On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> >
> >> With v4.0 -- you can resize (grow) existing disk images to any
> >> size you choose. (up to 2TB) Before v4.0 -- images were growable
> >> but to some maximum size, that you choose when creating the
> >> image. (like 20 GB)
> >
> > that's what i *thought* i'd read. my point was that that new
> > feature isn't mentioned early in the manual (pp. 17-18) when
> > explaining to the reader about (re)sizing the disk image. and it
> > seems that's an important enough new feature that it deserves
> > mentioning.
>
> This is not important feature for me.
>
> The new architecture of v4.0 is important feature for me... as it
> allows backup+restore VMs with snapshots...
>
> Different people w/ different needs...
i wasn't passing judgment on any features that were new with 4.0;
all i was pointing out was that, at least in this one case, a
potentially useful feature was not being mentioned early on when it
would be most useful. if someone with experience with vbox was
reading the early part of the User Manual, they would never be aware
that there was a new disk image resize feature available.
more specifically, if you read about that feature way up on p. 123:
"The –resize option allows you to expand the capacity of an existing
image; this increases the logical size of a virtual disk without
affecting the physical size much. This currently works only for the
VDI and VHD formats, and only for the dynamically expanding variants."
until i read that just this minute, i didn't realize that the
resizing was available only for dynamically expanding disk images.
that strikes me as a fairly important property of that feature.
anyway, i don't want to flog this, but it might be worth having a
really early section in the User Manual, "Cool new stuff with Release
4.0" for people who've worked with vbox before and just need a quick
list. (and, no, the changelog isn't sufficient. that kind of section
shouldn't clutter things up with bug fixes -- just major new
features.)
rday
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