Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > Question from OpenSolaris in VirtualBox newbie... > > Acer Ferrari laptop with dualboot setup with Windows XP and OpenSolaris. > I only have 1.47 GB left that's not already allocated for Windows XP and > the OpenSolaris partition. > > I have successfully installed VirtualBox in my Windows partition and I > can use the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD in the Virtualbox in Windows. > The box has 1688 MB base memory. > > But, when I try to install from the Live CD, it says I don't have room. > I only have 1 GB available. I need 3 GB minimum. > > Where is it that I need to add space from in order to make 3 GB, in the > virtualbox in Windows? Do I just need to create a virtualbox with 3 GB > assigned to it? Will virtualbox use 3 GB from the Windows allocated > space? Or, is this really "virtual" or not physical space? > > > Or, is the problem that I only have 1.46 GB on the laptop that's not > allocated to Windows partition or the Solaris partition? >
You need to expand the size of the virtual machine's virtual disk, which comes out of the Windows file system. Probably the easiest thing to do given where you're at is to destroy the machine and re-create it, this time selecting at least 3 GB for the virtual machine's disk. If you don't have enough space to do that, then you need to start repartitioning. Dave
