Converting virtual disks between fixed and dynamic size
You can convert a dynamic sized VDI or VMDK into a fixed (and faster) fixed size disk when you deploy your VM using VirtualBox tools.
VBoxManage clonehd dynamic.vdi fixed.vdi --variant Fixed...and if you need to resize the disk you can use:
VBoxManage modifyhd fixed.vdi --resize [megabytes]Written by Leonardo Koch Kewitz
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Actually, the --resize flag for modifyhd only works for dynamically-allocated VDI's.
From the documentation: This currently works only for VDI and VHD formats, and only for the dynamically allocated variants.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvdi
over 1 year ago
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@cglinka Hey, thanks! Since i wrote this a long time ago i'm not certain anymore, tho i really think that worked for me running VBox on Windows 7.
over 1 year ago
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vdi output is default, add --format VMDK as option if you need vmdk output
over 1 year ago
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