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Can't boot VHD image after resizing in VirtualBox
I have a pretty big mess to sort.
I have a 512GB VHD which I use to store private backups. It started running out of storage so I looked online how to make it bigger (as I assumed VHD's probably just ...
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VMBox, Actual Size virtual size and Disk Usage give 3 diferent value
I have a Virtual Machine on Virtual box that has weird disk usage value, I'm trying to launch a Docker app. During npm install I get an error of insufficent space and can't understand why.
On my Disk ...
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How do you pipe the output of vboxmanage clonemedium into dd
I want to pipe my converted .vdi file into /dev/sda. My box.vdi is 2TB and my HDD is also 2TB, but the system I am doing the conversion from is only 128GB. All the resources (ref1 and ref2) I can find ...
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Accessing physical disk from VirtualBox: Access Denied
I am trying to run a VirtualBox machine from a physical disk.
I read that I have to run
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\...
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Install windows 11 on a physical disk thrught virtualbox, to use later as normal windows 11 boot
i will soon update my build from more than 10 years old.
is possible to use virtualbox or any other VM software to format a real/physical disk and install windows 11 for later use this disk in the new ...
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How can I transfer data from a virtualbox .vhd to a physical harddrive?
I have a virtual machine (Arch Linux) on a Windows 10 Host. The virtual hard drive is stored in a .vhd file.
I have a desktop that is currently Windows but I'm going to dual boot with the main ...
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Set correctly size allocation unit
I have a SATA 320GB 16Mb cache hard drive running at 7,200RPM. I want to use it to store various .vdi virtual machines and access sporadically. I'm not going to do heavy tasks with them either, I'm ...
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What is Windows doing with my harddisk after boot and before login?
I'm playing around with Win10 VM live snapshots, to minimize startup times for my CI-runners.
The idea is to have a pre-booted snapshot that can be launched within seconds.
So I'm preparing an image (...
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Hard Drive space used but files are in found.000 and cannot be accessed
I had used Virtualbox for a virtual machine which had froze for a long period of time and would not close by shutting it down normally. I closed it by clicking the cross and restarted my machine. I ...
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HDD or USB stick for keeping VirtualBox disk images for efficiency and durability?
I recently replaced a storage device and copied all my VirtalBox VMs to a large USB stick. The USB stick advertizes IO performance so I thought VMs may run efficiently out of it, but a few minutes ...
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Compact VirtualBox disk images which are not attached but still have child images
I have been creating some VMs on the fly: set up one, created a snapshot, made a few changes, cloned it, repeated the process with the clone, and then with a clone of the clone etc.
After cleaning up ...
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Use Virtual Box to Boot an Existing Disk Partition and have Changes Saved to that Disk Partition
So on my Laptop I dual boot Arch Linux and Open BSD 6.9.
What I want to do is to within Arch Linux be able to boot my Open BSD partition using Virtal Box, use the BSD operating system normally in the ...
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Newbie to virtual box can a vm using the same hdd give the host pc viruses
I just recently got into virtual box and have been using it and I have one question
Let's say my main pc had a 2 ssds and 1 hdd 1 ssd os 1 ssd for fast load time games and the hdd for misc games pics ...
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Does VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI process unallocated space?
convertfromraw can be used to produce a dynamically sized VDI file. Does it process unallocated disk space?
For example, say /dev/sda points to a 1 TB hard drive with partitions on the first 10 GB and ...
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Recovering virtual machine from increasing disk size
I lacked free space on my VirtualBox Ubuntu 20.04 desktop virtual machine, so I desided to just go to VirtualBox client settings and resize VDI from 32 to 50 GB. After that the machine doensn't boot: ...
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add space to /dev/sda1 kali linux
i have never done such operations on my kali linux. I want to add more disk space and I have done the following.
In Virtual Box settings I have added more space.
Done
This has added more space on ...
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Extract files from disk raw image
I have two raw images of some old IDE HDD (one made without of any data correction and second made with). Trying to mount the images to the system by various methods do not work properly.
I use ...
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Virtualbox guest OS running too slow on a Windows host OS
I have a toshiba laptop with a samsung ssd 860 evo 500GB in which I have installed Windows 10 64 bits.
This is the main hard drive. Also I have a second hard drive (not ssd) into an optical drive ...
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How do you use an existing ext4 hard drive with VirtualBox?
I have an existing hard drive, an nvme drive with Ubuntu Linux on it. I have another nvme drive with Windows 10 that I use as my primary OS (games, web browsing, etc). While I could reboot between ...
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How can I set the boot order in VirtualBox with multiple hard disks?
The boot order setting of virtual box only allows to choose boot order between different classes of devices, like hard disk, optical, floppy, etc.
What I can do is to hit F12 during boot and choose ...
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Are VHD's (Virtual Hard Drives) safe?
So, All I'm asking is if Virtual Hard Drives are safe. Because I needed more space and well.. My external hard-drive only has around 50GB of space (30GB taken by the system), so I'm thinking of making ...
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converting parallels pvm files to virtualbox readable
I am having issues with parallels, and so I decided to go forth with migrating my stuff to virtualbox, since it's much better, it has always worked.
I've googled ways to convert a pvm file to hdd, ...
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Error USB3 UAS passthrough VMWare Workstation 15
Specs:
i7 5700 HQ
3x USB3 ports
Windows 10 1809
Tested not working:
Seagate 1TB USB3 HDD
Seagate 4TB USB3 HDD
Tested working:
Philips 32GB USB3 Flash Drive
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All of the devices work ...
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Why does my VirtualBox machine not have disk space when it is using a small portion of what I allotted it?
TL;DR: VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize virtual hard drive size. How to fix? FWIW, I used to run this same setup on VirtualBox 5.2 with Ubuntu 16.04 and MySQL 5.6 and never had ...
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VirtualBox: two or more OS in one usb disk "unmountable boot volume"
My goal:
For education purposes I've been asked to install Windows and Linux on the same usb and be able to boot them from virtual box
My problem:
Windows crashes with "unmountable boot volume"
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How do I stop Windows from stopping write access to an unmounted EFI partition on a disk that is not used by Windows?
Setting: The computer has two or more physical hard drives. One is entirely dedicated to a Linux installation, one entirely to Windows. Both can be booted up. The system is configured for EFI booting.
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Virtual Box shows virtual size as 59.7 GB but actual size is 6.84 GB. Need to expand the root to use full 60GB [duplicate]
I was trying to install software into a CentOS Linux. It shows that I don't have enough space. When I do df -h I get the following result
[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used ...
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Making Windows XP installed in Virtual Box 6.0.4 detect a new hard disk after being installed
I installed Win XP 64 bits in Virtual Box 6.0.4 installed in Windows 10. Naively, I thought that if I connected a new hard disk I had a chance of this WindowsXP in Virtual Box could have detected it. ...
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VIRTUALBOX RESIZE PARTITION | Archlinux | guest not recognizing new increased disk size
UPDATED-STATEMENT: 20190206@094017@WED Post created
UPDATED-STATEMENT: 20190208@153938@FRI Attempted to resize partition but unable to get more than 8GB for root or sda2 in my case
UPDATED-STATEMENT: ...
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Full Clone VDI with VBoxManage.exe
What is the command-line switch that I should use to create a full clone of a given vdi?
I want to be able to clone the virtual machine such that all files, folders and applications are also copied ...
