[ Comments below, in line ] On Monday 22 August 2011 at 3:59 pm, Maurice penned about "Re: [VBox-users] Guest disk resize"
> My guest WinXP .vdi file is 9.9GiB. If I run the VM, the guest WinXP > tells me the C: disk is 5.62GB used, 4.36 GB spare. > > So if I resize the WinXP .vdi file to, say 11GB, what exactly are > you saying then has to be resized in WinXP - and how? Hi Maurice, We're a bit out of scope of the list as your question has more to do with Windows XP than Virtualization. The short answer to your question can be found here: [ http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_05.htm ] The long answer is as follows. When dealing with Virtualization, we have two perspectives. First, the perspective of the Host O/S and second, the perspective of the Guest O/S. The Host O/S deals with files and processes. The Virtualization software is a process. A .vdi is a file. The Guest O/S also deals with files and processes however it is bound /within/ (this is important) to the Host O/S process for it and the Host O/S (.vdi) disk. In other words, the .vdi file is one of the VM's disk drives. If the its disk drive increases in space, you need to tell the Guest O/S there's more /total/ (also important) space available. What you cite above is the `used' versus `free' space within the current size of the Guest O/S' disk drive. As a side note, if you're to increase the size of the .vdi, you'll increase the amount of `free' space the Guest O/S sees - but only after doing what the above link tells you to do. :) HTH! Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
