Capturing image on Virtual Box

[marsdenprimary]

Hello! I've been trying to use WDS to capture an image of Windows 7 I have made in Virtual Box on a seperate PC to the server. WDS isn't working because I foolishly only set the Virtual disk to 25Gb. The reason it is a problem, is WDS wants me to save the image to the D: drive before uploading to the WDS server via LAN. I need to know how to do a couple of things to make it work.

 

a) How do I create a virtual drive so that the boot screen picks it up in the virtual machine? Is this possible? I could then save the image to this before it uploads. I just need some extra drive space to do this.

 

b) Is it possible to capture the image from the virtual machine a different way using a different kind of image capture software and then add it to our WDS server for deployment?

 

c) Can I make the virtual disk bigger POST install of Win7, apps etc... or is it set once it's been created in Virtual Box?

 

I hope all this makes sense!

 

Cheers

[Steve21]

Unless you really want to do any of that, you can just map a folder within VB to a local folder (on the pc). Then net use map into it within the pxe without needing to change the settings.

 

Steve

[marsdenprimary]

I'm getting a System error 1222 saying the network is not present or not started now... Any ideas??

[Steve21]

What did you change?

 

Steve

[marsdenprimary]

What did you change?

 

Steve

 

I've not changed anything... it's really bizarre. It let's me connect to the WDS server no problem but the CMD in DOS is throwing this at me now...I might be doing it wrong though.

[Steve21]

Can you screenshot what it's saying? (or type it if you can't screenie), just so many ways to do it not sure what commands you mean

 

Thanks,

Steve

[marsdenprimary]

Can you screenshot what it's saying? (or type it if you can't screenie), just so many ways to do it not sure what commands you mean

 

Thanks,

Steve

 

Sorry for the delay here we go:

[LeMarchand]

I think I made the same mistake some time ago. IIRC I cheated and captured the image with Clonezilla, then used that to establish a VM with a bigger disk. Pretty sure I had to use G-Parted to fiddle with the partitions to expand them. This was with W7, so YMMV.

[marsdenprimary]

This is the route i have gone down for now! It's my own fault for not creating a bigger virtual drive in the first place. You live and learn! Thanks for all the help!!