On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:30 AM, benedict dcunha <sylvan.dcunha at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > 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 > i have new to xen and has setup my first virtual machine > > I have a centos 5.5 xen server working perfect and have installed a virtual > 2008 server and its working fine . > Actually i created the virtual machine in manager installation wizard with > the following option. > in the storage option I selected File (disk Image) > the location /var/lib/xen/images/image.img ( I have about 400gb free in /var > partition) > size i choose 15000 mb > deselect the checkbox ... allocate entire virtual disk now > > since the below warning says > > if you dont allocate the entire disk now , space will be allocated as needed > while the virtual machine is running . > > The 2008 server was installed perfect. and also I did install some software > and c drive showed me 800 mb free > This appears to be the issue. When I install Windows it shows the full size I've specified, not the size of the allocated file. It's somewhat possible, though unlikely, that Windows has used up 15G for the installation. Windows creates a page file and miscellaneous backups. Also, there is some overhead when creating the filesystem. Have you gone into the disk manager and verified that all of the volume is being used? > now I tried to copy 1 gb file to my virtual machine and it said I dont have > space . >