vbox dir free space

yournamehere · Post by **yournamehere** » 29. Sep 2008, 20:21

I put the ~/. vbox dir (incl "VDI/") on a 10G lvm partition, told the xp install to use fixed 9.xG then put a few unrelated files there and free space on the *.vdi partition is ~100M (so effectively 100% full) - will having the vbox dirs on a partition in this state cause the runtime virtualbox process(es) any problems? Like will it ever try to create some tmp swap in there or something like that?

I've had a couple seemingly random computer freezes (reset is all that works) w/1.6.6 and started wondering if my vbox dirs need more breathing room, even when it isn't specifically for windows itself.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 29. Sep 2008, 21:18

VB will only use the allocated space of the VDI. If the VDI cannot grow, or it's full, the VM will stall or crash (depends on the Guest OS, windows will just crash, Linux will be in Read Only). It's best to leave at least 1 GB of space on the VDI for Windows to use, as it has a variable sized pagefile by default.