Hi all,
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 as main operating system.
On Virtualbox machine, i have installed several operating system.
I will explain by an example:
Hard disk size = 100 GB.
4 operating system installed on virtualbox:OS1,OS2,OS3,OS4.
The hard disk size for each installed operating system is 10 GB.

Now, if i want to remove totaly OS2 and OS4, first thing to do is to delete them from my virtualbox, but the problem i think is that i format the two 10 GB (out of 100 GB) to install OS2 and OS4 them on each 10 GB.
So my question is how to remove the partition used for OS2 and for OS4 from my hard disk.
I just used Gpartition but didnt success.
Anyone can advise please?
Cheers

Hi,

if I understand correctly you just want to delete the disk images or vdi files for your virtual machines (these are not real partitions). Is that correct? AFAIK, by default these will be under ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/*/*.vdi

Evo2.

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try posting under linux virtualization you might get absolute answers, but if the partition you're trying to remove you created under virtual box just delete the vdi file as evo2 suggested.

partition created in virtual box is just a virtual partition as well, it won't appear if you use gpartition.

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That migt be the case, but what the OP wrote kind of makes it look like they might be separate VMs. The OP needs to come back and clarify.

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Thanks guys for your quick replies.
If it is enough just to delete the *.vdi will be very good.

thanks again

If they are separate VMs that you created, then they are not on partitions. They use their own separate virtual disks.

If you created one VM in VirtualBox and dual-booted it (just like you would install multiple OSes on a real computer), they they are probably on partitions of the same virtual disk.

I am sorry MTK358, but didn't understand well cause i don't have good experience in these.
"If they are separate VMs that you created" : i am not sure if i am answering correctly but i have installed the OS's on one Oracle VM VirtualBox and all OS's are separated from each other.

"If you created one VM in VirtualBox and dual-booted it" also not sure if i will reply correctly but you mean for example if i we took OSa, then on the same OSa i have installed another operating system OSb, so when i start the system, it will ask me what you want to choose OSa or OSb?

i am sorry man but i am not so familiar with these.

Best regards

Correct.

Correct, just like on a dual-booted physical machine.

This means that what you wanted to do when you posted the thread actually had nothing to do with partitions, instead you want to delete the virtual machines.

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Thanks a lot MTK358.
Now it is clear.

Thanks again for all