On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:03:16PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > C:\ 225 GB: windows 8.1 O/S. (factory installed) > E:\ 100 GB: intended for win10 .vdi files > F:\ 100 GB: intended for win2012r2 .vdi files > G:\ 100 GB: intended for win8.1 .vdi files
I'm just curious, why not simply leave your c: drive as one drive, and put all your vdi files there? > MY NEWBIE QUESTIONS: > > (a) what is the SAFE workflow to move the above .vdi file to my logical E: > drive and tell vBox i've done that? Open the settings of the machine in question. Go to the storage tab, and locate the controller where the vdi file is attached. This would probably be sata0. Right click on the controller, and select remove attachment. You need also to go into the media manager, and find the vdi file in question under the hard drives tab. From the actions menu, select remove. You will be asked if you want to remove the vdi file from known media, select yes or remove I can't remember which. In the next box that appears, select keep. Move the vdi file in question to your e: drive. Go back to the guest's settings, and attach the vdi file again from the new location by selecting the storage tab, selecting the sata controller, right clicking on it, and selecting add hard disk. > > (b) is there a way to tell vBox in advance where i want it to place each .vdi > that i create. > Yes, sort of. You can't change where vdi files go by default. What you can do is change where the files for the entire virtual machine go by default. To do this, you need to use vboxmanage. See chapter 8 of the virtualbox user's manual to read about vboxmanage. You want to invoke vboxmanage something like: vboxmanage setproperty machinefolder e:\ which would put all files including vdi files for a guest into e:\ when you create a new guest instance. > (c) if i take a snapshot of a .vdi, will it take as much hard disk space > as the .vdi before the snapshot? (i.e., if .vdi is 20gb, will .vdi plus > snapshot be 40gb?) > No, not unless you replace every byte in the original vdi. The snapshot size as far as I know will be your original vdi file plus whatever writes are made to the virtual hard disk after you take a snapshot. Maybe someone else can explain this better if it doesn't make sense. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
