vmware directory for installing guest OS is Full? ?

[icedT]

yes thanks i will not forget the ratings on the answers/replies.. il do it when i have come up with the guest OS installation.. BTW in the memory/RAM section i always choose / accept the recommended/ default settings of the certain section. .

[icedT]

root@darkstar:/home/vmware/VirtualMachines# ls -l
total 1305
-rw------- 1 icey users 1376256 2007-09-12 19:03 VL5.8
-rw------- 1 icey users 0 2007-09-12 19:03 VL5.8.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 icey users 577 2007-09-12 19:03 VL5.8.vmx*
root@darkstar:/home/vmware/VirtualMachines# 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 59M 896M 7% /var
/dev/hdc10 4.7G 3.3G 1.5G 70% /usr
/dev/hdc11 9.4G 535M 8.8G 6% /home
/dev/hda1 19G 14G 5.1G 74% /mnt/windows
/dev/hda5 20G 12G 8.0G 60% /mnt/winback
/dev/hdd 700M 700M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom


/dev/hdc11 9.4G 3.6G 5.8G 39% /home


root@darkstar:/home/vmware/VirtualMachines# ls -l
total 3170278
-rw------- 1 icey users 536870912 2007-09-12 19:04 564d8c01-536b-505b-9228-bafa91babb63.vmem
-r--r--r-- 1 icey users 11 2007-09-12 19:04 564d8c01-536b-505b-9228-bafa91babb63.vmem.WRITELOCK
-rw------- 1 icey users 2736783360 2007-09-12 19:35 VL5.8
-r--r--r-- 1 icey users 11 2007-09-12 19:04 VL5.8.WRITELOCK
-rw------- 1 icey users 0 2007-09-12 19:03 VL5.8.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 icey users 865 2007-09-12 19:04 VL5.8.vmx*
-rw------- 1 icey users 8664 2007-09-12 19:04 nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1 icey users 27017 2007-09-12 19:34 vmware.log


UPDATE -- set my VM to 10G an installed in /home. . BTW since at first WHILE the guest OS is not installed yet my /home is only 6% and now when the guest OS is installed .. its now 39% DOES it mean that EVERYTIME i install a guest OS my /home will also increase? if that's the case.. I have only limited number of guest OS to be installed. . .

[Rob Leadbeater]

> DOES it mean that EVERYTIME i install a
> guest OS my /home will also increase?

Yes. Each virtual machine will create a set of files, the size of which will be up to the size of the virtual disks you created.

So if you created a virtual machine with a 10GB virtual disk, then you will potentially need at least 10GB of space in /home.

If you haven't got the "allocate all space now" option checked then the files will be created smaller. In your case, you've currently got a 2.6GB file, however that file size could grow up to 10GB if you fill the VM's file system with data - although things will probably fall over in a heap before that, as /home is only 9.4GB in size.

Cheers,

Rob

[icedT]

actually I DID NOT CHOSE the "allocate disk space" so that means. . every time i install a Guest OS, my /home will increase so I will be limited to a fixed number of guest OS.. maybe 2 or 3 more guest OS?

BTW my plan in setting up the VM is just for experimentation and administration. .at least i have this "development" distro.. since my "production" OR live distro is the one that i had installed in my HD (which is slackware)

THANKS TO ALL !! I already submitted the points I had given on your replies! (^^,)

Hats off to everyone! til next time!

[icedT]

latter reply of the contributors :)