virtualbox

First time booting Windows 8.1 in VB 7.2: black screen VirtualBox 7.2.14 Host: Linux Mint 22.3, 12 GB RAM allocated to it Guest: Windows 8.1, 4 GB RAM allocated to it I just installed Virtualbox and I am trying to boot up a Windows 8.1 virtual machine. I am using the folder structure that I...

So, if I create VM with 50gb dynamic drives, and only use 20gb, why does enabling encryption permenantly expand the .VHD file to 50gb? This is a win10 guest on win10 host. So, even if I decrypt the VDI file, it stays at 50gb. If I compact the file, it still stays at 50gb. Any ideas?

Background My workstation serves as a VirtualBox host for several Linux desktop VMs. The workstation has a Samsung 970 Pro as its boot device, with two Samsung 850 EVOs as a RAID 0 scratch drive. I have an external drive (two 1TB mechanicals in RAID 1) connected to the host which exposes its...

Ok, first of all, I really don't like the idea of a 'subscription'. I'm very much of the opinion I buy the software, it's my damn software. That said, I've been using VirtualBox for a very long time, due to storing my VDIs on external thuderbolt/USB3 drives, and being able to transport my main...