Category: Virtualbox

If you run a VirtualBox VM that you want up and running all the time, it’s handy to have it start automatically when you log in, rather than launching it by hand each time. This guide covers doing exactly that on Windows, using a small batch file in the Startup folder to boot the VM…

The VirtualBox GUI caps a new .vdi disk at 2TB, but that’s a limit of the interface, not the disk format itself. Using the command line you can create much larger disks, and in this guide we’ll make an 18TB dynamic .vdi on a Windows host to show how it’s done. Step 1: Open Command…