Ticket #11962 (closed defect: fixed)
creating new virtual disk detects host free disk space incorrectly => Fixed in SVN
| Reported by: | harb | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Component: | other |
| Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.16 | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Guest type: | other | |
| Host type: | other |
Description
The free-disk-space is checked on the drive where "VirtualBox VMs" folder resides instead of inside this folder. The folder is in my case a directory symlink to another drive so the free space inside this folder is different than in any of the parent folders or the drive where the symlink resides.
to create such symlink use: symlink /d "VirtualBox VMs" "d:\somedir\VirtualBox VMs" (while in the folder c:\Users\user\ where user is some admin user on windows; this assumes you moved "c:\Users\user\VirtualBox VMs\" folder to "d:\somedir\" before executing the symlink command)
I'll add some screenshots illustrating the free disk space differences and the error I get from virtualbox in this case (trying to make a 20gig virtual disk)
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virtualbox disk space check fail 2.png
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- virtualbox error
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virtualbox disk space check fail 3.png
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- free disk space differences (seen by windows)
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virtualbox disk space check fail 4 symlinkd.png
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added by harb 4 years ago.
- how that dir symlink look from console
Change History
Changed 4 years ago by harb
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virtualbox disk space check fail 2.png
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Changed 4 years ago by harb
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free disk space differences (seen by windows)
Changed 4 years ago by harb
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virtualbox disk space check fail 4 symlinkd.png
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how that dir symlink look from console
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by frank
- Summary changed from creating new virtual disk detects host free disk space incorrectly to creating new virtual disk detects host free disk space incorrectly => Fixed in SVN
Thank you for the report. This problem will be fixed in the next major release.
virtualbox error