• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Is There A Way To Increase Disk Size in VirtualBox On An OS?

Joined
Dec 9, 2009
Messages
646 (0.11/day)
Location
South East, United Kingdom
System Name Swag
Processor Intel Xeon E3110 4GHz
Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L
Cooling Scythe Infinity I Push-Pull w/ AS5
Memory 2x2GB Transcend 800MHz DDR2 @ 890MHz 1.9v
Video Card(s) Palit nVIDIA GTX460 1GB 800/1600/2000
Storage Crucial M4 64GB
Display(s) LG Flatron M1917TM 1280x1024 @ 60Hz
Audio Device(s) Realtek HD Audio
Power Supply OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W
Software Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
I've tried googling but so many of the methods seem really complicated. I chose 'dynamically expanding' storage because I thought it would expand when I was running low on space... but clearly not :| So what a pointless option that is :/

But I really need to install updates and graphics drivers but I don't have enough bloody room, grrrr

Does anybody know of any simple ways to get this done? THanks (:
 
virtualbox website has all your answers. you should check there first before creating a brand new thread on pretty much the same topic. also, use the search function in these forums. you would be amazed what you can find.
 
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=364

Here is the answer I found from google.

I chose 'dynamically expanding' storage because I thought it would expand when I was running low on space... but clearly not :| So what a pointless option that is :/

Just because you don't understand what the option means doesn't mean the option is useless.

Dynamically expanding means that the hard disk file on your computer only takes up as much room as it needs. So if you make a 250GB disk, but only are using 20GB of it, then the hard disk file will only be 20GB. If you didn't select dynamically expanding then the file for the disk would be 250GB no matter what.
 
Back
Top