Comments for Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog

Comment on Accouncing the New BizTalk Message Archiving Pipeline Component by monicauk

monicauk — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:16:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing this great article. Its good to have it.

Comment on How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk by Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:33:56 +0000

Benjy,

You want to use the -remember switch on clonehd.

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Jul

Jul — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:46:06 +0000

Hi All,
I’ve tested on 2008 R2, and I’ve also encountered with the “BOOTMGR is missing error”. Just wanted to share how i resolve the issue and the image is working perfectly fine for me. The following steps from http://www.binarywar.com/ resolves my issue:-

1. Put in the 2008 R2 installation cd
2. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt
3. Type Bootrec /RebuildBcd, and then press ENTER.
4. If the Bootrec.exe tool runs successfully, it presents you with an installation path of a Windows directory. To add the entry to the BCD store, type Yes. A
5. Next, I booted the server from a Windows 7 ISO and ran the Startup Repair option.
6. After running the startup repair, on the first boot, do let the check disk run. After which, you are able to logon to your Windows 2008 R2 server as per normal with your storage size enlarge.

Hope this helps for those with 2008 R2. :)

Comment on Moving Directories in a SVN Repository using Tortoise SVN by Erwan

Erwan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:02:15 +0000

Exactly what I needed, thanks

Comment on How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk by Benjy

Benjy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:33:20 +0000

Hi Nick,
Very useful post. I have a slightly tangential question. What do you do about differencing disks? In VPC I could have a base workdisk (say with VS installed) and then a diff disk (with BTS and SQL) and still use the base to create a number of other diff disks (and in fact use the diff disk itself as a base). I can go to 3 levels with this. Virtual Box doesnt have this kind of functionality. I can take a snapshot, but I cant just export that particular snapshot (or a base + a number of snapshots) into a single package and use that. I have to keep cloning the machine and installing particular software on the clone to mimic what we have in VPC.

benjy

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Boyan Boychev

Boyan Boychev — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:09:04 +0000

Hi all,

If your root partition is lvm type and you are using LVM try this out:
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Use LiveCD with dd and fdisk utilities:
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1) dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb # /dev/hda – old disk with smaller size, /dev/hdb – new disk with bigger size
2) fdisk -u /dev/hdb
3) Steps from 2) to 6) (incl.) described here – http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/lvm-partition-resizing-666683/#post3281556
4) Shutdown the Virtual machine and remove the old disk and the LiveCD from the virtual CDROM

After the shutdown, boot the system normally (only with the new disk and without the LiveCD):
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5) pvdisplay -v # Checks the PV name (e.g. /dev/hda2)
6) pvresize –verbose /dev/hda2
7) vgdisplay -v # Checks the Free PE (e.g. 384)
8) lvextend -l+384 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
9) resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
10) Наздраве!
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Tested with VM:
CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
kernel-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5
lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5_4.2

Don’t do that on production systems but better create a new partition with fdisk and a new PV, extend the existing VG and LV after that (see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/lvm-partition-resizing-666683/#post3281556).

Be sure that you have a backup!!!

Best Regards,

Boyan Boychev
Bulgaria

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Nick Heppleston

Nick Heppleston — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:39:23 +0000

Paul,

Many thanks for the feedback on the OpenSolaris host.

Cheers, Nick.

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:17:17 +0000

Excellent post, Nick. Just an FYI, I’m running openSolaris as the host with multiple Windows VMs and this works fine with that configuration as well.

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Gnana

Gnana — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:31:57 +0000

Beautiful! Thank you. Just one addition, when started for the first time windows does a disk scan….

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Ion Freeman

Ion Freeman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:38:26 +0000

Actually, they didn’t really turn out to be issues at all. I copied over hda1 then hda2 — they didn’t overlap.
Shutting down gparted took far longer than I had expected, with many message list