Hello SuSE people,
I presently multiboot 4 separate os's. I've been thinking about installing virtualbox to see how it works but I know little about it. One of my questions is:
Where and what does the host do with the guest files? Should I have a separate dedicated partition for it? How much space is needed? I've googled a little bit but have not come up with any specific answers.
Bob S
The guest file is a virtual disk, and there can be more than one for a particular virtual machine. The size of the file depends entirely on your use case; it can be pre-allocated or it can be defined as "dynamic" which means the file size will be only what is required to hold what is installed on it, and it will subsequently expand to accomodate data/sw as added. There is a small performance penalty using a dynamic file. The OS being installed will see the file simply like any other raw disk. Also bear in mind that with the "shared folder" feature, you can use your regular hard disk for data accessed by both the host and the guest. IIRC there may also now be a feature to use actual hard disk rather than a virtual disk file, but I haven't used that. I've built a lot of vm's and have never seen a need for doing so, nor for a dedicated partition. YMMV. Take a look at the VBox manual, it's quite thorough. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org