<div dir="ltr">My two cents: Create a temporary virtual drive, boot a Clonezilla .iso in VirtualBox to backup the current VM drive to that temporary drive you just created. Once done create a larger virtual drive and then run Clonezilla again to restore the backup image from that temporary virtual drive to the new larger virtual drive. Then make the new larger virtual drive the primary drive of the VM. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 10/13/2013 06:15 PM, Ron Frazier
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<pre>The host computer intentionally doesn't have java on it for security reasons. So I cannot run eclipse that way.</pre>
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There is no reason to do that. That said, if that's what you want
to do, the performance hit is all yours. :-)<div class="im"><br>
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<pre>I was about to get it working, then I ran into this disk space problem. The emulator won't boot. I have about 4 hours invested in configuring this vm, so the redoing it route represents a substantial degree of pain. I may try to delete the swap space and annex some of that digital real estate.</pre>
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It is a good idea to install "full-featured" VMs with a minimum of
25 GB of space, all on a single / partition, and as I mentioned in
my previous email, on top of LVM. This gives you a great deal of
flexibility should you need to grow later—in fact, it's one of the
major reasons behind the existence of LVM.<div class="im"><br>
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<pre>You would think you could just click a button in virtualbox and change the hard drive limits.</pre>
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This is difficult for a number of reasons.<br>
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When an operating system is installed on a hard disk—physical or
virtual—it comes with partition tables and partitions on it. For
BIOS partitions, the partition table exists at the beginning of the
disk. For GPT-formatted disks, which should be used by modern
systems, there are <b>two</b> copies of the partition table—one at
the beginning of the disk and one at the end of the disk.<br>
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Because this is a virtual <b>HDD</b> and <b>HDD</b>s cannot be
resized, well, that's a reasonable limitation.<br>
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What it boils down to is that you add disk space to a VM the same
way you do to a real host: Add a second drive and append it to your
setup (if you're using LVM), or create a second drive and move the
data over to it (hopefully putting LVM on that so that you have the
ability to grow later).<div class="im"><br>
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— Mike<br>
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