On 17/05/12 18:10, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
My beating heart is now still and I now can go ahead and create this VB :-) .
I was thinking of creating VB with 200GB of space. Too much? 100GB? Depends on what you want to do with it, but even 10Gb is sufficient.
-- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.6°C) you do not allocate hard disk space to virtual box. you allocate it to the virtual box vms, when you create the virtual disk for each vm. soo, each vm you create will have it's own virtual hard drive. and you can make the virtual hard drive for ms4 about 20 gigs, your xp vm about 40 gb and so on. in general, anything linux can live in less than 20gb, for windoze you would need to at least double it. of course, if you really know what you want and it is something -nix / -nux and you only use console,
On Wednesday 16 May 2012 09:42:25 pm Per Jessen wrote: the whole thing can live in less than 1 gb:) good luck, d.
I think that what you are really talking here is about installing VB with the DYNAMIC option for space allocation. Doing this has the price of less than perfect performance as there is an overhead in trying to ensure that the disc space keeps growing to accommodate additional data - until at least when the VMs are stabilised. I want to avoid this by simply assigning enough disc space to cover all my current and potential needs. And doing so I also have a clear idea of how much space I would need on an external HDD to do backups of the VMs. Am I wrong in my thinking? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org