Solved How to increase disk space through vboxmanager?

[jeltoesolnce]

Hello.

[sailorsamoor@r8 ~/VirtualBoxVMs/1C]% vboxmanage showhdinfo 1C-disk001.vmdk        
UUID:           96e5ff9b-a054-4ff5-a12a-e7e5cc8ea05a
Parent UUID:    base
State:          created
Type:           normal (base)
Location:       /usr/home/sailorsamoor/VirtualBoxVMs/1C/1C-disk001.vmdk
Storage format: VMDK
Format variant: dynamic default
Capacity:       8192 MBytes
Size on disk:   2679 MBytes
Encryption:     disabled
In use by VMs:  1C (UUID: 692c6dd6-0c36-4f75-97e9-daf52d5a3382)
[sailorsamoor@r8 ~/VirtualBoxVMs/1C]%

[sailorsamoor@r8 ~/VirtualBoxVMs/1C]% vboxmanage modifyhd 1C-disk001.vmdk --resize 16342
0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
VBoxManage: error: Failed to resize medium
VBoxManage: error: Resizing to new size 17135828992 is not yet supported for medium '/usr/home/sailorsamoor/VirtualBoxVMs/1C/1C-disk001.vmdk'
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0009), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleModifyMedium(HandlerArg *)" at line 816 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
[sailorsamoor@r8 ~/VirtualBoxVMs/1C]%

I tried to clone hd into .vhd and try to increase - does not work.

 

[ljboiler]

Try clone to a vdi, resize, then clone back to a vmdk.