Thanks - I do need to repartition. I put alot of space in the Solaris partition. Need to move some to the Windows partition, to use VirutalBox from Windows. Barbara
Dave Miner wrote: > Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > >> Question from OpenSolaris in VirtualBox newbie... >> >> Acer Ferrari laptop with dualboot setup with Windows XP and OpenSolaris. >> I only have 1.47 GB left that's not already allocated for Windows XP and >> the OpenSolaris partition. >> >> I have successfully installed VirtualBox in my Windows partition and I >> can use the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD in the Virtualbox in Windows. >> The box has 1688 MB base memory. >> >> But, when I try to install from the Live CD, it says I don't have room. >> I only have 1 GB available. I need 3 GB minimum. >> >> Where is it that I need to add space from in order to make 3 GB, in the >> virtualbox in Windows? Do I just need to create a virtualbox with 3 GB >> assigned to it? Will virtualbox use 3 GB from the Windows allocated >> space? Or, is this really "virtual" or not physical space? >> >> >> Or, is the problem that I only have 1.46 GB on the laptop that's not >> allocated to Windows partition or the Solaris partition? >> >> > > You need to expand the size of the virtual machine's virtual disk, which > comes out of the Windows file system. Probably the easiest thing to do > given where you're at is to destroy the machine and re-create it, this > time selecting at least 3 GB for the virtual machine's disk. If you > don't have enough space to do that, then you need to start repartitioning. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20080530/4b5c797d/attachment.html>
