David, I can not answer your question, but on two unrelated issues: I have never been able to get my Microsoft product keys to be recognized in VBox nor VMware Fusion, and second, I did a Win 10 update last weekend and lost ethernet on the host machine. In short, found a community post and restored it. You have prompted my curiosity and I believe I will create a Win 10 VM this week.
Good luck with this issue, I've been busy as of late, and hoping to become more responsive to the VBox user community. Stephan On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:03 AM, David White <dmwhite...@gmail.com> wrote: I asked the following question on Superuser about a week ago, but my question hasn't gained any traction. I have a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox (Ubuntu 14 host, VirtualBox 5.0.10 platform). It was originally a Windows 7 virtual machine, and Windows 7 was fully activated.A few days ago, I wanted to run some Windows Updates on the Windows 10 VM to install Threshold 2, but I was told that there wasn't enough disk space.No problem, I figured I would just resize the disk.... except, that's a problem. I increased the disk size from 45GB up to 60GB using vboxmanage, but neither Windows nor gparted running on a Live CD will recognize the increased storage space.I read some documentation that indicates there's a bug in VirtualBox that prevents a guest VM from recognizing increased storage space when snapshots are present. I have 2 snapshots (that I don't really care about) of the Windows 10, so I figured that my snapshots are preventing the virtual machine from seeing the increased disk size.When I go to delete the snapshots, I get either of the following results, depending on which snapshot it is that I'm trying to delete: - For the 2nd snapshot / child snapshot - Error message - Hard disk {path-to-disk file} has more than one child hard disk (2). or... - For the "parent" snapshot, VirtualBox takes a long time acting like it is merging the differences, and then fails (completely crashes). Ubuntu's message whenever an application crashes appears with "The application Oracle VM VirtualBox has closed unexpectedly" - This is the only line I see in /var/log/syslog: Dec 15 05:52:20 Develop-CENTS kernel: [ 2082.315873] DeleteSnap[6852]: segfault at 20 ip 00000000006e3eab sp 00007f8c97893888 error 4 in VBoxSVC[400000+45b000] So then I read that if I clone the VM, that would essentially get rid of the snapshots for me, and then I could increase the disk size on the cloned VM.That's what I did, and I then successfully installed Threshold 2.About a week later, as I was doing some work, I noticed that Windows was telling me that it wasn't activated. I went into the Settings, and the message I read indicated was that "Windows 10 isn't activated because the previous version of Windows was never activated."Fortunately, I had a backed up copy of the old VM (pre-clone, and pre-updating to Threshold 2). I turned that back on, and confirmed that Windows was indeed activated.So I'm up a creek. - Why the heck did Windows 10 lose its activation on the clone that I created? - Can I create a clone without Windows losing its activation? - If not, how can I delete these snapshots, which are preventing me from resizing the hard disk that Windows uses? -- David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
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