Storage requirements for OpenBMC VirtualBox/Ubuntu build

[Lei YU]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Mark Brown <mkbrown32 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I do not see anywhere in your documentation information on
> how much storage should be allocated to the
> /Windows 7 64/VirtualBox/Ubuntu 16.04 .vdi.
> Also, do you know if it is possible to increase the storage of the Ubuntu .vdi
> or does the user have to start over again, creating the .vdi ?

You can create a new volume, attach and format it, then you have extra space.
E.g. I have ubuntu.vdi as the system storage, and extra.vdi mounted at /extra
to put the large data.

>
> ==============================================================================
> Virtualbox reports  Virtual Size: 10.00 GB    Actual Size: 8.12 GB .
>  ==============================================================================
> meta-palmetto        = "master:acff95b917b051a71ca3979793cccfff724a5821"
> Initialising tasks: 100% |###################################################################################| Time: 0:00:31
> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
> WARNING: The free space of /home/mark/openbmc/build/sstate-cache (/dev/sda1) is running low (0.972GB left)
> ERROR: No new tasks can be executed since the disk space monitor action is "STOPTASKS"!
> WARNING: The free space of /home/mark/openbmc/build/tmp (/dev/sda1) is running low (0.972GB left)
> ERROR: No new tasks can be executed since the disk space monitor action is "STOPTASKS"!
> WARNING: The free space of /home/mark/openbmc/build/downloads (/dev/sda1) is running low (0.972GB left)
> ERROR: No new tasks can be executed since the disk space monitor action is "STOPTASKS"!
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 102 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.
> Summary: There were 3 WARNING messages shown.
> Summary: There were 3 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
>  ==============================================================================
>
> Mark Brown