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Re: [LUG] Was Re: VirtualBox stupidness..

 

On 14/04/10 13:50, tom wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
On 14/04/10 10:31, Neil Stone wrote:

ok, so I've been toying with VirtualBox for a while now..

I have Windows XP running (greased lightning I hasten to add) inside
VB..

I ran out of disk space..(oops)

VB paused the XP system 'till I free some space.. spot the issue..

need it running to free the space to get it running to free the space to
get it running..

Ideas on a postcard to the usual address..

Neil

Is it the space in the virtual disk which has run out, or space on
your drive which contains the virtual disk image? (vdi file?)

I've had the same with VMWare before, with a similar result, I wanted
to move the vmdk disk image files to another partition but it wouldn't
let me, well not unless I told it to ignore the issue (but I found it
popped up with a message about low disk space again).

Rob


Does anyone know if I can boot an already existing windows setup within
VB - all the ones I've looked at tell me how to install a new setup but
I just want to pop up windows as is for a mo...
Tom te tom te tom


Yep, I kind of managed it although I think the Windows installation I used was borked.

This might help...

http://tinyurl.com/38pzej

Rob


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