[ale] mint 13 vm running out of storage space

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Jim,

The host computer intentionally doesn't have java on it for security reasons.  So I cannot run eclipse that way.

I gave the vm 4 GB of ram and 4 cpu's in order to hopefully run it at a decent speed.  All I need the android emulator to do is run fast enough to test and document procedures and take screen shots.  It doesn't have to run at live speed.

I was about to get it working, then I ran into this disk space problem.  The emulator won't boot.  I have about 4 hours invested in configuring this vm, so the redoing it route represents a substantial degree of pain.  I may try to delete the swap space and annex some of that digital real estate.

You would think you could just click a button in virtualbox and change the hard drive limits.

Sincerely,

Ron



Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>I would try run the android emulator native on the hardware. Emulator
>in a
>VM sounds painfully slow unless hardware is pretty beefy.
>That said, I would create a new VM and start over with better size
>disks
>and do manual partitioning. It would be faster that resizing a drive
>and
>file system.
>On Oct 13, 2013 4:59 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
>atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get an Android emulator working in a mint 13 vm and a
>number
>> of different things are driving me nuts.
>>
>> I'll put the storage problem here and other problems in other
>threads.
>>
>> I'm working on a mint 13 vm.  The HDD is a virtualbox 10 GB
>dynamically
>> expandable vdi file as shown here.  The vm has 4 gb of ram and 4
>cpu's.
>>
>>
>https://dl.dropboxusercontent.**com/u/9879631/vmstorage1.png<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9879631/vmstorage1.png>
>>
>> Unbeknown to me, when I installed mint, it allocated 4 GB to swap
>space.
>>  So, the file system is limited to 6 gb and is now completely full,
>such
>> that any new procedures I try to run are failing.
>>
>>
>https://dl.dropboxusercontent.**com/u/9879631/vmstorage2.png<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9879631/vmstorage2.png>
>>
>> So, I need a way to increase the size of the VDI file and then a way
>to
>> increase the size of the file system that mint sees.
>>
>> I could delete the swap partitions in the existing drive, replace
>them
>> with a smaller swap file, and then resize the ext4 partition with
>gparted.
>>  But, that really seems like the long way around the block.
>>
>> Anyone know an easier way to fix this?
>>
>> Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
>>
>> I'm going for a walk at the park and a dose of highly fattening, but
>> therapeutic, food at Wendy's.  8-(
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>



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