[gentoo-user] Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox)

[gentoo-user] Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox)

[meino.cramer]

HI,

I set up virtual box successfully with one image. So nice so far.
Unfortunately I did not recognize early enought, thet the image was
placed into my home directory, which is short of splace.

Can I move that folder (".Virtualbox") to another bigger place
-- and what/how do I need to tell Virtualbox about that -- or
am I already  "lost in space" (...I mean...the opposite of it ;)

Best regards.
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox)

[Mick]

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On Sunday 20 Jul 2014 15:22:30 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I set up virtual box successfully with one image. So nice so far.
> Unfortunately I did not recognize early enought, thet the image was
> placed into my home directory, which is short of splace.
> 
> Can I move that folder (".Virtualbox") to another bigger place
> -- and what/how do I need to tell Virtualbox about that -- or
> am I already  "lost in space" (...I mean...the opposite of it ;)

If you have run out of space you may have corrupted the image.

The settings and path for the image file are kept in 
~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml

You can edit these there, move the image to whichever partition you want and 
try to start it up once more.  With a bit of luck no damage happened, 
otherwise you will have to delete it and start again.

PS. Don't forget snapshots, which also are saved in the same area of your ~/

HTH.

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox)

[meino.cramer]

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> [14-07-20 16:36]:
> On Sunday 20 Jul 2014 15:22:30 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > HI,
> > 
> > I set up virtual box successfully with one image. So nice so far.
> > Unfortunately I did not recognize early enought, thet the image was
> > placed into my home directory, which is short of splace.
> > 
> > Can I move that folder (".Virtualbox") to another bigger place
> > -- and what/how do I need to tell Virtualbox about that -- or
> > am I already  "lost in space" (...I mean...the opposite of it ;)
> 
> If you have run out of space you may have corrupted the image.
> 
> The settings and path for the image file are kept in 
> ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
> 
> You can edit these there, move the image to whichever partition you want and 
> try to start it up once more.  With a bit of luck no damage happened, 
> otherwise you will have to delete it and start again.
> 
> PS. Don't forget snapshots, which also are saved in the same area of your ~/
> 
> HTH.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick

Hi Mick,

thanks a lot for your help!

The space of my $HOME ran was to small for makeing another image.
The image itsself is absolutely ok.
Sorry for not being understandable regarding this...english is not
my mother tongue... :)

Best regards,
mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox)

[walt]

On 07/20/2014 07:22 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> I set up virtual box successfully with one image. So nice so far.
> Unfortunately I did not recognize early enought, thet the image was
> placed into my home directory, which is short of splace.
> 
> Can I move that folder (".Virtualbox") to another bigger place
> -- and what/how do I need to tell Virtualbox about that 

Yes, move .Virtualbox anyplace you want, then make a symlink named
.Virtualbox in your home directory pointing to the real .Virtualbox
directory.  Don't forget the leading "." when making the symlink.