Set storage size on creation of VM VirtualBox

Question

Is there a way to set the storage size for the VM on creating it? I will be using Vagrant, but not sure if this is something that needs to be done in VirtualBox or a setting I can include in the Vagrantfile (I checked docs but there doesn't seem to be any indication)

Answer 1

The vagrant-disksize plugin makes this easy. Create a debian-9 vm with a 20gb hard drive.

minimally:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    config.vm.box = "debian/stretch64" 
    config.disksize.size = "20GB"
end

or, using auto-install logic for the plugin:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

    required_plugins = %w( vagrant-vbguest vagrant-disksize )
    _retry = false
    required_plugins.each do |plugin|
        unless Vagrant.has_plugin? plugin
            system "vagrant plugin install #{plugin}"
            _retry=true
        end
    end

    if (_retry)
        exec "vagrant " + ARGV.join(' ')
    end

    config.vm.box = "debian/stretch64" 
    config.disksize.size = "20GB"
end

Answer 2

It's not possible unless you know the UUID of the disk in question. If you did, you would need to have the following in your Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # ... (other config)

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyhd", "disk id", "--resize", "size in megabytes"]
  end
end

where "size in megabytes" is the HD size in megabytes, and "disk id" is the UUID of the disk (not the VM)

Alternatively, you could do this via VBoxManage:

$ VBoxManage list hdds
[get the UUID of the disk in question from the output]
$ VBoxManage modifyhd [UUID] --resize [size in MiB]

Answer 3

I think Resolving some common issues of this may help you.

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And this is the essential part

Increase Disk space

Normally (sadly), cloud base box comes with VMDK disks formats. If you are lucky and your disk format is VDI, you can solve this directly like this. But, VMDK can't be expanded, so you need to add another disk to your VM. If making this manually is hard, can you imaging doing this from Vagrant? Well, now that I solved is not that difficult:

Create an script called "bootstrap.sh" on your working directory, and add these lines:

pvcreate /dev/sdb
vgextend VolGroup /dev/sdb
lvextend /dev/VolGroup/lv_root /dev/sdb
resize2fs /dev/VolGroup/lv_root

VolGroup and lv_root can change on different distributions. But it works for me on Ubuntu also.

And then add this code to your Vagrantfile:

...
  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
  ...
  # Validate this should be run it once
  if ARGV[0] == "up" && ! File.exist?("./disk1.vdi")
    vb.customize [
      'createhd',
      '--filename', "./disk1.vdi",
      '--format', 'VDI',
      # 100GB
      '--size', 100 * 1024
    ]

    vb.customize [
      'storageattach', :id,
      '--storagectl', 'SATA Controller',
      '--port', 1, '--device', 0,
      '--type', 'hdd', '--medium',
      file_to_disk
    ]
  end

  if ARGV[0] == "up" && ! File.exist?("./disk1.vdi")
    # Run script to map new disk
    config.vm.provision "bash", path: "bootstrap.sh"
    # Run script to increase swap memory
    config.vm.provision "bash", path: "increase_swap.sh"
  end
...

This creates a VDI disk file with 100GB of capacity. And is attached to your OS.

This problem is solved when you create cloud Vagrant boxes, like AWS EC2 instances with Vagrant :D

Increase Swap Memory

As I install Oracle Fusion Middleware products, they require some amount of swap memory, but base box comes with a small amount of swap.

To resolve this, add this script called "increase_swap.sh" on your working directory:

#!/bin/sh

# size of swapfile in megabytes
swapsize=8000

# does the swap file already exist?
grep -q "swapfile" /etc/fstab

# if not then create it
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo 'swapfile not found. Adding swapfile.'
  fallocate -l ${swapsize}M /swapfile
  chmod 600 /swapfile
  mkswap /swapfile
  swapon /swapfile
  echo '/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
else
  echo 'swapfile found. No changes made.'
fi

# output results to terminal
df -h
cat /proc/swaps
cat /proc/meminfo | grep Swap

If you destroy and up your box now, you will have a new box with 8GB of swap memory added and 100GB of additional disk space.

Answer 4

How I did this in Vagrantfile. For people searching ...

ubuntu.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |virtualbox|
  virtualbox.name = "Ubuntu_1510_#{Time.now.getutc.to_i}"
  virtualbox.customize [
      "storagectl", :id, 
      "--name", "SATAController", 
      "--controller", "IntelAHCI", 
      "--portcount", "1", 
      "--hostiocache", "on"
  ]
  virtualbox.customize [
      "clonehd", "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/Vagrant Test Boxes/#{virtualbox.name}/box-disk1.vmdk", 
                 "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/Vagrant Test Boxes/#{virtualbox.name}/ubuntu.vdi", 
      "--format", "VDI"
  ]
  virtualbox.customize [
      "modifyhd", "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/Vagrant Test Boxes/#{virtualbox.name}/ubuntu.vdi",
      "--resize", 100 * 1024
  ]
  virtualbox.customize [
      "storageattach", :id, 
      "--storagectl", "SATAController", 
      "--port", "0", 
      "--device", "0", 
      "--type", "hdd",
      "--nonrotational", "on",
      "--medium", "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/Vagrant Test Boxes/#{virtualbox.name}/ubuntu.vdi" 
  ]
end

Answer 5

@Anders had the answer that worked best for me (initializing the box with more memory) but i did have to make a few small tweaks that actually made it simpler.

ubuntu.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |virtualbox|
virtualbox.name = "Ubuntu_ProjectName"

virtualbox.customize [
  "clonehd", "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/#{virtualbox.name}/box-disk1.vmdk",   # Note that this may not be the correct file name
             "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/#{virtualbox.name}/ubuntu.vdi", 
  "--format", "VDI"
]
virtualbox.customize [
  "modifyhd", "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/#{virtualbox.name}/ubuntu.vdi",
  "--resize", 100 * 1024
]
virtualbox.customize [
  "storageattach", :id, 
  "--storagectl", "SCSI",  # Instead of the first customize section i just referenced the existing SCSI controller as I am on a mac which uses SCSI by default 
  "--port", "0", 
  "--device", "0", 
  "--type", "hdd",
  "--nonrotational", "on",
  "--medium", "#{ENV["HOME"]}/VirtualBox VMs/#{virtualbox.name}/ubuntu.vdi" 
]
end

Answer 6

For Centos7 I used Yujie's answer but with a couple of changes. First use an IDE controller, editing the --storagectl:

    v.customize [
          'storageattach', :id,
          '--storagectl', 'IDE',
          '--port', 1, 
          '--device', 0,
          '--type', 'hdd', 
          '--medium',  ".vagrant/machines/target/virtualbox/disk1.vdi"
        ]

Then in the bootstrap.sh the volume names are different and the file system is XFS, so this becomes

sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb
sudo vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb
sudo lvextend /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /dev/sdb
sudo xfs_growfs /

Answer 7

short answer; go to the box file in your ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/<yourbox>/box file and edit lines:

<DiskSection>
<Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
<Disk ovf:capacity="42949672960" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" ovf:populatedSize="0"/>
<Disk ovf:capacity="10485760" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte" ovf:diskId="vmdisk2" ovf:fileRef="file2" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" ovf:populatedSize="0"/>   
</DiskSection>

That will edit the initial disk size more on the matter (short read) here

Answer 8

How can I add more space to my vagrant file virtual box when it says config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v| v.memory = 4096 v.cpus = 4

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