28 Nov
2020
28 Nov
'20
2:16 a.m.
On 11/27/20 8:47 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
On 2020/11/28 02:27 AM, Edward via tde-users wrote:
Hi Michele,
Thank you for this information. Will keep it in mind. I just checked the
sizes of the boxes created and each of them were only using 1/2 of the
allocated amount of space, but I just expanded them as the hard drive is
large. I could not find anything in the VB settings that would change it
from an expandable box to fixed, once one is created, but this would be
a nice feature.
I'm actually keeping them lean, only using Firefox and Thunderbird.
Haven't used any office-related applications yet.
Ed
Although it's very easy to create a box using GB, VirtualBox (VB) has
more options. One thing I like about VB, is that there is an option to
make the box automatically expand its size on the disk, if needed. As
far as I know, the box size is fixed with GB when it's created. When I
created my boxes with VB, I set it to use 4GB of RAM and 20 or 25 GB for
the box size on the disk.
Hi Edward
if you plan to use an OS in a VB machine regularly, I strongly suggest
you go for fixed size preallocated disks.
Expanding size disks are slower and keep growing over time. Good if
you want to do a quick test of an OS.
But if you use it regularly, the fixed size is recommended.
Regarding speed, try out different options for the storage controller.
I found SAS to be way faster than SCSI or SATA in the past and I see
now there are even newer options.
Cheers
Michele
PS: debian + TDE works like a charm in VB VM :-)