Transferring maps in a VM

[BroX]

Does anyone else encounter problems transferring maps to a SDHC card (to a Zumo 500) when running MapSource in Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine on a 64-bit Linux host?

The transfer process only gets up to 'Building index files... 49%'. When using a Windows PC it works fine, so the Zumo/SDHC unit is fine.

 

[muppix]

I recently updated my Zumo 550 using Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion under OS-X, seems to have gone OK.

Probably not a lot of use to you, thought I'd throw it out there. Do you have VMWare Tools under Linux? Maybe something to do with the USB device drivers, though I don't know why it would stop at the stage it does. Enough RAM / disk space?

 

[BroX]

There should be enough space, assuming windows uses the virtual disk for temp files. If it uses Linux's temp directory then that could be a limiting factor. I'll look into that! Thanks for the tip.

 

[muppix]

There should be enough space, assuming windows uses the virtual disk for temp files. If it uses Linux's temp directory then that could be a limiting factor. I'll look into that! Thanks for the tip.

It'll use whatever disks have been set up under the VM, not the disks that are part of the host environment. One thing to watch out for (though unlikely) is that Windows may be trying to grow the VMDK (virtual disk) file larger than the host Linux system will allow. This will really only be the case if you're using a FAT file system, most Linux boxes are ext2/ext3. IIRC FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB.

 

[BroX]

Thanks for the comments.

It might have something to do with growing the virtual disk, even though it's on an ext4 fs.