[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[John Blomfield]

Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn wrote:
> Just a note to thank Patrick & John for their interesting presentations (we
> got 2 for the price of 1<g>) on the Asus EEE from Patrick & on Virtual Box
> from John. I'm going to try out Virtual Box tomorrow.......
>
> 8-)
> Joan
>
>   
One thing to watch out for is when you create your virtual hard drive; 
the default is a 4GB dynamic drive which means that it will only take up 
the space you use UP TO A MAXIMUM of 4GB.  Not, as I thought incorrectly 
reading the manual, a minumum 4GB to any maximum.  So if you are 
planning to actually use the installation and not just test it out, pick 
something useful say 10 or 20GB.  My 4GB choked when I tried to install 
Open Office, not enough room.  However, I found a workaround!  You can 
add an additional two virtual hard drives just like a real computer i.e. 
Primary master is created with the initial installation and the CDRom is 
on Secondary Master, leaving Primary and Secondary slaves available for 
extra drives.  So create a second drive big enough for your needs say 
10GB attach it to the Virtual Machine, then curiously you have to format 
it just like a real drive before the guest OS will "see" it and get the 
OS to recognize new hardware.  Then you need a tool to clone your 4GB 
drive onto your 10GB drive (I used True Image) and change the 10GB drive 
to Primary Master and reboot.

Have fun.

John