My Linux VPS harddisk showing 390GB data used out of 500GB, but when i see in my whm panel its showing only 22GB harddisk used, how can i check and solve the problem. Please find the attached image also.
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You're looking at the VHD (virtual hard disk) container in your windows machine, not the disk usage value from inside the virtual machine.
The value in windows there is like looking on the front of a physical hard disk and reading "capacity: 500GB".
In the control panel, that's value is being called from inside the virtual machine, if you SSH into your virtual machine and run "df -h" it'll give you the correct usage as according to the virtual server itself.
The value in the windows machine is the size of the virtual machines entire hard disk drive.
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I have Virtual box and a customized vagrant box. The thing is that my own laptop (Macbook) has only about 10 Gb of free space. So I bought a 128Gb USB Stick. Now I need to figure out a way to boot up vagrant boxes on this usb stick instead of the default hard drive of my laptop.
Almost all google articles explain how to boot up from the usb. But this is not what I exactly want. Have you ever been through such a situation?
any help would be appreciated!
you can do 3 things :
move your vagrant home directory with all the box on the USB stick (if you have many boxes, it will save some space)
you need to set $VAGRANT_HOME environment variable
move your VirtualBox VM to the USB stick; Open VirtualBox preferences panel and select the new default location folder for VMs. You would need to remove/re-add the VMs in VirtualBox after you moved all files to the external hard drive
You can use Linked Clones
By default new machines are created by importing the base box. For large boxes this produces a large overhead in terms of time (the import operation) and space (the new machine contains a copy of the base box's image). Using linked clones can drastically reduce this overhead.
Linked clones are based on a master VM, which is generated by importing the base box only once the first time it is required. For the linked clones only differencing disk images are created where the parent disk image belongs to the master VM.
It will not help for existing vagrant VM but for your new project, it will help to save space
I have a Mac OS X (10.11) virtual machine. But it has stopped working. It just about finishes loading the virtual machine and then just freezes on a black screen. Anyway, I wanna know if there is a way for me to recover the files on that virtual machine (Specifically Xcode files). They were not part of the shared folders so I'm not sure how to access them from the host (which is a windows 10).
One way to do this is to do the following:
Create another virtual machine with Ubuntu
Attached the virtual disk image (.vdi) or whichever format you chose to store the OSX image as a second HDD to the Ubuntu VM.
Follow these instructions to enable HFS+ read write in the Ubuntu virual image.
Another way to do it would be to use something like Arsenal Image mounter which supports direct mounting of a bunch of virtual image formats including VDI, VHD etc.
I am trying to run mapr sandbox on a windows pc and with 8gb ram. But when I am trying to import the ovf its always saying ovf is corrupt while I have used multiple sources the ovf that is running on the other machine is not running in my one.I have tried to play with the configuration as well I also tried to extract and run the ovf as a vmdk but than there will be no config setup done for so that doesn't works as well. Now I have tried that on vmplayer it got install and said that the ovf format is unsupproted and when you try again it will not see the ovf file specification concern so it imported the file successfully but now its says that the vmx file is incompatible. I cannot find any way out?
I did the following for install it on Ubuntu 14.04 (being virtual machines the final destination, shouldn't be mayor problems):
On VirtualBox
Don't use the ovf file.
Create virtual machine (Machine -> New...)
On operating system, choose red hat 64 bits
On memory, you should asing 8 GB for the VM (or less, if you have an old computer like me :D)
Don't add virtual drives, you can't add both drives. Use the option "Do not add a Virtual Hard Drive"
After creation of the VM
Add both disks to the virtual machine, from settings
Configure the network of the machine as following
Attached to "Bridget Adapter"
Name: Eht0
Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop
Promiscuos mode: Deny
Cable Connected: yes
After this small steps, you should be capable of doing right click -> start, and start using MapR. Basically, we import the machine in a very complicated way, because the ovf file that is supposed to use for importing doesn't work!!
I was facing same issue on my Windows & machine. Here is what I did:
Again downloaded MapR sandbox for VMWare for windows.
Uninstalled previous version of VMWare which was giving this issue and downloaded VMWare Workstation Player for Windows 64 bit.
