Extend Windows 7 VirtualBox Disk

1. Use the VirtualBox client to create a new disk of the size you want in the same directory as your guest.
2. Clone the old disk to the new.  Open a command prompt, navigate to the guest directory and run :

VBoxManage clonehd   --existing

3. Attach the new disk to the guest and detach the old disk.  Ensure the new disk is first in the list / SATA 0
4. Guest should now boot up.  If you find it asks you to select a boot disk then the order is incorrect as per step 3
5. Open Windows disk manager, It will currently show the old size with #GB free.  Right click, extend, follow the prompts.
6. Confirm everything is good and you can delete the old disk.

Thats it, you're done ...

MAC Keyboard with anything other than OSX

My friend @coringrieves recently posted a picture of his desktop. Which is a Windows PC (he is averse to anything other than Windows) and a wired MAC keyboard. After mocking him furiously I then went and did the same myself.

Still persevering with Ubuntu it has an English (UK, Macintosh)keyboard layout which works great.

Not so the VirtualBox Windows 7 VM I run nor the Win64 alternative OS I sometimes boot into (Never did find a decent/working H.232 Linux video client).

Trawling around it seems the options are mostly based on installing Apples bootcamp.  Which is huge, I'd rather have gone and bought a Mac looky likely kb than install that bloat-ware.

Stumbled across another suggestion of using Microsofts keyboard layout tool to create your own, or in this case someone else kindly did it.

http://www.logikdev.com/2010/02/18/apple-uk-keyboard-layout-for-windows/

Installed, VirtualBox VM and vanilla OS all work fine.