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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: ...
