Background: My last post about VirtualBox was about getting USB working,
and that was wildly successful. I've been using it to sync my iPhone[0]
and VPN into work.
I need to make the Windows XP disk bigger. Now that it's so useful I
want to install Office on it. There are lots of tutorials out
On 02/05/2011 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>
> The problem I'm having is when I run that command, I get the following
> confusing error message (indented for clarity):
>
> david@lexa:~/.VirtualBox/VDI$ VBoxManage createhd
> --filename WinXPBIG.vdi --size 20480
> 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...5
Does the windows disk manager show that there is more space on wn empty
partition? Looks like the command completed successfully to me.
Chris O'Connell
>From my iPhone
On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:52 PM, jbk wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>>
>> The problem I'm having is when I
On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>
> VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk
> '/media/extbara160/david/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXPPro.vdi'
> {f92bed62-be92-4322-b278-adda513d3f4b} because a hard disk
> '/home/david/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXPPro.vdi' with UUID
> {f92bed62-be92-4322-b
On 02/05/2011 02:21 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>>
>> VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk
>> '/media/extbara160/david/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXPPro.vdi'
>> {f92bed62-be92-4322-b278-adda513d3f4b} because a hard disk
>> '/home/david/.VirtualBox/
On Feb 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, David Kramer wrote:
>
> Funny story: I only had 12MB left on the VM. Windows XP doesn't come
> with a partition resizing tool, and I didn't have enough disk space left
> to install one ;)
Boot a GNU Parted Live CD and use that to resize the partition after expanding
On 02/05/2011 05:58 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, David Kramer wrote:
>>
>> Funny story: I only had 12MB left on the VM. Windows XP doesn't come
>> with a partition resizing tool, and I didn't have enough disk space left
>> to install one ;)
>
> Boot a GNU Parted Live CD
On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:40 PM, David Kramer wrote:
>
> I thought of that, but I couldn't wrap my head around how to boot a VM
> off a real CD.
You set the VM to use the physical disc instead of a disc image and boot.
--Rich P.
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On 02/05/2011 04:57 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 02:21 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>>> VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk
>>> '/media/extbara160/david/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXPPro.vdi'
>>> {f92bed62-be92-4322-b278-adda513d3f4b} b
On 02/05/2011 10:58 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> The problem I'm having is when I run that command, I get the following
> confusing error message (indented for clarity):
>
> david@lexa:~/.VirtualBox/VDI$ VBoxManage createhd
>--filename WinXPBIG.vdi --size 20480
> 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:45 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> [trouble specifying vdi file names]
>
> I've run into this before. This is maddeningly stupid, I know, but if
> you give it full absolute paths to the .vdi files, then that error
> message goes away. Moronic, but works.
I've run int
On 02/08/2011 12:45 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> I've run into this before. This is maddeningly stupid, I know, but if
> you give it full absolute paths to the .vdi files, then that error
> message goes away. Moronic, but works.
Actually I had them in the current directory so that wasn't a
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