HOWTO: resize virtualbox vmdk file in windows

This description is based on stackoverflow answer and update to work under windows.

  1. Clone
    "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" clonehd "source.vmdk" "cloned.vdi" --format vdi
    
  2. Resize to 30G (30*1024)
  3. "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyhd "cloned.vdi" --resize 30720
    
  4. Clone back to vmdk
  5. "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" clonehd "cloned.vdi" "resized.vmdk" --format vmdk
    

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