[ Comments below, in line ] On Tuesday 23 August 2011 at 8:13 am, Maurice penned about "Re: [VBox-users] Guest disk resize"
> Thanks, Pablo - you've helped me see what I had wrongly assumed! Hey Maurice, You're welcome. > I don't remember telling the guest O/S (WinXP) anything about the > drive size when I defined the WinXP VM several years ago, only that > I defined the size for VBox to use. You did but it was indirect. :) Before you created the machine, you probably selected the `create new' option in the wizard. At which point you decided the size of the .vdi. During the installation of the O/S, VBox exposed the size of the .vdi to the Guest O/S and that's how it was initially set up. > So, as I now understand it, after getting VBox to increase the size > of the .vdi, I need to do the equivalent of running e.g. Gparted > from a Live DVD to alter the partition structure of a Linux > installation (which I have done several times in the past). You don't have to run Gparted. As I mentioned, once you've increased the size of the virtual disk, in XP you can following the instructions in the link I sent you. > A possible problem inside the guest WinXP is that - a well as the C: > disk - there is a small D: disk containing some VBox extension data, > making it difficult to extend C:. Ah! Can you delete D:? Is there anytyhing in D: you'd like to keep? If so, can you plop it on C:? > It's beginning to look as though the only sure way of having a > larger drive would be to ditch the current VM, make a new, larger, > one, and re- install WinXP all over again. Yuch! Well, that's one way too but I don't believe you're quite at that point. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
