Comments for PCright, Inc. http://www.pcright.com Dedicate to new and repurposed desktop P.C. support. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by Alex http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-45 Alex Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:29:22 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-45 You are my hero! Thanks so much you recovered a couple hours of my life! You are my hero! Thanks so much you recovered a couple hours of my life!

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by James http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-44 James Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:57:17 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-44 Thanks for a great article - went from 5 to 10 and fixed my life!!! Thanks agains! Thanks for a great article – went from 5 to 10 and fixed my life!!!

Thanks agains!

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by Doug Simmons http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-43 Doug Simmons Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:58:45 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-43 Holy crap. It worked. Thanks! Holy crap. It worked. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by mattack http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-42 mattack Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:03:42 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-42 Wow, that *was* easy. Thanks a ton. Really. Wow, that *was* easy. Thanks a ton. Really.

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by whynnot http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-41 whynnot Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:51:50 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-41 thanks for the great post. worked like a charm on Fedora 13. ran into some out of space issues but Easy Migrate would pause and resume with no problem. on PIIX3/4: went with the default PIIX4 and it gave me no problem on VirtualBox 3.1.8_OSE r61349 thanks for the great post. worked like a charm on Fedora 13. ran into some out of space issues but Easy Migrate would pause and resume with no problem.

on PIIX3/4: went with the default PIIX4 and it gave me no problem on VirtualBox 3.1.8_OSE r61349

]]> Comment on Free (Open Source Software) :: Purchase Orders by Ghita http://www.pcright.com/?p=10&cpage=1#comment-40 Ghita Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:53:15 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=10#comment-40 Your blog some nice! Keep up the remarkable work! Your blog some nice! Keep up the remarkable work!

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by Andrew Harkins http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-39 Andrew Harkins Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:37:26 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-39 This is pretty awesome - thanks! Was able to increase an almost-full 20 gig hard drive up to 30 gigs. Note - my original VM used PIIX4. I created the new one with PIIX3, but got blue screen of death until I switched the new one to PIIX4. This is pretty awesome – thanks!

Was able to increase an almost-full 20 gig hard drive up to 30 gigs.

Note – my original VM used PIIX4. I created the new one with PIIX3, but got blue screen of death until I switched the new one to PIIX4.

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by admin http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-34 admin Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:27:31 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-34 Thanks for the input. When GPARTED says it's bothered about something, I look for another option. I might give this a try on another system that's started to become a bit cramped. Thanks for the input.
When GPARTED says it’s bothered about something, I look for another option. I might give this a try on another system that’s started to become a bit cramped.

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by Olaf http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-33 Olaf Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:59:49 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-33 <strong>Increase disk size of NTFS formatted boot disk (incl master boot record) with linux guest (Ubuntu live-CD) and NO additional software</strong> (work or any other file format, too) This is not to confuse anybody but my version of gparted (although fairly new) does not deal with NTFS safely: When I invoked gparted (see link to discussion in comment above) to copy one partition to another virtual disk from inside a Linux guest, it offered me DOS format or any of the common Linux/Unix file system formats. <strong> That scared me away! </strong> Here's a workaround (worked well for me): Let Gparted tell you the device name of the VDI that it sees (the old cramped virtual HD and the new virgin virtual HD) - just click yourself through the devices - but then DON'T use gparted fr copying! Typically the names are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb or /dev/hda and /dev/hdb Then, from a commandline (this is the only catch - but don't be afraid it yon't bite you), issue command (from Ubuntu guest): <code> sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M </code> where /dev/sda is the old and /dev/sdb is the new disk. From other linuxes you may need to become root on the commandline first by entering <code> su </code> You can THEN use GPARTED to increase the size of the partition on /dev/sdb (typically /dev/sdb1). If however Gparted is still "irritated" and tells you it does not see the new partition properly, you may just reboot your live-linux guest. GPARTED should then be ready for you to increase the size of your NTFS partion. <strong> I realize this is not a two-liner; but it actually was done as fast as my writing this comment ! </strong> I do believe there may be somebody out there whom this helps. In any case: Good luck everybody! Olaf Increase disk size of NTFS formatted boot disk (incl master boot record) with linux guest (Ubuntu live-CD) and NO additional software (work or any other file format, too)
This is not to confuse anybody but my version of gparted (although fairly new) does not deal with NTFS safely:
When I invoked gparted (see link to discussion in comment above) to copy one partition to another virtual disk from inside a Linux guest, it offered me DOS format or any of the common Linux/Unix file system formats. That scared me away! Here’s a workaround (worked well for me):
Let Gparted tell you the device name of the VDI that it sees (the old cramped virtual HD and the new virgin virtual HD) – just click yourself through the devices – but then DON’T use gparted fr copying!
Typically the names are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb or /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
Then, from a commandline (this is the only catch – but don’t be afraid it yon’t bite you), issue command (from Ubuntu guest): sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
where /dev/sda is the old and /dev/sdb is the new disk. From other linuxes you may need to become root on the commandline first by entering su
You can THEN use GPARTED to increase the size of the partition on /dev/sdb (typically /dev/sdb1). If however Gparted is still “irritated” and tells you it does not see the new partition properly, you may just reboot your live-linux guest. GPARTED should then be ready for you to increase the size of your NTFS partion.
I realize this is not a two-liner; but it actually was done as fast as my writing this comment ! I do believe there may be somebody out there whom this helps.
In any case: Good luck everybody!
Olaf

]]> Comment on Easily increase your VirtualBox VDI size by Ajay http://www.pcright.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-16 Ajay Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:54:36 +0000 http://www.pcright.com/?p=26#comment-16 Thanks a bunch for this easy guide! I was able to add some more space to my clogged c: after reading your article. Ajay Thanks a bunch for this easy guide! I was able to add some more space to my clogged c: after reading your article.

Ajay

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