Re: VirtualBox help

[James]

Mike,

On 4 January 2012 08:11, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> In my GUB installation, my VirtualBox ran out of space and peetered out.
> So, I closed my VirtualBox down, resized the hard drive, and tried to boot 
> again.
>
> However, it cannot restart (some message about GNOME power something 
> something) and I think it's because the disk space is full.  It's not even 
> recognizing my root password :-/
> Does anyone know how to do delete files on a VBox from the outside so that I 
> can free up space?  I know this question is more appropriate for a VirtualBox 
> forum, but I figured that one of you may know...

There are a couple of quick things you could do.

1. 
http://n00bsys0p.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/mount-partitions-from-a-virtualbox-vdi-in-linux/

I've not mounted a .vdi file in linux myself but I know that in
Windows the various mount-and-browse .vdi files works well. I assume
it is all default which is .vdi (you can choose the kind of 'Virtual
Hard Disk' in later versions of VBOX - VHD, VMDK etc. but vdi is the
default).

2. Create a new machine definition but point to the 'old' vdi as the
boot drive - sometimes the problem is not so much in the OS but the
XML def file that is associated with the vdi file. As long as you
don't delete the vdi file itself (when you delete 'virtual machines'
from the Vbox GUI you can opt to keep the files - which include the
vdi file).

3. As 2 but use a new boot disk but also add an addition storage
device and again point to the old vdi file, as if it were an addition
separate piece of disk.

>
> Alternatively, if that doesn't work, does anyone know how to recover files 
> from a virtual hard drive?
>

See #1.

Hope this helps.

James

PS this is why I use snapshots in Vbox :)





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James