Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #3535
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- Mar 13, 2009 4:12:34 PM (15 years ago)
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Ticket #3535 – Description
initial v1 1 I'm running a Windows XP VM in VirtualBox 2.1.4 under RedHat (RHEL) 5.3. It's on a very beefy box -- Dell M6400 quad core extreme with 12GB RAM and an SSD.1 I'm running a Windows XP VM in VirtualBox 2.1.4 under !RedHat (RHEL) 5.3. It's on a very beefy box -- Dell M6400 quad core extreme with 12GB RAM and an SSD. 2 2 3 3 In general the VM runs great. More stable and faster than when Windows is running natively on my other laptop. The problem that I encounter is when I have active files located on a VB shared folder; I often will get a Delayed Write Failed error message and the files may be mangled. One file where this was occurring frequently was my primary Outlook data folder. I had to move it out of the shared folder and into the Windows dedicated C: drive. 4 4 5 5 I constructed the shared folder as follows: 6 1. Create a new partition on my secondary hard drive using RHEL fdisk command7 2. Format the partition as an ext38 3. Mount the file system on Linux (as /windows_home)6 1. Create a new partition on my secondary hard drive using RHEL fdisk command 7 2. Format the partition as an ext3 8 3. Mount the file system on Linux (as /windows_home) 9 9 10 In VirtualBox, I then defined the Shared Folder for the VM using the administration GUI tool. The folder shows up on Windows as a Network Attached Drive mapped to a drive letter. Typical nonintensive tasks can manipulate the files fine. But if an application updates the file frequently, such as an Outlook PST, xcopy of a large number of files to an alternate drive, Word save files, etc., I receive the delayed write error. Attempts to backup the folder from Windows using tools like xcopy and robocopy fail with this error too, and I get very nervous going more than a day or two without a complete, versioned backup of my work.10 In !VirtualBox, I then defined the Shared Folder for the VM using the administration GUI tool. The folder shows up on Windows as a Network Attached Drive mapped to a drive letter. Typical nonintensive tasks can manipulate the files fine. But if an application updates the file frequently, such as an Outlook PST, xcopy of a large number of files to an alternate drive, Word save files, etc., I receive the delayed write error. Attempts to backup the folder from Windows using tools like xcopy and robocopy fail with this error too, and I get very nervous going more than a day or two without a complete, versioned backup of my work. 11 11 12 12 My intent is to be able to share access and update of these files concurrently from within Linux and Windows. I really don't want to be copying or synchronizing files between the environments, particularly since it is my intent to eventually be running 4-6 VM's concurrently. The complexity goes up exponentially with the number of VM's sharing the folder(s).
