OK, >From a performance perspective, is there any disadvantage to having 2 drives instead of one? Not looking at it from a convenience side (haivng data separate to OS), purely performance related.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Kees Nuyt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:58:30 +0100, you wrote: > > >Hi, > >Why does it take 16 hours to create a fixed size virtual drive. > >I have a 1.8tb hard drive setup and it took ages. > >As it happens I installed the evaluation copy of 7 not the final one, and > >now i can't reinstall the old one.w > >So I want to delete the drive, but now i'm going to have to wait > >16 hours to build a new one. > > > >Is there another option? > > > >If i create a dynamic sized drive, can i later change the > >setting to be of a fixed size hard drive? > > What Alexey Eromenko said, and: > > No, change a setting will not work. > You can only copy dynamic -> fixed (which will take a lot of > time again) with VBoxManage clonehd, so you need twice the > space temporarily. > > It might be more interesting to create a smaller image and > add new images to the guest and expand the filesystem as the > need arises (if the guest OS supports that, MS Windows 7 > should). > > I have (at least) two .VDIs, one for the guest OS (Solaris), > one for data (homedirs). > -- > ( Kees Nuyt > ) > c[_] > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >
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