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On Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:15:49 BST Adam Carter wrote: |
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> Some time back i moved from vmware to virtualbox, and am currently |
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> wondering if there are some old vmware files i can remove. Virtualbox uses |
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> the old vmware disk files, so first i checked via atime and lsof. |
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> Why does atime not show all the files that lsof shows were open? |
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They are snapshots and unless saved I would think they are removed when you |
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shut down VBox. |
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> Steps were; |
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> 1. start vm |
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> 2. create and save dummy file in vm |
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> 3. run lsof on vm PID |
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> 4. shut down mv |
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> 5. run find to see which files were accessed |
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> |
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> # lsof -p 2299 | grep 'VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64' |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 42u REG 259,2 2453 10095159 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 44u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094024 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s001.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 45u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094071 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s002.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 46u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094011 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s003.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 47u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094108 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s004.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 48u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094076 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s005.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 49u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094127 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s006.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 50u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094050 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s007.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 51u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094087 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s008.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 52u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094031 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s009.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 53u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094102 |
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> /home/adam/VIRTUALS/Win-10-x64/Windows 7 x64-s010.vmdk |
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> VirtualBo 2299 adam 54u REG 259,2 2146762752 10094021 |
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> <snip> |
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> |
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> # find VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/ -atime -1 -type f |
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> VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Win10-vbox.vbox |
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> VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Logs/VBox.log |
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> VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Logs/VBox.log.1 |
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> VIRTUALS/Win10-vbox/Win10-vbox.vbox-prev |
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> # |
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Incidentally, I can't start VMs when the gentoo host is running kernel |
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4.19.57. I get an error about "Failed to attach the network LUN |
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(VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)." Kernel 4.19.52 works fine. |
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Are you getting any such problems? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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