VirtualBox and Harddrives
Thursday, 21st April, 2011
Whilst playing with VirtualBox I came across a recurring error, which failed almost silently. I was installing XP and Fedora on one virtual drive, which was given ample space to accommodate both, but Fedora repeatedly failed to find enough space to automatically partition. Upon investigation I found the drive had enough space, yet still no luck. So I increased the size of the virtual drive, still no luck, increased it again, no luck. It turns out that the issue wasn’t the virtual drive that was too small, but my real hard drive that didn’t have enough space to fit the virtual drive on! I thought it interesting that the error would show up within the virtual machine, rather than being highlighted on the host as the issue was on the host side. Yet another example of errors which don’t always mean what they say…