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Attach the LiveCD to your virtual machine so that it will be booted when it starts.The remaining steps assume you can run GParted) Download systemrescuecd.iso (or any LiveCD with a Linux Distro and GParted on it.In the settings for your virtual machine (the one that previously used the OLD.vdi) you change it to use NEW.vdi.Now go back into Virtual Media Manager and add the NEW.vdi drive.VBoxManage clonehd -existing OLD.vdi NEW.vdi Clone your old (and smaller) VDI into the new (and larger) one like so using the VBox command line tool:.All you need to do is to release it, then remove it and REMEMBER to “Keep” the hard disk image when you do that! You have to do this otherwise the next step will fail.

Release and Remove your old harddrive from VBox’ grasp using the Virtual Media Manager.

NOTE: Again I didn’t create the new disk as dynamic, but rather as static…I don’t know if the following steps would work if it was dynamic (somehow I doubt it but if you try then please let me know how it went…).

Create a new harddrive using the Virtual Media Manager in VBox and make sure it’s the size you want.

(Note that I didn’t originally create it using the “dynamically expanding storage” option in VBox and if I had I might not be in this predicament but there you go.) As I installed more and more apps into my Win7 Virtual Machine I started running out of disk space so here follows a brief explanation of what I did (and do) when I need it (the VDI…) to grow. Bless Office for the Mac but it sucks and I really need Excel to work with VB and the Data Analysis add-on… I use VirtualBox for lots of things, not the least to be able to use Microsoft Office for Windows on my work laptop, which is a Mac.

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