{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825/events","html_url":"https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825","id":95518824,"number":825,"title":"How to increase the disk size of the VM Kitematic creates","user":{"login":"atbrew","id":639529,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/639529?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew","html_url":"https://github.com/atbrew","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-07-16T20:19:51Z","updated_at":"2015-07-22T09:46:18Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I can see I can manually update the size of the boot2docker VM, but tbh I seem to have to delete the VM quite regularly so manual adjustment of the initial size is unpalatable. I would like to specify a profile that just say create a 60G disk on creation, and possibly lets me specify where that disk image is stored (eg on a external drive).\r\n\r\nHow can I use a boot2docker profile with kitematic? "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kitematic/kitematic/issues/comments/123645105","html_url":"https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825#issuecomment-123645105","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kitematic/kitematic/issues/825","id":123645105,"user":{"login":"atbrew","id":639529,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/639529?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew","html_url":"https://github.com/atbrew","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/atbrew/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-22T09:46:18Z","updated_at":"2015-07-22T09:46:18Z","body":"It will grow up to the maximum specified, which is 20G (for the Kitematic docker-machine default).\r\n\r\nI did try to work around this with docker-machine creating the box for me before launching kitematic, with mixed sucess. I needed to use the docker-machine that was bundled with KiteMatic (as opposed to the one I have installed separate to kitematic) to create the machine manually. After this Kitematic was able to use that virtual machine\r\n\r\n**# create an alias to kitematics docker-machine\r\nalias dm='/Applications/Kitematic\\ \\(Beta\\).app/Contents/Resources/resources/docker-machine'**\r\n \r\n**# create the dev docker machine with a 40G (dynamically grown) disk\r\ndm create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-disk-size \"40000\" dev**\r\n\r\n"}}