vmware directory for installing guest OS is Full? ?

[icedT]

ok . . the MAIN distro being used is Slackware12.0 -- and it has a TOTAL space of 20G (because my entire HD is 80G and is partitioned for different distros )

the Vmware version was downloaded from



http://www.vmware.com/download/server/



and the version is:

VMware-server-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz

[Rob Leadbeater]

OK. So you're using VMware Server 1.0.3, however I'm still not clear on the physical setup...

When you log on to the physical machine (running Slackware ...?) what do you see when you issue the command "df -h" ?

Cheers,

Rob

[icedT]

ok il update this post ASAP. .. il check it when i come home. . thanks for the replies :)

[Ivan Ferreira]

Your best option is to create a virtual disk with a size "lower" than the free space of the partition that will hold the virtual disk file.

Also, uncheck "allocate all space now".

[icedT]

icey@darkstar:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc5 1.9G 489M 1.4G 26% /
/dev/hdc6 93M 22M 66M 25% /boot
/dev/hdc8 954M 36M 919M 4% /tmp
/dev/hdc9 954M 57M 898M 6% /var
/dev/hdc10 4.7G 3.3G 1.5G 70% /usr
/dev/hdc11 9.4G 514M 8.9G 6% /home
/dev/hda1 19G 14G 5.1G 74% /mnt/windows
/dev/hda5 20G 12G 8.0G 60% /mnt/winback


cd /usr/lib/vmware :

ls -l (disregarded the small files)

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1067841 2007-08-19 12:51 vix-perl.tar.gz

so i think this file causes (the process of installing the guest OS to be full? ) i mean even if im not starting the guest os install yet.. my /var is already at 70%...and the file is already a gig in size...? hmm any ideas IF i can rm this file?

[icedT]

CORRECTION. . . i made a mistake on my last post.. the df output is correct BUT i typed the wrong fs in my message.. the 70%% is /usr and NOT /var. .

just moved the tar.gz file in my /mnt/winback

and i am now testing the guest os install IF it will result in the same OUTPUT... il update this post at once. .. thanks

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

You seem to be confusing things...

The file you've just moved is only 1067841 bytes in size - just over 1MB. That's not the cause of /var filling up...

Looking back at your original problem, we can see that your virtual machines files are being stored under /var However that file system is only 954MB in size, which will quickly get used up when creating VMs.

/var/lib/vmware/VirtualMachines appears to be the default area for storing virtual machine files on VMware Server. As /var is so small, you will probably want to move that data store somewhere else.

Refer to the admin guide (page 123) here:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/server_admin_manual.pdf

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

[Marcel Burggraeve]

Looks like there's some confusion here.
Even though the disk of your guest OS is virtual the requested diskspace needs to be allocated by the host OS.
When you create a guest environment with a disk of let's say 30GB a 'containerfile' with the size of 30GB will be created.
Inside this 'containerfile' you will have your guest OS.
This 'containerfile' is the .vmdk file you mentioned earlier.
There's no such thing as compression as such so a guest OS of xGB will take xGB of diskspace.

The only solution might be to do like Ivan suggested, uncheck allocate all space now.
However, I have no clue what kind of problems you run into if you do this and the disk goes to 100%

[icedT]

actually i always "UNCHECK" the radio button allocate disk space. . whenever i create the Virtual disk.. i will update this post as soon as i have the time to install again the guest OS.. and try TO install it in another location which is bigger in space compared to /var as what Rob said (through the link he gave)

:)

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

Another thing to bear in mind when deciding where to put your virtual machine files, is the amount of virtual memory (RAM) that you assign.

Assuming the VMware Server works in a similar fashion to ESX Server then you get a file on the system which is the size of the memory you allocated.

So for example if you created a VM with 128MB RAM, and 4GB Disk space, then you'll need at least 4224MB free in the file system hosting your virtual machines.

Cheers,

Rob

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