[dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 6 06:49:39 CDT 2009


I think that is a 'feature' of all the VPC versions. Once created it can not
me modified externally. The other 'feature' is of course that it will not
allow a restore over the root drive which is what I would like to do. 

The next step I will try is to make an ISO of the original 60GB drive and
install it that way... That will take a long while.

Jim
  

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 3:21 PM
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With MS Virtual PC 2007 it appears that the Virtual Disk Manager allows you
to change the type and increase the size to fixed drive - 60GB. I've never
done it though. 

I just added a second virtual drive to one of my VMs (very long process).
Problem is the VM it's assigned to didn't pick it up except in Disk Manager,
where it doesn't let me do anything with it. I have yet to dig through any
documentation to see if there is something I need to do after creating it...

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 11:27 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Hi John:

Thanks for the info. I have a DriveImageXML ISO and the process of restoring
it to the new VPC (VirtualBox) drive is not an issue. The only problem is
that the restore features on DIX looks at the virtual drive it is about to
restore to and quits saying drive is not large enough.

Of course the virtual drive is variable so as data is entered it will just
keep the drive expanding until the maximum of the real drive is reached.

Now I have to figure out what to do. You can not re-set the size or
expansion method of the virtual drive when once created. The last thing I
would want is a fixed size drive...

There may be a method of simply generating a file(s) that forces the
expansion of the virtual drive up to 60GB... gross in concept but for now I
can not think of a better method...

Any thoughts?

Jim

  

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:56 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Hi Jim,
A few months ago someone here pointed out to me that Acronis Backup &
Recovery can turn a disk image into a VM.

HTH
John B.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 3:25 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Last night I installed a new ASUS M4A78 Plus mother (2600 MHz), in my wife's
old computer. The motherboard was $100, $30 x 2GB for memory and CPU.
Quad-core AMD... the whole arrangement came to about $230 with taxes... the
only additional expense was having to get an optical DVD drive, $40. 

The new board comes with a 1 GB NIC, two video card slots, eSATA/SATA
connection, 5 on the board and two off the back (all BIOS configurable), in
addition it come with 12 USB ports (auto-sensing; from legacy to high speed
2.0), sound and for backward compatibility it comes with COM and LPT port
connectors as well as IDE slots. The board also supports Firewire but I have
not figured out how to configure it as of yet.

She seems happy but for how long?

Now the question. I hope to just install a virtual PC (VirtualBox?) and
simple install the old XP boot drive in/on the virtual. The old drive was
60GB and the new one is 500GB. I remember there was some talk, on the Lists
about just backing up a drive on to a VPC but I have had no first hand
experience.

Any suggestions? Best methods? Best software? Gotcas? Etc..

MTIA
Jim

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