Some useful commands :-
1. To display all information about your virtual machine
VBoxManage showhdinfo "any.vmdk OR any.vdi"
Information displayed includes Logical Size, Size on disk, Storage format
(VDI/VMDK), location, format variant (Dynamic / Fixed size) and VMs using
this hard disk.
2. To clone a vmdk to vdi format
VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI source.vmdk target.vdi
3. To increase the size of a virtual machine hard disk
VBoxManage modifyhd source.vdi --resize new_size_in_MB
The VM file must be a .vdi and not .vmdk.
The .vdi must have format variant - Dynamic.
The size must be specified in MB (example - 80000 for 80GB).
(Important : - Remember to open a command window and navigate to the VirtualBox installation directory in your windows machine, before you execute the VBoxManage commands)
1. To display all information about your virtual machine
VBoxManage showhdinfo "any.vmdk OR any.vdi"
Information displayed includes Logical Size, Size on disk, Storage format
(VDI/VMDK), location, format variant (Dynamic / Fixed size) and VMs using
this hard disk.
2. To clone a vmdk to vdi format
VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI source.vmdk target.vdi
3. To increase the size of a virtual machine hard disk
VBoxManage modifyhd source.vdi --resize new_size_in_MB
The VM file must be a .vdi and not .vmdk.
The .vdi must have format variant - Dynamic.
The size must be specified in MB (example - 80000 for 80GB).
(Important : - Remember to open a command window and navigate to the VirtualBox installation directory in your windows machine, before you execute the VBoxManage commands)
