-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2012 02:12 AM, John A. Wallace wrote: > Hi. There are several occasions when I would be using a VM with an > ISO image as if I were simply booting into the image and running > the OS entirely in RAM. These OS can of course have different > environments, but one thing they all do not have by default is a > need for a disk. Therefore, given this scenario, it would seem to > me that I could save unnecessary use of disk space by not creating > a disk for these machines. I can see that, during the creation of > every VM, I am given an option not to add a virtual hard drive. I > suppose I can dispense with the hard drive entirely in these cases. > You can, and it works without problems. I use a VM that has no virtual hard drive configured (but it does have a virtual SATA controller) to test the live distros I develop, and haven't run into any problems with it.
> On the other hand, even if I need to have a shared folder or if I > want to use a disk for swap space, I could still get by with > minimal space requirements. Is that not so? Thanks. You could, but in such circumstances you'd probably be better off installing the live distro to a drive image. Or, you could use scp or sftp to copy files into and out of the running live distro over a host-only adapter while it's running and skip the shared folder. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Second order effects are always gonna get'cha!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBkjz4ACgkQO9j/K4B7F8Et6gCcCxEW6NQmPGOESupNqn20GSt/ yhcAn0Rd+ZaPNYKE6iVZcA8DAvFwEsrK =6Jxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
