<div dir="ltr"><p>Dear All, </p>
<p>I am sorry for this post if at all i used the wrong forum but I guess someone out there will be there to advise me and help me out and would be really apprecite and be grateful <br>i have new to xen and has setup my first virtual machine </p>
<p>I have a centos 5.5 xen server working perfect and have installed a virtual 2008 server and its working fine . <br>Actually i created the virtual machine in manager installation wizard with the following option. <br>in the storage option I selected File (disk Image) <br>
the location /var/lib/xen/images/image.img ( I have about 400gb free in /var partition) <br>size i choose 15000 mb <br>deselect the checkbox ... allocate entire virtual disk now </p>
<p>since the below warning says </p>
<p>if you dont allocate the entire disk now , space will be allocated as needed while the virtual machine is running . </p>
<p>The 2008 server was installed perfect. and also I did install some software and c drive showed me 800 mb free </p>
<p>now I tried to copy 1 gb file to my virtual machine and it said I dont have space . </p>
<p>Now I was thinking that additional space would be allocated on the fly as the note says above </p>
<p>i am just wondering why its not allocating more space or what would be the ideal way now for allocating more space </p>
<p><br>if I wanna create a new virtual machine choosing the block device( partition option) is the correct way to avoid this problem?? </p>
<p>I actually would like the virtual machine to use as much as it requires as long as there is free space on my local disk </p>
<p>apprecite your kinfd advice and help </p>
<p><br>regards </p>
<div>simon</div>
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