Updating VirtualBox on Ubuntu
Dec 01, 2021
How was it installed? The official apt repositories are known to have old (read thoroughly tested and stable) versions for some software packages. In that light, VirtualBox was installed through the latest stable .deb installer downloaded from the official website, with the version number at the time being 6.1.28-147628. When the new stable version 6.1.30-148432 became available, following are the steps that were followed to set it up. The Process First, we need to obtain a copy of the .…
Resize Virtual Disk Image and Expand Linux LVM
May 01, 2020
If you are like me and create virtual machines with only a reasonable virtual disk size to start with (because you can always expand them in the future, right?), it is very much possible you encountering a situation where you want to increase the virtual disk size. And if you run Fedora like me, it is also possible you suddenly finding yourself looking for a way to expand a LVM partition to utilize the gained space once the VDI size is increased.…