VirtualBox: How to Increase Disk Size Safely ( Windows host, Ubuntu VM with snapshots, no commands )
How to increase the disk size safely of a VM that includes snapshots. Using the program and no commands like VBoxManage. Demonstrated on a windows host and Ubuntu VM. This will only work if you have no snapshots! It's important to remove them or clone the VM like this video which is safer and can be deleted.
Skip to 0:36 to avoid the full disk size demo.
Important Requirements:
1. Clone the VM so that only the current snapshot is copied and not all the snapshots. This is an option when cloning.
2. Make sure you have a dynamically allocated .disk. Otherwise you will need to convert it to one. I'll release a tutorial on this soon.
3. Ensure the correct VM .VDI disk is increased.
4. Resize the disk within the operating system to use the free space.
Key notes: This was used on a .vdi file with a dynamically allocated disk with no snapshots!
If you have a snapshot, I recommend making a clone/copy and testing it on that.
0:00 - Demo of a full disk
0:37 - Cloning the VM with the current state
1:32 - Increasing the Disk Size
3:05 - Increase disk size within the Operating System.
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