On Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:15:49 BST Adam Carter wrote: > Some time back i moved from vmware to virtualbox, and am currently > wondering if there are some old vmware files i can remove. Virtualbox uses > the old vmware disk files, so first i checked via atime and lsof. > > Why does atime not show all the files that lsof shows were open?
They are snapshots and unless saved I would think they are removed when you shut down VBox. > Steps were; > 1. start vm > 2. create and save dummy file in vm > 3. run lsof on vm PID > 4. shut down mv > 5. run find to see which files were accessed > > # lsof -p 2299 | grep 'VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64' > VirtualBo 2299 adam 42u REG 259,2 2453 10095159 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 44u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094024 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s001.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 45u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094071 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s002.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 46u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094011 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s003.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 47u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094108 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s004.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 48u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094076 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s005.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 49u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094127 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s006.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 50u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094050 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s007.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 51u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094087 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s008.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 52u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094031 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s009.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 53u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094102 > /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s010.vmdk > VirtualBo 2299 adam 54u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094021 > <snip> > > # find VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/ -atime -1 -type f > VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Win10-vbox.vbox > VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Logs/VBox.log > VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Logs/VBox.log.1 > VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Win10-vbox.vbox-prev > # Incidentally, I can't start VMs when the gentoo host is running kernel 4.19.57. I get an error about "Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)." Kernel 4.19.52 works fine. Are you getting any such problems? -- Regards, Mick
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