Next problem. I used gparted to repartition the disk. I resized the Windows partition to 78 GB and removed the Solaris partition that I don't need.
When I reboot and look at disk management in Windows, it shows partition has 78 GB in disk view, but also shows only 20 GB in partition. What step did I miss? Why is Windows not seeing the extra space? Barbara Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > Thanks - I do need to repartition. I put alot of space in the Solaris > partition. Need to move some to the Windows partition, to use > VirutalBox from Windows. > Barbara > > > Dave Miner wrote: >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20080530/85813954/attachment.html>
