[PLUG] Virtualbox Issue?

chris (fool) mccraw gently at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 18:51:37 UTC 2015


perhaps you can install it to and run it from the remote shared directory
you use for storing your recordings?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:

> On 12/01/2015 10:10 AM, Ken Stephens wrote:
> > Dick Steffens wrote:
> >> On 12/01/2015 07:59 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> I run Windows 7 on VirtualBox.
> >>> To be sure I understand correctly, Ubuntu 14.04 is the host OS running
> >>> the VirtualBox hypervisor, which runs a VM instance that has Windows 7
> >>> as a guest OS.  Is that correct?
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >>>> The virtual C: drive has a capacity of 24.8 GB, and has only 18.6 MB
> >>>> free space.
> >>> ...
> >>>> I thought it was an Win7 problem, but can't find any large files in
> >>>> temporary or hidden locations, so I'm wondering if it's somehow
> related
> >>>> to VitrualBox.
> >>> What is taking up the 24.8 GB?  Is there a Windows 7 equivalent to
> >>> running a 'du' ? e.g.
> >>>
> >>> du -ma / | sort -rn | head
> >> I don't know about an equivalent command, but a slow and dirty approach
> >> was to search through the places where temporary files go, and I set it
> >> so I could see hidden files. I didn't find anything out of the ordinary,
> >> just a small handful of files showing KB sizes.
> >>
> >>> A quick-n-dirty workaround may be to attach another virtual disk to
> >>> your Windows 7 instance.
> >> I spoke with tech support for GearPlayer. He said that they run
> >> GearPlayer on virtual Windows 7 machines hosted on Windows Server, but
> >> he's never seen a virtual Windows 7 install in less than 40 or 50 GB,
> >> and that that's barely enough to keep up with Windows updates. I've got
> >> mine in 25 GB. I did the install back in August of 2014, but I can't
> >> find any notes, so I don't know if I took a default virtual disk size or
> >> set something on my own. I've got a laptop with another transcription
> >> program on it that I'll use this morning to get today's work out, but
> >> after that I'll follow up on some instructions I found on the web for
> >> increasing the size of the virtual hard drive. If worse comes to worse I
> >> can always recreate the virtual machine and reinstall GearPlayer on it.
> >> There's an advantage to this in that I would do the installation on the
> >> 1TB drive Ubuntu 14.04 is on instead of the drive Ubuntu 12.04 is on,
> >> which is where I installed Windows 7. I've been pointing VirtualBox at
> >> that drive to get the Windows 7 virtual machine. It appeared to be
> >> working for a couple of weeks. I noticed that I had something under 100
> >> MB available on the virtual drive yesterday, but this morning it's down
> >> to zero. I don't know what would be filling up that drive. I don't run
> >> anything else on it except GearPlayer, and the tech support guy
> >> confirmed that since I keep the audio files on a shared drive, and don't
> >> use Gear Player features to fetch the files from an ftp site, and don't
> >> use their "completed" feature to save backup copies of the audio files
> >> when I'm finished with them, that there's nothing GearPlayer is doing to
> >> chew up space.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the reply. I'll dig into it more after I finish today's
> >> assignment.
> >>
> >>
> > Dick,
> >
> > Get windirstat command at https://windirstat.info/download.html.  It
> > will get you a map of your windows system that will tell you exactly
> > what you need to know about file sizes.
>
> Thanks. I'll do that. But at this point there's zero available space, so
> I'll need to extend the virtual drive first before I can install it.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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