Next step, I opened a command prompt and navigated to “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox” location. I opened this location in explorer and looked for vboxmanage.exe and found it right there. To find out the location of vboxmanage, I looked up the shortcut for Oracle VM VirtualBox which was installed in “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox” for me.
Once the VDI file is created, we need to run the vboxmanage modifymedium command. The process takes about 5 to 10 minutes depending on your disk size and speed of hardware. The vmdk base image will be cloned to a VDI file. Both as shown in above screenshot.Īfter choosing the options, click copy. It is important you choose the Disk image file type as “VDI VirtualBox Disk Image” and the “Storage on physical hard disk” as “Dynamically allocated”. In the copy dialog that opens, choose the options as shown below: In the next screen choose the image you wish to clone and click copy as indicated in below screenshot: Then choose Global Tools as shown in screenshot below:
However, to actually be able to use the machine to do something, you will probably need a bit more. Now, on the RAM screen, it says 2 GB RAM is the recommended amount.
#How to resize a virtualbox vdi on mac mac os x
In the Your VM section of the code, you must type the name of your macOS virtual machine. Type in a name and make sure Type and Version are set to Mac OS X (64-bit for Version). To change the macOS display resolution in VBox, you need to use the following code. Below are the steps I took to get this done:įrom your Oracle VM VirtualBox, choose the image you want to extend the disk size for. To change the screen size of the virtual machine on VirtualBox, follow the steps below in order. When I found out were vboxmanage was located and invoked it – I noticed that the version I was using did not support a clonehd or a modifyhd command as indicated in stackoverflow.
#How to resize a virtualbox vdi on mac windows
Obviously, the exe was not in windows path and I needed to locate the file. I opened a command prompt and typed vboxmanage, windows does not know of vboxmanage.
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