VirtualBox Operations

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Virtual Machine Deletion

Power down.

Right click -> Remove.

Delete all files. This removes everything under ~/VirtualBox VMs/<machine-name>.

Creating and Installing a new Virtual Disk

Select the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and stop It.

Settings -> Storage -> Controller: SATA -> HD Icon + -> Create new disk -> VDI -> Size Dynamically Allocated.

Detected by the OS as /dev/sdb.

This device then can be added to an existing Volume Group (see Linux Logical Volume Management Concepts), or it can be initialized with a different Volume Groups, etc.

Resizing an Existing Virtual Disk

Select the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and stop It.

Go to the host directory where VirtualBox maintains the file:

cd /Users/ovidiu/VirtualBox VMs/Windows/Windows10

Copy the .vdi file as a precaution:

cp Windows10.vdi  Windows10.vdi.backup

Resize it (the space is specified in MB). The following command resizes the disk to 100 GB.

VBoxManage modifyhd Windows10.vdi --resize 102400

The size does not get modified right away, but the disk will grow as needed.

After I've done this, I have not seen any change in the Windows guest, the file system has the same size. What to do next? I ended up #Creating_and_Installing_a_new_Virtual_Disk. However, a possibility is to Right Click on Start -> Disk Management -> select the partition that was just resized -> right click -> Extend Volume.

Getting Information about a Guest

Guest window -> Machine -> Session Information.

Managing an Environment from Command Line

VirtualBox Managing an Environment from Command Line

Restoring a VM from a Snapshot

TODO.

More about snapshots:

VirtualBox Snapshots

VirtualBox Virtual Machine and Linux O/S Clone

VirtualBox Virtual Machine and Linux O/S Clone