Solved: How to add disk in a virtual box VM

To add new disk in Virtual box VM it should be in powered off state.

• Select the Virtual box VM in which you want to add the disk and power off the VM.
• Right click on the VM and go to “Settings” .

Select “Storage” .

• In the right Window you will see two icons with + sign.
• Hover the mouse on the icon which says “Adds Hard Disk” and click on it.

• Click on “Create New Disk”
• Select VDI
• Select “Dynamically Allocated”
• Give disk a name and select size.
• Click Create
• Click OK

Once the disk is  created start the VM and login to it.

• You should now see the new disk in VM.
• If the disk is not visible run OS commands to scan the disk.

For Solaris execute “devfsadm -Cv” in the OS to scan the disk.
And if you are using Linux follow this post for scanning new LUNs .
Hope this post is helpful to you. Do let us know if you have any query.