Re: [VBox-users] Using Generated System

2017-07-14 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 14/07/2017 à 05:59, Gregory Nowak a écrit : may help you as well. Finally, I just checked, and it's still possible to get a refurbished PC on www.newegg.com with windows xp for less than $200 if you want to go that route. I just go one for free last month :-)) jdd -- http://dodin.org --

Re: [VBox-users] VBox performance

2017-10-19 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 19/10/2017 à 22:16, Tom a écrit : Could my CPU be on the fritz? How can I test that? did you activate the VTx (or other virtual) in the bios? jdd -- http://dodin.org -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

Re: [VBox-users] gpt uefi can we create those in vbox?

2018-02-02 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 02/02/2018 à 04:36, Harry Putnam a écrit : I'm running any vms on an x86 solaris host that has neither of those things (no gpt style disk nor any uefi) style boot arrangement. But if it is possible to create (gpt disks/uefi boot setup) them no idea if it's possible on solaris host, but on

Re: [VBox-users] Howto shrink the file containing a vdi file.

2018-08-21 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 21/08/2018 à 03:01, Allan a écrit : After you have found some way to 0 your freespace sectors, close the VM and run: vboxmanage modifymedium --compact it may use much diskspace ! Remember a backup copy of the VDI, before you try ;-) I didn't look at this recently, but what I would try w

Re: [VBox-users] Howto shrink the file containing a vdi file.

2018-08-23 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 23/08/2018 à 00:50, Allan a écrit : Yeah, I guess you are right. If the partitions in Win gets shrunk to a lesser size, then the VDI should never grow over that size, even if it has room for more. That might be a simpler solution (that has the advantage, that you l8r can simply expand the par

Re: [VBox-users] What's the easiest way to create a virtual image from a physical partition?

2019-09-09 Thread j...@dodin.org
Le 09/09/2019 à 20:42, Chris Green a écrit : I have a Lenovo T470 laptop on which I run xubuntu. It also has a Windows 7 partition. It would be really handy to be able to run Windows 7 as a virtual machine. What's the easiest way to do this? Is the easiest route to use VMware's tools and then