[clue] Using a dedicated partition for VBox install

Levi S. Darrell levidarrell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 10:16:16 MST 2016 

Thanks everybody for the useful suggestions.

Creating a mount point for the partition, adding it to fstab, and then changing the default home folder in VBox accomplished what I wanted to do.

Is the meeting this evening open to all?

Best,

Levi

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 07:30:46AM -0700, clue-request at cluedenver.org wrote:
> 
> VBox will use space in the virtual disk that you create for that VM. So it will only use space in 
> sda if you put the virtual disk there.
> 
> So rather than trying to use sdb (or its partitions) from the VM you can use files and put those 
> somewhere on sdb. Mounting the relevant partitions is easily accomplished.
> 
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> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 17:54:57 -0700
> From: Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [clue] Using a dedicated partition for VBox install
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> I've done this in the past (about 3 years ago) so I could use a Windows
> partition running natively or via virtualization as needed. It worked ok,
> but activation between the two states became an issue (as one would
> expect). Unless you are also needing to run bare metal Windows for some
> reason, it really is much simpler to just run a normal VM with virtual disk
> containers. The performance hit on disk IO is pretty negligible once the
> disk space is allocated.
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> In my case, I ultimately ended up switching to VMware because for my
> application (3D stuff) the performance in virtualbox wasn't good enough.
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> From: Charles Burton <charles.d.burton at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [clue] clue Digest, Vol 62, Issue 2
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> Ah, I see.  I would recommend just mounting up that 1TB space via the fstab
> and then just installing your VDI on there.  That means you won't be trying
> to gain raw access to the disk and It'll let you make more efficient use of
> the space available.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Levi Darrell <levidarrell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > The reason I am doing it--and let me know if I am making some wrong
> > assumptions here--is that I only have 120 GB available on my SSD. When I
> > installed Debian on /dev/sda, I didn't set up an LVM, so in order to access
> > my 1 TB HDD (/dev/sdb) I have to manually mount /dev/sdb partitions in the
> > Debian fs or set up fstab to mount them.  I am assuming that when VBox
> > dynamically allocates memory for the Windows system, it will only be able
> > to write to /dev/sda, which will use up like half the drive. That's why I
> > wanted to force the Windows install on to /dev/sdb4.
> >
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> >>    1. Re: Using a dedicated partition for VBox install (Charles Burton)
> >>    2. Re: Using a dedicated partition for VBox install
> >>       (Philipp Giddings)
> >>    3. Re: meeting this week (Larry Dunn)
> >>    4. Re: meeting this week (dennisjperkins at comcast.net)
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> >> I've seen this done in the past with VirtualBox but more generally with
> >> ESX
> >> or KVM.  Can I ask why you're doing this?  I know it may not seem
> >> relevant,
> >> but if it's for performance reasons you might find that the VDI is faster
> >> because it caches writes in memory before commit allowing you better and
> >> more consistent numbers.
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> >> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 13:03:31 -0700
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> >> Unplug the Debian drive, install windows directly to the other drive then
> >> plug back in the Debian and update grub to make windows bootable.
> >> At least that is how I did it on my laptop that has two drive only I had
> >> Linux on both.
> >> Hope this helps
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> >> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 13:30:05 -0700
> >> From: Larry Dunn <larry at toaboyt.com>
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> >> I'll be there, at least to add thanks to Griz.
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> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:28 AM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
> >> wrote:
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> >> > Hey all, don't forget this is our last meeting. (Shoot, I started to
> >> > update the web site but I
> >> > haven't finished yet.)
> >> >
> >> > My week is imploding so I may not make it. But anyone who does, please
> >> > pass on our thanks to GRIZ
> >> > and his coworkers for hosting us so well for so long.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> > Dave
> >> >
> >> > Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> >> > > Does anyone want to talk about home automation at the meeting this
> >> > week?  We
> >> > > don't seem to have a speaker and I'm starting to look into the
> >> subject.
> >> > Maybe
> >> > > someone has automated their home or has some ideas.  I just ordered a
> >> > Razberry
> >> > > for my Raspberry Pi to let me talk to Z-Wave devices.  I'm going to
> >> test
> >> > > Domoticz with it.
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> >> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:01:34 +0000 (UTC)
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> >> Ok. Just so it's clear to people, I'm not doing a presentation about home
> >> automation. That would be nice, but I'm just getting started. I'm still
> >> puzzling things out and maybe others have some experience with this and can
> >> offer suggestions, or they are just curious and want to learn a bit about
> >> it.
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> >> Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 1:30:05 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [clue] meeting this week
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> >> I'll be there, at least to add thanks to Griz.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:28 AM, David L. Anselmi < anselmi at anselmi.us >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hey all, don't forget this is our last meeting. (Shoot, I started to
> >> update the web site but I
> >> haven't finished yet.)
> >>
> >> My week is imploding so I may not make it. But anyone who does, please
> >> pass on our thanks to GRIZ
> >> and his coworkers for hosting us so well for so long.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Dave
> >>
> >> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> >> > Does anyone want to talk about home automation at the meeting this
> >> week? We
> >> > don't seem to have a speaker and I'm starting to look into the subject.
> >> Maybe
> >> > someone has automated their home or has some ideas. I just ordered a
> >> Razberry
> >> > for my Raspberry Pi to let me talk to Z-Wave devices. I'm going to test
> >> > Domoticz with it.
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