Tricksy FileVault and Parallels
After hitting a roadblock with Parallels this morning, in which it told me repeatedly that it couldn't allocate memory, I discovered that I was out of disk space. How could this be, thought I? I just added a 500gb drive and have over 100gb free still! 
Then I noticed that inside my home folder, Finder indicated I had a mere 165mb free, whereas Finder in the drive root showed the actual space. Turns out that FileVault, which is a simple sparse image file, doesn't know that t now has a significantly larger playground in which to roam.
So it thinks it is out of space, causing Parallels in turn to think it has no room to create the necessary memory space needed to operate.
The solution will be to (sometime later today), disable FileVault, which puts everything back in a 'normal' drive mode - then recreate the FileVault account to take advantage of the new space.
God, I love technology. Especially at 6am on a Monday.
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- Posted: Jul 28, 2008 by Scott McDaniel
- Tags: filevault, parallels, software, support
- Short URL: http://bit.ly/IkVaK
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