Showing posts with label VirtualBox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VirtualBox. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Failed to install VirtualBox additions

That problem could be solved like this
sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential make gcc automake libssl-dev linux-headers-generic autoconf checkinstall intltool libtool module-assistant perl python python3
sudo reboot
After this install VirtualBox additions as usual.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Expand Partition, Split VMDK to Multiple Files on VirtualBox

Expand Partition

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:/Program Files/Oracle

C:\Program Files\Oracle>cd VirtualBox

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage modifyhd "c:\Users\user_name\VirtualBox VMs\Windows7\Windows7-disk1.vmdk" --resize 20000
0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
VBoxManage.exe: error: Resize hard disk operation for this format is not impleme
nted yet!

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage clonehd "c:\Users\user_name\VirtualBox VMs\Windows7\Windows7-disk1.vmdk" "c:\Users\user_name\VirtualBox VMs\Windows7\Windows7-disk1.vdi" --format VDI --variant standard
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone hard disk created in format 'VDI'. UUID: fa9fd259-fe7b-4a84-90c2-e7e0a516c
5ad

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage modifyhd "c:\Users\user_name\VirtualBox VMs\Windows7\Windows7-disk1.vdi" --resize 20000
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>


Now you can expand partition in gparted. Right click on partition -> resize

Split VMDK Volume to multiple parts


C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe 
clonehd "c:\Users\UserName\VirtualBox VMs\Ubuntu\Ubuntu-disk1.vmdk" 
"c:\Users\UserName\VirtualBox VMs\Ubuntu\Ubuntu-frags.vmdk" 
--format VMDK 
--variant Split2G
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone medium created in format 'VMDK'. UUID: bc391000