Resizing disk space on vagrant box - virtualbox

Question

I'd like to give my box some more disk space. I'm trying to do this through the vagrantfile as follows:
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
# ..
config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024]
config.vm.customize ["modifyhd", :id, "--resize", 4096]
end
This gives me the error:
A customization command failed:
["modifyhd", "e87d8786-88be-4805-9c2a-45e88b8e0e56", "--resize", "4096"]
The following error was experienced:
VBoxManage: error: The given path 'e87d8786-88be-4805-9c2a-45e88b8e0e56' is not fully qualified
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Medium, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 178 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
Please fix this customization and try again.
I'm trying to piece the information together from http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/config/vm/customize.html
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvdi

Answer 1

You are sending modifyhd the UUID of the VM (provided by vagrant) while it expects the UUID of the VDI.
You will need to use the absolute path to the actual VDI file or its UUID. You can use the following command to get the UUID of the VDI: VBoxManage showhdinfo <filename> (see virtualbox - how to check what is the uuid of a vdi?)

Answer 2

I created a new disk, added and extended the older.
My Vagrantfile:
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "bseller/oracle-standard"
config.vm.define :oracle do |oracle|
oracle.vm.hostname = 'oraclebox'
oracle.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", owner: "oracle", group: "oinstall"
oracle.vm.network :private_network, ip: '192.168.33.13'
oracle.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 1521, host: 1521
oracle.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "4096"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "oraclebox"]
if !File.exist?("disk/oracle.vdi")
vb.customize [
'createhd',
'--filename', 'disk/oracle',
'--format', 'VDI',
'--size', 60200
]
vb.customize [
'storageattach', :id,
'--storagectl', "SATA",
'--port', 1, '--device', 0,
'--type', 'hdd', '--medium', 'disk/oracle.vdi'
]
end
end
oracle.vm.provision "shell", path: "shell/add-oracle-disk.sh"
oracle.vm.provision "shell", path: "shell/provision.sh"
end
end
This will create new disk in
disk
|-- oracle.vdi
shell
|-- provision.sh
Vagrantfile
and add in your box. The new disk is of 60GB
My shell provision.sh
set -e
set -x
if [ -f /etc/disk_added_date ] ; then
echo "disk already added so exiting."
exit 0
fi
sudo fdisk -u /dev/sdb <<EOF
n
p
1
t
8e
w
EOF
sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb1
sudo vgextend VolGroup /dev/sdb1
sudo lvextend -L50GB /dev/VolGroup/lv_root
sudo resize2fs /dev/VolGroup/lv_root
date > /etc/disk_added_date
This script was adapted from SHC to box bseller/oracle-standard. For full code, see my project oraclebox in GitHub

Answer 3

I've been looking at this, and I haven't found any way to actually do this directly. However, you can achieve the effect using Ansible as a provisioner. First of all, it is definitely possible with Vagrant to create and add a second disk, which you can then add and mount any way you like using Ansible.
However, Ansible also has the ability to run local commands (on the host). This is with Ansible's local_action feature. I used it here to reboot a Vagrant VM after a kernel upgrade and tell the host to wait until it has restarted, but you could use this with the command or shell actions to find the HD identifier, shutdown the VM, and configure the hard disk, then reboot. At least in theory.

Answer 4

Although the question is old but I saw no answer accepted.
The given path 'e87d8786-88be-4805-9c2a-45e88b8e0e56' is not fully qualified shows up because the UUID e87d8... is VirtualBox vm UUID, not your SATA storage disk device UUID. You an find the storage device UUID by VBoxManage showvminfo e87d8786-88be-4805-9c2a-45e88b8e0e56|grep vdi. The replace :id with the SATA storage UUID in Vagrantfile modifyhd line.
It solved my problem.

Answer 5

OK... Solved...
VBoxManage.exe wan't in my path so what I did was go to (you have to go to that path):
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
then used the command:
VBoxManage.exe modifyhd "C:\Users\MyUser\VirtualBox VMs\MachineName\HDName.vdi " --resize 20480
For 20 GB size a HD
This DON'T work:
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyhd "C:\Users\MyUser\VirtualBox VMs\MachineName\HDName.vdi " --resize 20480
You have to be in the path: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

Answer 6

You can add new disk instead.
First use virtual box GUI to add another
virtual disk
then use fdisk to create a primary disk partion
root#linux-dev:/# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 9.9 GiB, 10632560640 bytes, 20766720 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x83312a2b
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 19816447 19814400 9.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 19818494 20764671 946178 462M 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19818496 20764671 946176 462M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
root#linux-dev:/# fdisk /dev/sdb
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x5eb328b9.
Command (m for help): m
Help:
DOS (MBR)
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit nested BSD disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
Generic
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
n add a new partition
p print the partition table
t change a partition type
v verify the partition table
Misc
m print this menu
u change display/entry units
x extra functionality (experts only)
Save & Exit
w write table to disk and exit
q quit without saving changes
Create a new label
g create a new empty GPT partition table
G create a new empty SGI (IRIX) partition table
o create a new empty DOS partition table
s create a new empty Sun partition table
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5eb328b9
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (2048-41943039, default 2048):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-41943039, default 41943039):
Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 20 GiB.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5eb328b9
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 41943039 41940992 20G 83 Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Make newly created disk partition a ext4 filesystem
root#linux-dev:/# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Creating filesystem with 5242624 4k blocks and 1310720 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 0301b56a-1d80-42de-9334-cc49e4eaf7b2
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Mount the disk partition to a directory
root#linux-dev:/# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /home/chenchun
root#linux-dev:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.2G 3.3G 5.5G 38% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 74M 4.4M 70M 6% /run
tmpfs 185M 0 185M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 185M 0 185M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 372G 240G 133G 65% /vagrant
/dev/sdb1 20G 44M 19G 1% /home/chenchun