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VirtualBox hard drive usually has one or a few files when you create a drive. I think it is good because you manage only a few files. However, I have out of space of my drive. Is it possible to span over other volume like in VM player?
Richard Sayakanit
Posted 2011-09-11T02:30:08.810
Reputation: 293
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Yes it is possible, though you need to use the VMDK disk format.
VBoxManage clonehd disk.vdi disk.vmdk --format VMDK --variant Split2G
This will create disk.vmdk (text file) along with a number of disk-sXXX.vmdk (data files). You should point your virtual machine to use the disk.vmdk file.
holmb
Posted 2011-09-11T02:30:08.810
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Just an idea, what if you used the command:
vboxmanage clonehd hd1.vdi hd2.vmdk --format VMDK --variant Split2G --type normal --remember
Jose
Posted 2011-09-11T02:30:08.810
Reputation: 29
Nice one. But the options "--type normal --remember" aren't recognized. – user626528 – 2016-09-25T07:39:48.783
According to https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=77767 , this works but you need to relink the newly created disk because it changed UUID. Not tested yet
– PPC – 2019-04-16T14:25:55.7400
VirtualBox supports .vmdk files since 2.1. So you can convert your .vdi to 2GB-parts .vmdk and open it in VirtualBox. I don't know however how about spanning the files into different disks.
jakub.g
Posted 2011-09-11T02:30:08.810
Reputation: 4 332
Useful for transferring files between windows and linux using a standard (FAT32) USB stick – Sam – 2019-02-22T13:03:19.087