Saturday, January 11, 2014

Increase the virtual disk from VMware And VARTUALBOX


Workstation / Player / ACE Manager / Server / GSX

To increase the virtual disk from the command line:
  1. Open a command prompt. For more information, see Opening a command or shell prompt (1003892).
  2. Navigate to the product's installation directory. For more information, see Locating the installation directory of a VMware product (1003897).
  3. Type vmware-vdiskmanager -x 100Gb vm.vmdk and press Enter.

    Note: Replace 100Gb with the actual size of virtual disk that you want. You can also specify Kb and Mb.
  4. Follow the steps in Increasing the size of a disk partition (1004071) so the guest operating system is aware of the change in disk size.
     
     
     
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    VARTUALBOX
     
    To increase the virtual disk from the command line:
     
    C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyhd (location .vdi file)--resize (40000MB) 
     
     
     

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