Virtualbox decrease more disk space kali windows host mac os x#
Mar 2011, 21:27 Primary OS: Mac OS X Leopard VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: WinXP, Ubuntu10 PS: I currently use VirtualBox 4.1.8 with Mac OS 10.6.8 as host on an Intel Core i3 iMac with Windows XP pro and Ubuntu 10 as guests. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a practical way of reducing the dynamic disk's maximum size for Windows and LInux guests.Ĭould anyone help? Thank you very much in advance.
Of course, when the disk space needed grows (again) it is relatively easy to expand the maximum size and then the corresponding partition. So, if one has a dynamic disk's maximum size much larger than currently needed (either because a too large size initially given, or after removal of large quantities of data), it is quite practical and space-efficient to reduce it. On the other hand, if the dynamic disk's maximum size isn't much larger than the currently needed space (let's say no more than 50% larger), those used-then-freed sectors will be automatically reused when disk occupation grows, or else, at worst that useless disk space is reasonably bounded. Although this useless and potentially quite large space can be compacted, this requires a manual and annoying operation to be repeated regularly. Guests (as Windows) may allocate disk sectors which, even after being freed, remain occupying virtual disk space. To reduce a dynamic disk's maximum size might seem at first useless, but it might well be quite interesting!Ĭonsider the case of a dynamic disk which is initially given a large maximum size.
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