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Resizing a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox

How can I resize my Virtual Machine, it is only 10GB and I need probably 50GB for this.

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Guest [Entry]

"Consider the easiest thing to do: add another virtual hard drive. 10GB is sufficient for a ""system"" partition, even for Windows. Then you add a 50GB ""d:"" drive. In VirtualBox you just use the Virtual Media Manager, make the drive, and add it to your machine.

Advantage: you can revert it independently of the system partition. You can even wipe and reinstall the system partition and not have your ""data"" partition be affected. Another one is that you can use it in more than one virtual machine (not at once, I think), INCLUDING a Windows AND a Linux guest. Nice!

If Windows is your guest OS, 10GB is enough for Windows and any other ""uncool"" Windows programs (most) which install all kinds of stuff in the registry and in the Windows directories. Some stuff can be installed on the data partition, like graphics libraries for programs etc."