Virtual HD size setup

[prollin]

Hi,

It would be nice if during the install process it was possible to specify the size of the virtual hard drive as a percentage of the real hard drive capacity. I think it would make more sense and the end user wouldn't have to deal with the "real" numbers... (setting the actual size in MB/GB could be an "advanced" option).

What do you think ?

My 2 cents. Keep up the good work !

- pr

 

[tgrogan]

Maybe close to realistic in the context of older guest OSs, but vista will kill that possibility. Guest OSs need what they need regardless of your host memory. Maybe if Parallels also did a pop-up that says 'don't complain to us about performance if you choose %', they could do the simple division of two numbers for you.

 

[prollin]

I am talking about the hard drive size, not the memory. It is just a convenience thing but for the user lambda, a percentage for the virtual HD size would make more sense IMHO.

- pr

 

[tgrogan]

Well, ignoring some of my off-topic reply, the concept is the same for hard disk size. The percentage of your particular hard disk bears no relationship to the size required by any guest, and any plans you might have to use your own hard disk. You have to get your hands a little dirty and read enough to know what your guest needs. Operating systems and distrobutions of them usually express their requirements in absolute numbers - not in relation to your particular hard disk. Allowing you to take a simplistic % for either memory or disk space would only lead to support problems for both the host and guest OSs. Do the math with one unknown variable and see that installation would be a crap shoot from the perspective of both OSs. The other obvious point is - How would you arrive at this %? Well, you would take the size of your disk, how much of it you thought you would use before allocating space for a VM, and arrive at a % for the VM. Sounds like more work to input a % than an absolute number - and a whole safer to use an absolute number.