Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> Are you still heating with resistance? Yes. But, with substantial wood auxiliary heat. > So all consumption of electricity within the house is absolutely free in > winter, unless it sends warm water down the drain or photons out a window? Don't forget the electric dryer. (I don't use it,

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On Thu, August 20, 2020 2:40 pm, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > My only complaint is that in high summer, the > heat it (and the big monitor) kick out is a little unwelcome. In winter, > just the opposite. Are you still heating with resistance? So all consumption of electricity within the

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> The big issue with VB and the Mac side is SIP. It creates all sorts of havoc > when it come to modifying the new disk, as SIP doesn’t want you to do it. I don't recall any such problems with it. I'm using VirtualBox 6.0.20, hosting Mac OS 10.6 (non-Server, via tricks), and 10.7, along with

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
The big issue with VB and the Mac side is SIP. It creates all sorts of havoc when it come to modifying the new disk, as SIP doesn’t want you to do it. I toyed with the idea of running VB as root, but that’s a scary thing and could potentially bodge up my machine. I know this can be done, I’m

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> Apparently there are ways to create a vmdk file that “points” at a physical > drive, but I’ve been unsuccessful in getting this to work. I was chasing doing this at one time, and I thought I'd gotten it to work. It is _not_ a trivial process. Then again, maybe I never did get it to work and

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Not sure what you’re describing (I know what you’re talking about as far as partitions.) The existing hard drive isn’t large enough for the STAR VM. Native hard drive in the laptop is 100GB. The VM is 95GB. Wouldn’t be enough room for the OS. This is why I want to clone/copy the VM to a hard

[MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT - VirtualBox & Copying a VM to a Physical Machine

2020-08-20 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
Perhaps I'm ignorant enough to come up with a solution: Why couldn't you create a new partition, clone the HD to the new partition, et voila! Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Thursday, August 20,