of a Linux LVM by expanding the virtual machine disk?

How to: Extend LVM disk in VMware

  1. Step 1: Resize Disk in VMware. Shutdown the VM.
  2. Step 2: Determine the disk. Connect to the command line of the Linux VM via the console or putty session.
  3. Step 3: Provoke a re-sync of the kernel.
  4. Step 4: Delete and re-create partition.
  5. Step 5: Resize volume group.
  6. Step 6: simple.

How to increase disk size of VirtualBox virtual machine?

Luckily, VirtualBox allows you to easily increase the size of your virtual disk. However, that’s not the end of the story. Your disk partitions still have the same size as before. So to complete the disk size increase of your VirtualBox virtual machine, you still need to change the size of the disk partition (s).

How do I free up disk space on Ubuntu VirtualBox?

While there are ways to free up disk space on Ubuntu and other operating systems, a more robust way of handling the situation is to increase the disk size of your virtual machines created in VirtualBox. Yes, you can enlarge the virtual hard disk in VirtualBox even after creation.

Is your VirtualBox running out of hard drive space?

If you have already installed Linux or some other operating system like Windows or BSD into a VirtualBox virtual machine, and then realized that you are running out of hard drive space, don’t despair. VirtualBox gives us a simple way to increase the amount of hard drive space available to a virtual machine.

How do I edit a hard disk in VirtualBox?

However, if you prefer the command line or want to do the job more efficiently, scroll down to the next section below. Once you have VirtualBox opened, and your virtual machine is completely powered off, get started by opening the File menu and then Virtual Media Manager. Click on the hard disk you wish to edit.