Error ID: BLKCACHE_IOERR

[WelshMatt983]

Hi guys, I installed windows 7 yesterday and everything was working fine yesterday, this morning, however I tried installing microsoft office 2010 and it got stuck on 98% and froze. I re-started and keeps freezing now and gives me the above error code. I know its obviously not enough disk space but I can't even get on in Safe mode to delete the file.

Any advice on solution to this, I did back up my Mac this morning maybe restore from back up, but is there any was I can increase the space allocated maybe?

[WelshMatt983]

Oops I've gone onto Windows instead of Mac section!

[mpack]

Moved to Windows Guests since the Q doesn't seem to be about the host.

Also see: How to resize a Virtual Drive.

Why is your drive so small? Tell me you didn't go for a fixed size drive...

[scottgus1]

Need more info and a coherent-er description of the problem. There's mention of a Mac host, an install of Windows 7, MS Office 2010, something ("it") that got stuck on 98%, and being short on disk space, and a BLKCACHE_IOERR from somewhere, and a failure to boot to Safe Mode (I'll assume this refers to the Windows 7 guest, since MS products call their recovery booting "Safe Mode", I don't know what Macs call it).

Was the BLKCACHE_IOERR in the MS Office installer? the Windows 7 guest? Virtualbox? Which system is low on disk space? The Mac? The Windows 7 guest?

Minimal information needed to be able to help

[WelshMatt983]

I'm not to sure to be honest, I wasn't sure how much space I needed, think I made it 25GB off the top of my head, I don't know whether it was fixed size drive?

[mpack]

25GB sounds like it would be ok - small but tolerable for a modern OS. Which argues that it's a dynamic disk and you ran out of disk space on the host. The only way to fix that is to free up space by deleting files, or move the VM to secondary storage.

If you need to continue this discussion then post a VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click and "Show Log" in the GUI, save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a compressed file, attach the compressed file here.