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     5  VM (virtual machines).

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     8    :local:

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    10 Virtualization projects.

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    13 VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU, Bochs, DosBox.

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    15 VirtualBox.

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    18 About VirtualBox.

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

    22                 Guest OSes support status for VirtualBox.

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    24 Copy and resize VirtualBox disk.

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

    28 and resize them to get desired size.

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    30 To copy I make a copy::

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

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    34 determine size::

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

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

    39   Accessible:           yes

    40   Logical size:         2996 MBytes

    41   Current size on disk: 1660 MBytes

    42   Type:                 normal (base)

    43   Storage format:       VDI

    44   Format variant:       dynamic default

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

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

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

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

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

    53 existing fs to free space.

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    55 VMWare.

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    58 VMWare remote graphical client.

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    60 ::

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

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