Hi, I have filed a bug report for this problem, here is it's id: Ticket #20294 (new defect)
Thanks, George... On Sunday, April 4, 2021, 1:52:20 PM PDT, George R Goffe <grgo...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, When the vitual hdd is defined during VM creation, I selected a dynamically allocated VDI. As far as I can tell, the size selected will be the maximum size of the hdd on the host and that less space will be allocated initially and extended as needed during guest operation. Correct? My situation is a VM with a dynamically allocated hdd of 384GB. Right now it's at 45GB or so but is trying to extend the size. The guest is reporting disk problems and out of space problems and has now changed one partition to read only. What I think is happening is that the guest has a code path which Virtual Box intercepts, does some magic to add space, restart the operation. This is apparently NOT happening. The path through Virtual Box may or may not be trying to handle this situation but then appears to let the error(s) continue through the guest OS (5.12.0-0.rc5.180.fc35.x86_64). Here's what the host thinks of the partition where the VDI is located: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Really_Available Use% Mount_Point /dev/sda8 1735405656 485065980 1250569508 1250339676 28% /export/home The guest thinks it's VDI is: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 1992552 164592 1706720 9% / /dev/sda7 65478188 14001584 48104780 23% /usr /dev/sda1 1992552 149816 1721496 9% /boot /dev/sda8 184666464 19495796 155717356 12% /export/home /dev/sda5 65478188 751092 61355272 2% /var /dev/sda6 65478188 936844 61169520 2% /opt Which is considerably less than 384GB. Additionally, the guest is throwing numerous messages like these: [ 23.180382] 06:32:17.603879 main VBoxService 6.1.18_Fedora r142142 (verbosity: 0) linux.amd64 (Mar 2 2021 00:00:00 ) release log 06:32: [ 23.184678] 06:32:17.610514 main OS Product: Linux [ 23.189518] 06:32:17.614980 main OS Release: 5.12.0-0.rc5.180.fc35.x86_64 [ 23.192546] 06:32:17.617869 main OS Version: #1 SMP Mon Mar 29 15:30:36 UTC 2021 [ 23.197236] 06:32:17.620938 main Executable: /usr/sbin/VBoxService 06:32:17.620942 main Process ID: 591 06:32:17.620944 main Pa [ 23.202542] 06:32:17.628117 main 6.1.18_Fedora r142142 started. Verbose level = 0 [ 23.208141] 06:32:17.633605 main vbglR3GuestCtrlDetectPeekGetCancelSupport: Supported (#1) [ 40.487920] e1000: enp0s3 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX [ 40.488885] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp0s3: link becomes ready [ 7841.824091] systemd[1]: systemd v248-1.fc35 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX -APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOM P +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 +PWQU ALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD +XKBCOMMON +UTMP +SYSVINIT default-hierarchy=unified) [ 7841.825374] systemd[1]: Detected virtualization oracle. [ 7841.825631] systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64. [ 7872.660143] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1ffff800 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [ 7872.661528] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED [ 7872.662445] ata1.00: cmd 61/00:58:c8:89:2b/0a:00:12:00:00/40 tag 11 ncq dma 1310720 ou res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 7872.664910] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [ 7872.665671] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED [ 7872.666963] ata1.00: cmd 61/00:60:c8:93:2b/0a:00:12:00:00/40 tag 12 ncq dma 1310720 ou res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) and: [ 7872.721207] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [ 7872.721577] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 7872.722023] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:e0:10:7a:0d/00:00:17:00:00/40 tag 28 ncq dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 7872.723230] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [ 7872.723607] ata1: hard resetting link [ 7873.036871] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 7873.038028] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 7873.038418] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.038850] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.039295] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.039725] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.040250] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.040691] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.041133] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 7873.041646] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 and: [49175.522760] EXT4-fs (sda8): failed to convert unwritten extents to written extents -- potential data loss! (inode 2621957, error -30) [49175.526567] EXT4-fs (sda8): failed to convert unwritten extents to written extents -- potential data loss! (inode 2621958, error -30) [49175.530010] EXT4-fs (sda8): failed to convert unwritten extents to written extents -- potential data loss! (inode 2621961, error -30) Of course there are more of all of these messages available in a file. I'm not sure how I would attach a file to this mailing list though. Can someone take a look at all this and render some assistance please? Best regards, George... VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.1.19 r143581 (Qt5.6.1) Copyright © 2021 Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. 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