I have a fellow Delphi programmer on my Team who is using a MacBook Pro with iOS 10.0 for Delphi development. He is using Parallels and he installs Windows 10 onto a Parallels VM and then installs Delphi 10 Enterprise onto this VM and uses this for development.

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I have a fellow Delphi programmer on my Team who is using a MacBook Pro with iOS 10.0 for Delphi development. He is using Parallels and he installs Windows 10 onto a Parallels VM and then installs Delphi 10 Enterprise onto this VM and uses this for development.

He has done this for the previous release of Delphi Berlin Enterprise without issue. He installed this version from the ISO disk and has tried to do the same thing again with Delphi Berlin Release 2 only to find the installer is refusing to install onto the VM and is telling him that he has -1 bytes of space left when he actually has over 90Gb space left.

This is a glaring issue and we are wondering if :

1. Anyone else has encountered this and if there is a solution/work around
2. If Team B / Marco Cantu is aware of this problem. I went to a show in Manchester(UK) for XE7 and saw Marco Cantù using a Mac Book Pro for development. So, Marco, if you are reading this, have you had any experience of this.

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  1. David HeffernanJanuary 11, 2017 at 8:45 AM

    Installer notes say "If the drive containing the folder specified in your TEMP environment variable is low on space, the installer might halt with an error message noting the shortage. If this occurs, assign your TEMP variable to a folder on a drive with more disk space, then re-run the installation." Perhaps it's the drive with temp that's the problem.

    Those notes are somewhat bogus though. The TMP variable takes precedence over TEMP.

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  2. David SchwartzJanuary 11, 2017 at 8:49 AM

    I use VMWare and I find the estimates of free disk space are all over the map. I've run into this on several different releases. I had to increase the size of my virtual disk to the absurd size of 120GB in order to install XE7 into a VM with Windows 7. In fact, I cannot install more than three Delphi releases into W7 VMs or it complains there's not enough free space to do the install, even though there's really more than enough. But I've got a VM with Win XP that's only 65GB and I have six different Delphi versions installed!

    On a related note, I made a copy of a clean Win 7 VM and upgraded it to Win 10, and ran into lots of strange issues. The biggest problem is that Win 10 doesn't manage the displays the same way as Win 7 -- it seems to scale everything on a fixed pixel resolution layout rather than leaving the scaling fixed and changing the pixel resolution. This is a problem on a retina display, and also if you're using an attached 4K display because it's nearly impossible for me to read the tiny fonts it produces. There's probably a setting for this ... haven't looked very hard yet b/c I don't use it.

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  3. John KouraklisJanuary 11, 2017 at 10:45 AM

    Parallels has a feature to adjust the hard disk size. It is called "Reclaim space" and it is under settings for each VM. Maybe it will solve the problem.

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  4. David HeffernanJanuary 11, 2017 at 11:00 AM

    The installer should let you override and go on regardless to deal with just such an eventuality

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  5. David MillingtonJanuary 11, 2017 at 11:27 AM

    I use Berlin on Parallels, and haven't run into that issue at all. I have found that disk space can behave oddly though. In the past, I have had VM images get corrupted and be unable to be resized - I'd suggest resizing (after a backup :)) even by a gig or so, to check that the VM's space is truly functioning correctly.

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  6. Stéphane WierzbickiJanuary 11, 2017 at 12:12 PM

    I'm using Berlin on Parallels and I haven't run into that issue.

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  7. Mike MargerumJanuary 11, 2017 at 5:54 PM

    Installed Berlin fine on a similarly sized vm

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