Boxes - Dynamic Disk

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1

I really like Boxes. It’s so much easier to use than VirtualBox.
But (here’s the but) I’d like to see dynamic disks. Supposedly VBox had it, but I could never get it to work. Maybe Boxes has it “but” it’s not working for me.

2

You can easily expand the disk image when needed:

> virsh list --all
 Id   Name       State
---------------------------
 -    fedora     shut off

> virsh start fedora
Domain 'fedora' started

> virsh domblkinfo fedora --all --human 
 Target   Capacity     Allocation   Physical
------------------------------------------------
 vda      30.000 GiB   22.060 GiB   23.735 GiB
 sda      -            -            -

> virsh blockresize fedora vda 40G
Block device 'vda' is resized

Then it depends on the guest to utilize the added space.

3

You can increase the size in the settings; you just have to do it while the guest is off.

4

Thank you!