Virtual disk size can be increased while a virtual machine is running. Some conditions must be met before you resize a virtual disk and the partitions on that disk.
Using diskpart on the Windows installation medium. Expanding a virtual disk in VMware Workstation. Using diskpart to extend Windows partitions:. Using the Disk Management snap-in in the Windows guest. Expanding a virtual disk in vSphere Client. Extending a partition in the Windows GUI:. Using parted to extend Linux partitions. Extending a Linux partition with the Disks utility. Resizing a virtual disk in the ESXi command line. This blog post explains how to extend partitions and contains the following main parts: Disk space added after you extend a virtual disk is unallocated. However, you must resize a partition manually after that. With VMware virtualization software providing flexible options to configure virtual hardware such as CPU, memory, and disk devices, you can extend the size of an existing virtual disk. Insufficient disk space on a system partition degrades performance. Later, as you’re working, you realize that performance is suffering because there’s not enough disk space. Let’s imagine this scenario: you’ve created a virtual disk, created partitions, and installed a guest operating system on one of the partitions on that virtual disk. First we need to convert the VMDK disk to a VDI disk which can be resized.By Michael Bose Increasing the Size of a Disk Partition: A How-to Guide. Of course, we can write a script for this, too, but for now we keep it simple and do it by hand. 
There is no Vagrant option to change this – and even worse: most Vagrant boxes use VMDK disks which cannot be resized! Resizing (manually) with VirtualBoxĪs Vagrant doesn’t provide any out-of-the-box functionality, we need to do the resizing “manually”. There are base images with a 10 GB disk, some with a 20 GB disk and some other with a 40 GB disk. The disk size of a VM totally depends on the base image used for the VM. Vagrant doesn’t provide any out-of-the-box option to configure or to change the disk size.
However, when it comes to resizing a disk, Vagrant is not nice to you… I spinn up a new Linux VM, already configured with the things I need and start working. Vagrant is a great tool to provision virtual machines! As I’m a passionated Windows user, Vagrant is the weapon of my choice whenever I need to use some Linux-only tools such as Docker.
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