David,
I can not answer your question, but on two unrelated issues: I have never been
able to get my Microsoft product keys to be recognized in VBox nor VMware
Fusion, and second, I did a Win 10 update last weekend and lost ethernet on the
host machine. In short, found a community post and restored it.
You have prompted my curiosity and I believe I will create a Win 10 VM this
week.
Good luck with this issue, I've been busy as of late, and hoping to become more
responsive to the VBox user community.
Stephan
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:03 AM, David White <[email protected]>
wrote:
I asked the following question on Superuser about a week ago, but my question
hasn't gained any traction.
I have a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox (Ubuntu 14 host, VirtualBox 5.0.10
platform). It was originally a Windows 7 virtual machine, and Windows 7 was
fully activated.A few days ago, I wanted to run some Windows Updates on the
Windows 10 VM to install Threshold 2, but I was told that there wasn't enough
disk space.No problem, I figured I would just resize the disk.... except,
that's a problem. I increased the disk size from 45GB up to 60GB using
vboxmanage, but neither Windows nor gparted running on a Live CD will recognize
the increased storage space.I read some documentation that indicates there's a
bug in VirtualBox that prevents a guest VM from recognizing increased storage
space when snapshots are present. I have 2 snapshots (that I don't really care
about) of the Windows 10, so I figured that my snapshots are preventing the
virtual machine from seeing the increased disk size.When I go to delete the
snapshots, I get either of the following results, depending on which snapshot
it is that I'm trying to delete:
- For the 2nd snapshot / child snapshot - Error message - Hard disk
{path-to-disk file} has more than one child hard disk (2). or...
- For the "parent" snapshot, VirtualBox takes a long time acting like it is
merging the differences, and then fails (completely crashes). Ubuntu's message
whenever an application crashes appears with "The application Oracle VM
VirtualBox has closed unexpectedly"
- This is the only line I see in /var/log/syslog: Dec 15 05:52:20
Develop-CENTS kernel: [ 2082.315873] DeleteSnap[6852]: segfault at 20 ip
00000000006e3eab sp 00007f8c97893888 error 4 in VBoxSVC[400000+45b000]
So then I read that if I clone the VM, that would essentially get rid of the
snapshots for me, and then I could increase the disk size on the cloned
VM.That's what I did, and I then successfully installed Threshold 2.About a
week later, as I was doing some work, I noticed that Windows was telling me
that it wasn't activated. I went into the Settings, and the message I read
indicated was that "Windows 10 isn't activated because the previous version of
Windows was never activated."Fortunately, I had a backed up copy of the old VM
(pre-clone, and pre-updating to Threshold 2). I turned that back on, and
confirmed that Windows was indeed activated.So I'm up a creek.
- Why the heck did Windows 10 lose its activation on the clone that I
created?
- Can I create a clone without Windows losing its activation?
- If not, how can I delete these snapshots, which are preventing me from
resizing the hard disk that Windows uses?
--
David
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