The following two commands backup this virtual machine to a directory called Debian Server Backup:Ĭp -avr "Debian Server" "Debian Server Backup"
home/pragmalin/VirtualBox VMs/Debian Server/ My Debian server virtual machine resides at this location in my user’s home directory: Therefore simply copying these files already creates a backup of the entire virtual machine.
A virtual machine consists of plain files on you PC. For this reason we’d better make a backup copy of the virtual machine. Increasing the disk size of your VirtualBox virtual machine, including the partition resizing, is an invasive operation. This article takes the same Debian server virtual machine as a starting point. If you don’t yet have a virtual machine, you can follow this tutorial to create a minimal Debian server virtual machine in VirtualBox. Fear not, because this article provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to increase the disk size of your VirtualBox virtual machine. So to complete the disk size increase of your VirtualBox virtual machine, you still need to change the size of the disk partition(s). Your disk partitions still have the same size as before. However, that’s not the end of the story. Luckily, VirtualBox allows you to easily increase the size of your virtual disk. But how do you achieve this task for your VirtualBox virtual machine? But what do you do when your virtual machine runs out of disk space? On real hardware you would swap the hard disk for a larger version. Virtual machines provide a great playground for learning about and testing out all sorts of Linux related things. It provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to increase the disk size of your VirtualBox virtual machine. This article will help you along the way. Just keep in mind that afterwards you still need to increase the size of your partitions accordingly. But CentOS was not showing this.Īfter a lot of debug i found that i had a snapshot stored somewhere on the PC and this was preventing the additional disk to be shown on the CentOS.Is your VirtualBox virtual machine starting to run out of disk space? No worries, because VirtualBox allows you to easily increase the disk size of your virtual machine. The increased volume succeeded on windows side without any errors. Idea was to increase the vdi size from 60Gb to 120Gb.īut after this command, it was not directly reflecting in the Cent OS after restart (also windows restart). mnt/c/Program\ Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe modifymedium CentOSVD.vdi -resize 120000} So i used (as recommended by many sites to update this) below command:
I was trying to update my disk size on the CentOS as i had reached 100% utilisation. Using the virtualbox to launch a Cent OS.
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