Wednesday, February 08

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Instant Disk Space

The other problem I had was that the SUSE installation I'm using (available here, more Linux installs here) only had 4GB of disk. 400MB is allocated to swap, leaving 3.6GB for files. A full Linux installation these days uses up... more than 4GB.

A slight problem, and the main reason why I really really needed to have the networking working. But then I decided to try renaming the virtual machine, because it was called "KDE_3.5_on_SUSE_Linux_10", which is a bit of a mouthful. I renamed it to Amelix, because its Linux running on Amelia (the name of my notebook).

Only it didn't work, because it was looking for the old file name. So I took a look at the config file, and lo! It is text. And I could change the name of the file therein, it it did work.

And what's more, it defined the virtual disk as SCSI drive 0:0. So I wondered, what would happen if I cloned the virtual disk file, and edited the config to point SCSI drive 0:1 at the new virtual disk.

The answer: It works. So I can add as many 4GB disks as I want... Until I run out of real disk, anyway.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:17 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 What's even cooler, if you download QEMU for Windows, is that you can create empty virtual disks. Then you can create an additional SCSI disk in the VMX file. Now fdisk and format it. Now you have a brand new disk of whatever size you want it to be. Try it out, it's fun!

Posted by: Eric at Wednesday, February 08 2006 02:24 AM (Tikk+)

2 Hey, it works! Now I have a 20GB disk. But it's virtual IDE instead of virtual SCSI. :p

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 08 2006 04:00 AM (RbYVY)

3 So your notebook is named "Amelia". Is there a computer named "Lina" yet?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, February 08 2006 02:13 PM (pqiW9)

4 And Naga, yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 08 2006 05:00 PM (75UPs)

5 No, no, no. The other one should have been Sylpheel. (And I wonder how many people are picking up on the reference.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, February 08 2006 10:24 PM (pqiW9)

6 You know that Naga and Amelia are sisters, right?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 08 2006 11:55 PM (RbYVY)

7 No, I wasn't aware of that. I haven't watched the movies, since I've been informed they're nothing like as good as the TV series's are. And I didn't actually like either of the two TV series I bought all that much, either. They were OK, I guess, but not what I would consider top drawer. Besides which, it's Amelia and Zelgadis who really make the series for me (to the extent that anything does), and they're not in the movies where Naga appears.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, February 09 2006 12:16 AM (pqiW9)

8 And I had the impression that Naga more resembled Martina than Amelia in terms of temperment -- and I really hated Martina.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, February 09 2006 12:20 AM (pqiW9)

9 No-one likes Martina. :( The first movie is well worth watching. And it gives an insight into why Lina put up with Naga rather than just char-broiling her and going off on her own. I don't think we are ever told directly that Naga and Amelia are sisters. But we are told that Amelia has a big sister who left home and who she hasn't seen in years. And we also find out that Naga's real name is Gracia Ul Naga Seyruun - meaning that she's a princess of the royal family of Seyruun, just like Amelia. Hmm. Apparently it is all explained in the books.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, February 09 2006 01:33 AM (RbYVY)

10 Pixy: "Hey, it works! Now I have a 20GB disk. But it's virtual IDE instead of virtual SCSI. :p" Cool! Have fun with virtual disk stuff. I'm going to play around with QEMU on Windows, see if it works as well as VMware.

Posted by: Eric at Thursday, February 09 2006 02:13 AM (Tikk+)

11 Oh, and there are at least two occasions when Naga and Amelia appear in the same scene - but they don't see each other either time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, February 09 2006 06:53 AM (AZRXO)

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