We offer images for both architectures 32bit and 64bit, you can download for free for both architectures. From here you can download and attach the VDI image to your VirtualBox and use it. Windows XP started up ' chkdsk ' as it noticed something had changed :-) I had no errors or issues, and examination of drive C: showed it was now 80GB in size.We offer open-source (Linux/Unix) virtual machines (VDIs) for VirtualBox, we install and make them ready-to-use VirtualBox images for you. I shut down the machine, removed the ISO image from the Storage menu, and restarted it. After clicking extend, it only took a few seconds to complete.

I chose the partition, and clicked 'Resize' and typed in the full size of the disk (81920 MB). I could see my 80GB disk with a 10GB NTFS partition on it. I also made sure the virtual CD-ROM was in the boot order before the VDI image.Īfter starting the machine, the GParted interface eventually booted. I downloaded the free GParted Live CD ISO image and attached it to my virtual machine using the Settings and Storage menu on Virtual Box. You need to boot something else to modify the partition. Because I only have one partition which has the operating system and all my data, you can't do this from within Windows XP itself. We need to extend the NTFS partition into the new space we made.

Extend the NTFS partition: Although you've extended the physical disk image, Windows XP still only thinks it has 10GB because the original partition on the disk was 10GB.

VBoxManage modifyhd '$HOME/VirtualBox VMs/WinXP.vdi' 81920 This is the command I used to increase it to ~80GB: You do not need to ' sudo ' or be root as the files are all owned by you. On Ubuntu you use the ' VBoxManage ' command to do this.

Locate the disk image: On Ubuntu, VirtualBox stores your machine data in ' $HOME/VirtualBox VMs ' by default.

Virtual operating system: Windows XP SP3.Aim: Grow my disk image storage from 10GB to 80GB.

Fortunately, VDI disk images can be increased in size, but my Googling resulted in a variety of methods which were all a bit confusing, so this post summarises what I had to do for my exact situation, which I didn't come across anywhere else. I originally created a 10GB virtual disk image, but soon realised that wasn't enough space if I wanted to also backup the 64GB iPad completely. To do this I use the excellent VirtualBox software to run an Windows XP virtual machine within Ubuntu. My desktop computer runs Ubuntu Linux (on a Mac Mini!), but sometimes I am forced to use Microsoft Word to edit a document that LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer can't handle, or use iTunes ( ech.) to fix the kids' iPad.

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