Eddie's Tech Notes

Resouces the instruction that I am following GPartd tutorial My notes on the steps Step A: Format the USB stick as required. Boot GPartd. Select the USB stick. If there is a key icon next to any partitions of the stick, unmount the USB stick from either the Linux system or GPartd. Select Partition, then Create new partition. Use the default DOS-favor of partition table. Create the first FAT32 partition of size 1-2GB, with label usb-live at the front. Confirm and make the change before you can right click, select "Manage flag" and make it bootable. Use the remaining space to create a extended partition. From within create the ext4 partition with label usb-installed, and then linux-swap. Note the order is important. The ext4 partition will then move to partition 6 rather than partition 5 if you reverse the order. Step B Straightforward Step C Make sure you detach all the other disks of your PC before booting using the USB. If you come across error when usi...

Convert format: VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vmdk --format VMDK Resize vdi: VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB   Set harddisk uuid: vboxmanage internalcommands sethduuid "Windows 8.1 Pro.vdi" f8acb710-46c9-4d77-b7d3-52a1845d06c7

Open VirtualBox and identify the name of the virtual machine that you want to work on. Go to the VirtualBox executable page (In Windows, it is usually C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox). Run the following command to stop the VM to sync its clock with the host. VBoxManage setextradata "My Virtual Machine" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1 Use the following command to set the time offset between the host and the guest. A positive value will set the time of the virtual machine ahead of the host. BoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --biossystemtimeoffset Reference