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On Saturday, 27 July 2019 10:36:04 BST Adam Carter wrote: |
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> On Saturday, July 27, 2019, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > 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 |
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> > you |
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> > shut down VBox. |
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> Pretty sure they are the vmware disk files and are used by vbox |
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Hmm ... I only have two files being accessed here on a running VBox Windows 7 |
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VM. 'VBox.log' and 'MSWindows7_dyn.vdi' |
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> There were other snapshot files that ive already moved, and as expected it |
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> didn’t cause vbox any problems |
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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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> > Im on 5.2. Did you rebuild the modules for the new kernel? |
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Yes, I did and checked they are loading. I'll check again. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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