[haiku-development] Re: Maximum VMWare image size
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 16:47:10 +0200
On 09/05/2014 16:35, Marcus Overhagen wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> While I was building out the new Readline packages yesterday, I hit
>> the problem where my 4 GB VMWare image for x86_64 ran out of disk
>
>> Axel originally set the limit back in 2008 [1], and while Haiku hasn't
>> really gotten bigger over time, hard disk space has. I suppose we
>
> I wrote the original vmdkheader tool in January 2007.
>
> see
> http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/src/tools/vmdkheader/vmdkheader.cpp?id=dea33357ec7eb010b05dd35fa8ee9bcd964857f1
>
> Before, you couldn't create vmdk files directly but had to use an
> additional tool convert them, that varied with the build platform,
> and didn't work for me.
>
> At that time, the haiku image was 100MB and copied once during the build.
>
> I set the limit to 2GB to prevent unwanted problems.
> Setting the limit up to 2TB should be possible.
>
> However, when using larger files you may want to use sparse files.
> The current vmdk file is of type monolithicFlat (=good for a 100MB ;)
Hmm yeah, not everyone has 160GB free just for building an image.
I don't even have 1/10 of that atm.
François.
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