Is it possible to split VirtualBox Hard Drive to multiple volumes?

virtualbox virtual-machine virtualization vmware-player

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Solution 1

Yes it is possible, though you need to use the VMDK disk format.

VBoxManage clonehd disk.vdi disk.vmdk --format VMDK --variant Split2G

This will create disk.vmdk (text file) along with a number of disk-sXXX.vmdk (data files). You should point your virtual machine to use the disk.vmdk file.

Solution 2

Just an idea, what if you used the command:

vboxmanage clonehd hd1.vdi hd2.vmdk --format VMDK --variant Split2G --type normal --remember

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Richard Sayakanit almost 2 years

VirtualBox hard drive usually has one or a few files when you create a drive. I think it is good because you manage only a few files. However, I have out of space of my drive. Is it possible to span over other volume like in VM player?
- Sam over 5 years
  
  Useful for transferring files between windows and linux using a standard (FAT32) USB stick
user626528 almost 8 years

Nice one. But the options "--type normal --remember" aren't recognized.
PPC about 5 years

According to forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=77767 , this works but you need to relink the newly created disk because it changed UUID. Not tested yet