> -----Original Message----- > From: The Doctor [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] VM hard drive settings > > -----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. Would you explain more about this last method or point me to a resource that does so that I can try it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
