Resizing disk space on vagrant box

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