Disable Snapshot to save disk space

[Fabio Pagoti]

Hello all,

I have a Mac OS X 10.7.5 running a Windows 2003 server 64bit on VirtualBox. I have a disk space of 750GB and believe it or not I have a problem to install an application in the Windows 2003 due to lack of disk space.

The application to be installed is very large and I reversed 3 partitions on the VM. The first of 20GB for the OS, the second of ~320GB for the application and another one of ~60GB to keep the setup files. More than half of my HD.

I have created a few snapshots during the VM configuration to have some backups in case anything wrong happens. Then I realized that the snapshots were consuming the other half of my disk during the installation progress. As a consequence I run out of disk space in the middle of this process. As a matter of fact, the partition reserved for the application remains empty after the installation is aborted and the snapshot that kills my HD seems to be a snapshot of this 320GB partition.

I am wondering if it is possible to disable snapshots and make VirtualBox always save data on the virtual disks I reserved for the VM when setting it up. It's ok not to have a backup for me now.

Thanks,

[mpack]

If you no longer require the snapshots then you can delete them. Be aware however that manipulating snapshots itself requires disk space for temporary working. If the host runs out of disk space you can have trouble. You should free up as much space as possible, and consider making a backup copy of the VM folder to another drive.