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Resizing virtualbox vdi doesn't work

I tried resizing my VirtualBox disk (.vdi) with VBoxManage, but it didn't resize the hard drive. The command while in the root folder of VirtualBox was: VBoxManage modifyhd ...
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VirtualBox: VBoxManage modifyhd hosting on mac os x resize not supported

I am a complete newbie. i'm hosting VM on OS X using virtualbox. I'm trying to resize the virtual hard drive by using the following command in the terminal. VBoxManage modifyhd "<absolute path ...
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Resize partition of Windows 7 running on VirtualBox with dynamically allocated storage

I run Windows 7 inside VirtualBox. I resized the disk of Windows 7 from 25 GB to 50 GB: VBoxManage modifyhd Windows\ 7\ Pro.vdi --resize 50000 ...
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After doubling virtual disk size in VirtualBox, fdisk -l still shows old disk size in guest CentOS

I'm running CentOS 6.1 as a guest in VirtualBox 4.1.18 on a Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) host. Since 50 GB for my CentOS guest proved to be insufficient, I resolved to double its available disk space. ...
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Re sizing VirtualBox vhd with windows 7 host and windows xp client

I am stuck on one step of resizing a virtual hardisk... I followed the instruction used found in this Youtube video... Video I followed Well that worked. But my windows xp virtual still had the ...
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Ubuntu 9.10 screen resize on VirtualBox 3.2.8 on Windows Vista machine

I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my VirtualBox 3.2.8. I installed all the guess additions. The main feature of the guest additions is not working for me. That is resizing the Ubuntu on VirtualBox. I ...
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Is it possible to shrink a VirtualBox dynamic image?

When you create a Virtual Box image you can choose to create a dynamic one, which will grow as needed so that even if your image is for 20GB, if you used only 4GB, only 4GB is taken from your hard ...