VM Size problem

[jreed47]

Problem:
The free hard drive space on the VM rapidly shrinks, eventually hitting or exceeding the limit set when created (Typically 40 GB). At this point, the VM is unable to log into any accounts and debugging the situation is extremely difficult.

Reproduce:
Unfortunately this problem arose very suddenly and since the VM cannot be debugged, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact cause. I experienced this problem while working on the Wedge in the VM with the modified kernel and I believe it was because I effectively “disabled” some system calls by having them always return -1. This was coupled with the fact that I was running FINS and a server application that infinitely called some of those disabled functions. I believe this caused an overload of the log files and expanded the hard drive space to the maximum.

Solution:
A simple solution is to reload the VM from the ova file. After doing this, I haven’t run into the problem and the hard drive space remains normal.

[jreed47]

Abdallah has experienced this issue without any modification to the wedge, suggesting that it may be a bug with VirtualBox itself. In addition, help posts have been made about this topic with some suggested solutions:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/125115/how-to-solve-gnome-power-manager-installation-problem

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get into that menu by using Ctrl+Alt+F1.