I have been toying with writing a gui front end for VBoxManage, simply because I do not have occasion to use it often enough to remember all its capabilities. Attachments CloneVDI-exe-4.01.zip CloneVDI v4.01 executables and release notes. V2.10 source code can now be found attached to the next message. The main zip download below contains release notes in text format only because of download size limits. Feel free to ask any questions here, but read the release notes first.Ĭlick for CloneVDI 4.01 Release Notes in PDF format. Instead it uses my own code to read and write VDI files (and other formats), and therefore works in a rather different way, with different features and capabilities.Įnjoy. Note that this tool is not simply a GUI front end for VBoxManage. The zip file includes release notes which hopefully provides answers to all of your questions. Optionally, you can create a shortcut to link your desktop to the CloneVDI.exe file in the target folder. To install, simply create a folder and unpack the zip contents into it. It seems to be significantly faster than "VBoxManage clonehd".
Some useful diagnostics about the source VDI, such as the partition map and the internal fileystem.User choice to either keep the old UUID or generate a new one for the clone.Merge snapshot VDI chain into a single VDI (VHD and VMDK snapshot chains supported too).Can handle GPT partitioning in addition to legacy MBR.Ability to enlarge the maximum size of a virtual disk, optionally enlarging the main partition too.Ability to repair common forms of header corruption.Ability to compact (discard unused blocks from) the clone, with no need to run sdelete/zerofree first.A CLI interface too (for people who like that kind of thing!).Reads VDI,VHD,VHDX,VMDK,Parallels HDD,RAW files and physical drives, writes VDI.(*) Īttached to this message is a zip file containing the software tool that I wrote, which I call "CloneVDI" (currently at version 4.01). As a recent vacation project I decided to try to write a nice simple tool that provided a good answer to all of these questions. Also, questions often arise related to VDI files such as "how do I increase the maximum size of a VDI?" or "how can I make my dynamic VDI file small again?". Many Windows users dislike the fact that you currently have to use the Command Prompt to clone VDI files (*).
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