I see the confusion. I should have looked over the directions you followed to begin with... Basically all you are doing is booting a live version of linux, mounting your OutputFile.vdi (as created by the instructions you followed) as the primary harddrive and using dd to copy it to a new, expanding virtual drive that is mounted as the secondary harddrive. This should move the data from a fixed size drive to an expandable drive.
Let me know if you need any more clarification. Jason On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Scott Garman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Jason! > > On 05/18/2010 02:18 PM, Jason Barnett wrote: > > I'm working from memory but I think this works. > > 1) Create a linux VM (I would just use a live ISO image) > > 2) set your Windows dd image as hda > > I think I get the rest of this, but could you be more clear as to what > I'm doing in step 2? > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > 3) make a new virtual expanding drive the same size as your dd image and > set > > it as hdb > > 4) boot the VM and use dd to copy hda to hdb ( dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > bs=512 ) > > 5) wait.... > > 6) once the copy is done, shut down the VM, remove the original dd image > and > > set the new expanding drive as hda > > 7) Set the VM to boot from hda (instead of the iso image ) > > 8) boot the VM into windows > > > > This should make the new drive only as big as it needs to be, instead of > the > > full 80 Gigs. Even if it is still 80 Gigs, at least you can use one of > the > > previously mentioned options on the native VirtualBox drive image. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
