Re: [Qemu-devel] Crash: When Host HDD is full

[Mike Swanson]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 08:19:48 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> Problem 1:
> When Host HDD is full, all guests simply crash. Tried with dynamically
> growing .VMDK hard disk.
>
> It shouldn't happen. For example, both VirtualPC and VirtualBox pause
> all VMs, and gray their displays when something like that happens.

IMO, it's a non-issue; you probably shouldn't be letting your filesystems to 
become full in the first place, much less running VMs on it. Besides, most 
filesystems reserve some space for the superuser, now unless there's a 
cross-platform way to figure out just how much space that is, you'd still be 
getting errors despite having 5~10% of the filesystem technically free.