Increase disk space in Oracle Virtual machine Windows 10

Run Oracle Virtual machine as admin

Go to Virtual Media Manager

Slide the slider as shown below to increase the size. Once clicked Apply it cannot be reverted so decide how much you want.

*Make sure your VM is shutdown otherwise you can not perform this.

Once done, close the window and start your VM.

Go to This PC.

Right click This PC > Manage

Right click left pane as shown above, click Extend Volume and click Next on welcome window.

Provide the space accordingly and click next.

Restart the machine.

Happy Virtualization and enjoy the new space. HTH 🙂

Setup Microsoft Windows OS Virtual machine

Go to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

Download VM zip file by clicking VirtualBox link. Extract the zip file.

Before installing, please note:

These virtual machines expire after 90 days. We recommend setting a snapshot when you first install the virtual machine which you can roll back to later. Mac users will need to use a tool that supports zip64, like The Unarchiver, to unzip the files.
The password to your VM is “Passw0rd!”

Go to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download oracle virtualbox by clicking on windows hosts.

Once installation done, run the oracle VM Virtual box Manager.

Select Import.

Select the downloaded ova file from Microsoft site. And click Next.

In below window, change the RAM and Machine base folder as per requirements.

And then click import.

Click Start to start the VM.

Bonus: Explore the settings yourself.

You can change RAM size from Settings > System.

Please do share queries or feedback in comments below.

Happy Virtual machine working! 🙂

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