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01-07-2009
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| | Re: Can I copy a 18GB file to a Virtual Machine? Is your VM disk a fixed-size disk or dynamically expanding? NTFS or FAT32 formatted? -- Ryan Sokolowski MVP - Clustering MCT, MCITP x3, MCTS x8, MCSE x2, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP <newscorrespondent@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:tyb9l.15274$Ou7.7567@xxxxxx Quote: > My host is Vista64. I am running Virtual Server with a Windows Server 2008 > Virtual Machine. I have tried serveral times to copy an 18GB file from the > host to the Virtual Machine. I am running the copy task on the virtual > machine that can see a share to the file on the host. Most of the file > gets > copied when the VM hangs. I can do nothing with the vm except turn it off > from VMRCplus. I have tried this three times. > > > Have I hit some limit? > What might I be doing wrong? > How else can I copy this file to the VM. > > Thanks > Tom |
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01-07-2009
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| | Re: Can I copy a 18GB file to a Virtual Machine? The disk is dynamically expanding and still has plenty of space. It is NTFS. Since my post I tried compressing the file and did get it to copy to the vm. I could not get it to expand. I then created a fixed 25GB disk and attached it to the server. I was able to expand the file to that disk. I still can't find anyplace that tells me I can't do what I originally tried. Thanks Tom |
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01-08-2009
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| | Re: Can I copy a 18GB file to a Virtual Machine? The disk is dynamically expanding and still has plenty of space. It is NTFS. Since my post I tried compressing the file and did get it to copy to the vm. I could not get it to expand. I then created a fixed 25GB disk and attached it to the server. I was able to expand the file to that disk. I still can't find anyplace that tells me I can't do what I originally tried. Thanks Tom |
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01-08-2009
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| | Re: Can I copy a 18GB file to a Virtual Machine? I cannot copy the file from the fixed disk to the dynamic disk without getting the same result I got trying to copy directly to the dynamic disk. Tom |
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