Hi, 

 

unraid 6.3.5 - i've created a windows 10 vm with a capacity of 230gb on a 240gb SSD. Currently allocated is 225.99gb. Windows reports only 119gb used. However the vm file (vdisk1.img) when looking in the file browser is 247gb in size, and the main window reports only 20kb free on the drive. I think unraid is forcing windows to sleep constantly as a result.

 

Any ideas why this happens and how i fix it? Surely setting a vdisk image size as 230gb should mean exactly that.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

 

 

Appears that the image is reporting its size in GiB (ie: 1k = 1024 bytes), while hard drive capacity is always reported in GB (1k = 1000 bytes), so the net result of your 230GiB allocation is actually equal to 247 GB.  Something that maybe @bonienl can check into.

 

But, you can also do this to have the image only the size that windows actually uses and release the remainder to the cache drive for other purposes.

 

https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/51703-vm-faq/#comment-557606

 

Edited December 16, 20178 yr by Squid

Thanks for the link. Just trying to follow this guide but at the moment I can't even boot into the VM. It goes to sleep before I can RD in.

 

Can I move out the libvert.img file from the system folder temporarily while I boot in? Is there any other way to temporarily free up space?

 

 

9 hours ago, Squid said:

Appears that the image is reporting its size in GiB (ie: 1k = 1024 bytes), while hard drive capacity is always reported in GB (1k = 1000 bytes), so the net result of your 230GiB allocation is actually equal to 247 GB.  Something that maybe @bonienl can check into.

 

But, you can also do this to have the image only the size that windows actually uses and release the remainder to the cache drive for other purposes.

 

https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/51703-vm-faq/#comment-557606

 

 

Legend..... Worked a treat. Thanks.