----- Original Message ---- From: Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, October 25, 2010 3:38:40 PM Subject: Re: [VBox-users] How to reduce the size of VM on cloning
>> $ VBoxManage clonehd ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/aaa.vdi >> ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/bbb.vdi --format VDI --size 100000MB > That's currently not possible. Resizing virtual hard disks will be > possible with the next major release. So the only way to clone to > a smaller hard disk is to do this from within the guest, that is > create a new virtual hard disk, attach it as additional hard disk > to the guest and copy all files from one medium to the other. > You could use an Ubuntu LiveCD to ensure that no files are locked > by the operating system. Hi Frank, Thanks for your advice. It would be easier to install a new .vdi B.R. Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
