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     5  VM (virtual machines).

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     9 VirtualBox.

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    12 About VirtualBox.

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    15   http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes

    16                 Guest OSes support status for VirtualBox.

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    18 Copy and resize VirtualBox disk.

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    21 I have clear copies of several OSes for VirtualBox. When I need new one I copy

    22 and resize them to get desired size.

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    24 To copy I make a copy::

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    26   $ vboxmanage clonehd /path/to/Hurd.vdi /path/to/Hurd-new.vdi

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    28 determine size::

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    30   $ vboxmanage showhdinfo /path/to/Hurd-new.vdi

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    32   UUID:                 63b87983-3130-4db3-cd8c-6d693dcfd92b

    33   Accessible:           yes

    34   Logical size:         2996 MBytes

    35   Current size on disk: 1660 MBytes

    36   Type:                 normal (base)

    37   Storage format:       VDI

    38   Format variant:       dynamic default

    39   In use by VMs:        Hurd (UUID: f7591848-2c60-4c7c-3886-b66bdb35e425)

    40   Location:             /path/to/Hurd-new.vdi

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    42 and then apply new size (in MiB)::

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    44   $ vboxmanage modifyhd --resize 35000 /path/to/Hurd-new.vdi

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    46 Next I mount ``parted-magic`` and boot to it and use ``gparted`` to extend

    47 existing fs to free space.

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    49 VMWare.

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    52 VMWare remote graphical client.

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    54 ::

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    56   $ vmware-vmrc.exe -h 192.168.1.2 -u user -p passwd "dir/file.vmx"

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