This time it worked.
As I had the chance to experiment with MapR recently-
MapR needs 6GB RAM
at least for the Virtual Box
(or the virtual machine you are using on windows)
if you don't grant the MapR these 6gb it is just not starting with some strange error saying nothing about that issue. You have 8gb ram on your windows machine so I recommend you to spend at least 6.2gb ram for the process.
p.s. Later I had other problems with the mapper as you can see with no support. (previous I found 1 more bug that they say will be fixed in MapR 6)
I am currently using MapR 5.2
I have downloaded the fedora iso image and trying to install it using virtual box on my mac. I dedicated a space of 40GB for my hard drive. Now I get this pop up message, I am worried if it will delete my data on hard-drive. I have enough free-space left on my hard-drive. but I don't want this partion to erase my exisiting data.
where is the partition created on file system.(ATA VBOX HARDDISK). Here is the screenshot:
Creating a virtual hard-disk in the host operating system (In virtualBox) will not overwrite any files on your hard drive. It will only utilize unused space on your disk. Overwriting the hard-disk in the guest operating system will not delete any files in the host, but it will overwrite/wipe files in the virtual hard disk (guest OS files).
I'm searching for a solution to boot a native OS on a hard disk as a virtual machine.
It's like what VMware Fusion did on a Mac which boots Windows in Boot Camp as a virtual machine.
In detail, I have Windows installed on /dev/sda2 and Ubuntu 11.10 on /dev/sda5.
Is there anyway to use a virtual machine software to boot the Windows on /dev/sda2 as a virtual machine while I'm using Ubuntu?
Yes, I did this long ago following this guide:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-nm/2008-February/000521.html
of course, always backup and be careful!
Essentially:
Used a USB 3.5 HD enclosure and connect the XP drive to it.
If the drive was shutdown uncleanly you may need to manually
mount it with the following command.
sudo mount ntfs-3g /dev/whereyourdriveis /mount/somemountpoint -o
force
Once the drive is mounted under linux contiunue to step 2.
Launch VMWare.
Go to File -> New -> New Virtual Machine.
Select "Custom"
Select Next
Select your operating system (i.e. Win XP)
Select Next
Give it a name like "WindowsXP"
Select Next
Specify processor One or Two
Select Next
Choose public or private (on a single-user machine this doesn't
matter)
Select Next
Select the memory to devote to the virtual machine. 512 MB is a
pretty useful number.
Select your network connection
Select Next.
Leave SCSI set to BusLogic
Select Next
Select Use Physical Disk
Select Next
Select Use Entire Drive
Select Next
Specify the place to save the VM
At this point you're done Select Power On to boot the Physical drive
in VMWare!
More Info: I should add, I have successfully done this, but I also had success using this method years even years before. So there are at least two known and tested ways for accomplishing this that I can tell you.
You can do this via VirtualBox raw disk access.
(http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html)
It basically creates a "virtual" disk file that points to the actual partition and loads it as a disk drive in the VM. I've installed Linux guest in VB on Windows host in such a way, and the installation can boot from the VM or by itself.
As answered, this also can be done in VirtualBox, this is the way that works for me
Always, make sure that you are running as Administrator(Windows) or Sudo(Linux), any changes that you do will write to the REAL disk, so be carefull
In Windows
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "\\.\PhysicalDrive1"
RAW host disk access VMDK file E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk created successfully.
In Linux
$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "~/linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "/dev/sda"
It will create a file with something around 1kb that is a link to the physical hard drive.
Then create a Virtual Machine as ever you do.
If you want to map only a partition
At Windows
\\.\Physicaldrive1 -partitions 1
(Disk start with 0, partitions
with 1)
At Linux (Much more intuitive)
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
etc.
Eventually you can get resolution issues
Eventually you can get resolution issues even after install vboxadditions, in my experience the problem is your /etc/X11/xorg.conf it is configured to your specific real hardware specs(I have a offboard GPU for example), least in my case I solve it simply removing this file (xorg auto configure at boot, only will not work if you set some specific setting), so run:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original && sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Reference
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=36694
https://romaimperator.com/?p=29