Suppose you have virtual hard disk in VirtualBox called xp.vdi, you can resize it (megabytes) using the following command.

VBoxManage modifyhd xp.vdi --resize 40960

The command currently doesn't support vmdk virtual disk. So if you have a virtual disk called xp.vmdk, you have to first convert it …

You can build a portable Python environment following steps below.

1. Install python-build-standalone.

2. Install Python packages using pip of the installed python-build-standalone distribution.

3. Pack the whole python-build-standalone directory into a compressed file, e.g., env.tar.gz.

The GitHub repo dclong/python-portable has good examples of building portable Python environments leveraging …

python-build-standalone is a better alternative to conda-pack on managing Python dependencies for PySpark. Please refer to Packaging Python Dependencies for PySpark Using python-build-standalone for tutorials on how to use python-build-standalone to manage Python dependencies for PySpark.

Build Portable Python Environments Using conda-pack

Please refer to the GitHub repo dclong/conda_environ …

You can use Maven to download dependencies of Java packages without creating a Java project. For example, if you want to download all dependencies of arrow-jvm and arrow-memory and build everything into a single fat jar (for easy use in other places), you can first crate a file pom.xml …