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Hello, im running ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and im trying to make a win xp vbox and when it gets to the part where is is creating the virtual ...
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- 02-11-2010 #1Just Joined!
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VirtualBox gets hung up making virtual HD
Hello, im running ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and im trying to make a win xp vbox and when it gets to the part where is is creating the virtual hard drive (30GB in my case) it just stays at 0%. I left it running last night and went to bed, in the morning it was still at 0%. Now iv just tryd it again and its been sitting for about 2 hours now and still at 0%. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
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Do you have 30 GB of free HD space?
Do you have any other vbox vdi's which you have created?
- 02-12-2010 #3Linux Guru
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I haven't used VBox on Ubuntu 9.10 (9.04 and CentOS 5.4 are what I use) and I haven't had any such problems creating virtual discs up to 80 GB in size. Kill the virtualbox process and boot to a rescue/live cd/dvd and run bad_blocks on your drive to be sure that there aren't any bad sectors on the disc. Marginal disc sectors can cause this sort of problem.
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Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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