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Asked: 2018-01-24 01:42:27 +0800 CST

Downloading Windows 10 virtual machine always fails

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I want to download a virtual image of Windows 10 but each time I do it it fails as can be seen on this screenshot:

image shown in download list marked Failed

My guess is that my tmp folder is too small. What can I do to be able to download it properly ?

The output of df -h /tmp̀ is:

mike@mike-thinks:~$ df -h /tmp
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3        19G   14G  3,5G  80% /
windows-10

1 Answers

  1. wget is a good program to use to download large files from websites that have a habit of timing out before the download is completed, because it has an option to resume downloads if they are interrupted without losing the part of the file that has already been downloaded.

    Open the terminal and type:

    cd ~/Downloads/  
wget -c https://az792536.vo.msecnd.net/vms/VMBuild_20150916/VirtualBox/IE10/IE10.Win7.VirtualBox.zip

    The incomplete part of the download will be saved in the current directory ( /home/your-username/Downloads ) until the download is finished.

    The -c option of wget will automatically continue the download from the same place that it was paused if the download is interrupted. Even if the download is stopped completely, changing directories with cd to the same directory where the download was started the first time, and running wget -c https://az792536.vo.msecnd.net/vms/VMBuild_20150916/VirtualBox/IE10/IE10.Win7.VirtualBox.zip again will resume the uncompleted download from the same place where it left off.

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