On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:20:39PM -0500, gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com wrote: > SUGGESTION for the vBox developers: please consider adding the ability > (perhaps via browse for .vdi destination) to choose a > location for a new .vdi at creation time.
I'll admit I was a bit confused by your question about placing the vdi. When I create a guest under vbox 4.2.x, I am given the option where the vdi should be placed before it is created. I would be surprised if this feature went away in 5.x. > > @Gregory ... answer to your question, by having many smaller* drives, > then i only need to create a 1/4 TB image if i choose > to back up my O/S c: drive; in addition to having separate > logical drives for placing .vdi files off of the c: drive, i > also have logical drives for data (100GB) and .iso > images (282GB). Ok, that makes sense. I too have a single separate partition behind windows for things I don't want to keep with the OS. > > * i laugh when i say "smaller" when talking about > 100GB logical disks because in mid-1980's my first > hard disk on my Zenith XT (IBM CLONE) came with > a 10MB (sic) hard disk. Yes. I too remember when I got my first 1 GB disk thinking that I would probably never fill it. Now I'm running out of space on drives with 500-2,000 times that; but this is getting off topic. > > Again thanks to Mark, Gregory, and Frank to pointing me into to documentation > and for your guidance. > > i'm hoping that eventually i can segregate .vdi's to multiple logical disks > as per my original idea, if not, i may have to rejoin my > E:, F:, and G: disks into a single logical disk if vBox needs all .vdi's on > the same drive (i'm guessing that's not the case). If you don't mind your guest settings being stored in the same place as the vdi files, you can put the vdi files where you want. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ 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
