I would imagine that there might not be any way to avoid having to use a 3rd-party tool to enlarge your partitions. It would be up to the guest OS as to how to deal with the larger disk.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree with you Mark. If this software is good as it is today is ALSO > because users give feedback and ask for features. I also think this > would be a nice feature, but it could cause some confusion to the guest > OS. I can't imagine what would happen to the index table of the file > system of the guest system if the size of the disk just get increased. > > David, we respect the opinion of the developers. We are PROPOSING a > feature, not demanding one. So chill out. > > > > Mark Ehle wrote: >> Dude - back off. I'm just saying that to say that we don't need or >> could use this feature because you can't do it with a real disk is >> just your opinion. My opinion is it would be nice and I would use it, >> but it's not there so I can't. I can live with that. If you don't need >> it then fine - if it ever does come to pass, no one is going to twist >> your arm to use it. >> >> What's your problem, anyway? Seems like every open source forum's got >> at least one guy (contribs.org has about 20) who thinks that his >> opinion of how a software package should work is the only valid view. >> >> Chill out. >> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:07 PM, David Boles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 5/14/2010 6:08 PM, Mark Ehle wrote: >>> >>>> I don't have a problem. But saying that being able to enlarge a VDI >>>> should not be a feature is a matter of opinion. My opinion is that it >>>> would be a nice thing that I would use. >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:11 PM, David Boles <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 5/14/2010 10:42 AM, Mark Ehle wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> OK. Will do. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, David Boles <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 5/14/2010 6:30 AM, Mark Ehle wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Go here. Read this. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422 >>>>>>> >>>>> Well? Did this solve your problem or not? :-) >>>>> >>> Okay. You have me here. You did not answer my question. Did the link >>> that I provided solve your problem? If it did you should thank the >>> author of the utility that he provided that did that. For free. As is >>> Virtualbox provided. >>> >>> Does not the Virtualbox application provided meet all of your needs? No? >>> Not *this* one? >>> >>> Then perhaps your should offer them the code that you can provide, for >>> free as in *no* cost, that would provide this feature to this free, as >>> in no cost, to your, or me, package? >>> >>> I look forward to your contribution. >>> >>> Think carefully here. Demanding features you want to be added to freely >>> offered software seldome works without an effort on your part to >>> contribute code. >>> >>> Have a nice day. >>> -- >>> >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> VBox-users-community mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VBox-users-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
