VirtualBox: Add HD

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  1. Add Drive

From the Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager window, select the Virtual Box and click on Settings.

Go to Storage, select hard drive and click on Add a hard disk.

Click on Create New Disk.

  1. List Partitions
fdisk -l

Iidentify which hard drive you need to partition

fdisk /dev/sdb
  1. Format the Partition
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
  1. Mount the partition
mount /dev/sdb1 /path/to/mount
  1. Add fstab entry
$ nano /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1               /path/to/mount           ext4    defaults        1 2

Resize HD[edit]

vmdk[edit]

VBoxManage clonehd "source.vmdk" "cloned.vdi" --format vdi
VBoxManage modifyhd "cloned.vdi" --resize 51200
VBoxManage clonehd "cloned.vdi" "resized.vmdk" --format vmdk

vdi[edit]

VBoxManage modifyhd "E:\VirtualBox VMs\Kali\Kali-disk001_1.vdi" --resize 81920