Apparent bug in Host hard disk information.
Posted: 22. Dec 2012, 15:19
Using Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 on a MacBook Pro 2.5 GHZ Intel Core i5 w 4GB ram and 500GB hard disk host. Running OS X version 10.8.2 on the host. First time user of Virtualbox so in attempts to create a Windows 7 guest VM, I had to create and remove several guest VMs. Noticed that when I click on the host hard disk icon on the Mac OS desktop and then do a "Get Info" to see how much disk space has been used and/or is available on the host, the numbers are not correct. It reports a 499.25 GB capacity (correct) but says 588.18GB are available (not possible) and says that -- bytes are used (not correct). Is it possible that VirtualBox has scrambled this data when I created and removed several guest VMs? If so, how do I restore the correct information? Otherwise, I have been able to set up and run a Windows 7 guest and it seems to function quite well. Thank you for considering this matter.