How To Enlarge a Virtual Machine’s Disk in VirtualBox or VMware

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Published on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:00:53 GMT Indexed on 2012/09/16 15:41 UTC
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When you create a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox or VMware, you specify a maximum disk size. If you want more space on your virtual machine’s hard disk later, you’ll have to enlarge the virtual hard disk and partition.

Note that you may want to back up your virtual hard disk file before performing these operations – there’s always a chance something can go wrong, so it’s always good to have backups. However, the process worked fine for us.

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