On Saturday, 27 July 2019 10:36:04 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> On Saturday, July 27, 2019, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:15:49 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> > > Some time back i moved from vmware to virtualbox, and am currently
> > > wondering if there are some old vmware files i can remove. Virtualbox
> > 
> > uses
> > 
> > > the old vmware disk files, so first i checked via atime and lsof.
> > > 
> > > Why does atime not show all the files that lsof shows were open?
> > 
> > They are snapshots and unless saved I would think they are removed when
> > you
> > shut down VBox.
> 
> Pretty sure  they are the vmware disk files and are used by vbox

Hmm ... I only have two files being accessed here on a running VBox Windows 7 
VM.  'VBox.log' and 'MSWindows7_dyn.vdi'


> There were other snapshot files that  ive already moved, and as expected it
> didn’t cause vbox any problems
> 
> > Incidentally, I can't start VMs when the gentoo host is running kernel
> > 4.19.57.  I get an error about "Failed to attach the network LUN
> > (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)."  Kernel 4.19.52 works fine.
> > 
> > Are you getting any such problems?
> > 
> > Im on 5.2. Did you rebuild the modules for the new kernel?

Yes, I did and checked they are loading.  I'll check again.
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Regards,

Mick