On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 05:32, dwgallien wrote:
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.
Just a bit more on this.... The default for most installed Linux guests is 8GB... if you use the dynamic allocation, you only use up as much as the OS needs up to a max of 8GB, or whatever you set as the disk size. Once it hits that limit, it doesn't grow any more. I've never used more than this... in fact most of my Linux guest installs rarely go above 1.5GB. As for a dedicated partition... I agree with dwgallien... there is no need. The VM is just a file. I store all mine in my /home/$USER. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org