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Resize Virtual Box Disks

!! How to resize a VMWare vmdk in VirtualBox

Courtesy of Luca Borrione at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11659005/how-to-resize-a-virtualbox-vmdk-file

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

The above will resize the hard disk up to 50GB (50 * 1024MB). If you want to turn it back into a vmdk to use in VMWare?:

VBoxManage clonehd "cloned.vdi" "resized.vmdk" --format vmdk