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I have a Windows7 virtual machine running on Ubuntu 16.04 host. I ran out of hard disk space on my Windows guest. I tried resizing the disk size from my host as follows
VBoxManage modifyhd Win7-64bit.vdi --resize 66070
Initially the size of the vdi file was 56070M.
However when I open the virtual machine settings and go to Storage settings this is what I see.
The Virtual Size has actually increased to 64.52 GB. However Actual Size has not (it is still 54.95 GB)
What is the difference between virtual size and actual size.Do I need to do something more to increase the actual size? If so what is that?
liv2hak
Posted 2017-10-11T18:44:03.380
Reputation: 496
Did you forget to extended the partition within the OS? "What is the difference between virtual size and actual size" - virtual is how large the virtual HDD can store, the actual size is how large the virtual hdd file actually is. – Ramhound – 2017-10-11T18:50:26.073
Open Windows7 guest and extend system partition in it with Disk Management. – Biswapriyo – 2017-10-11T19:09:36.127