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It sounds like your hard drives aren't detected. Perhaps it would help if you change the emulated HDD controllers? http://oracle-virtualbox.com/hard-disk-controller/

Here you have a guide for VMware Player 7.0: http://vmware-player.com/install-vmware-player-on-linux/

You can use the parted command to resize a partition. Enter the parted prompt by entering parted. Once inside the prompt, you can use the resize command to resize a partition. Source:
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