Comments on: VirtualBox – Shrink your VDI images. Image size = Space used up inside VM.

By: techspalace

techspalace — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:14:09 +0000

and which version of vbox are we talking about ?

-Regards,
techspalace.blogspot.com (not only Ubuntu blog)

By: Majed Sahli

Majed Sahli — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:22:08 +0000

Yes

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:13:14 +0000

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By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:19:40 +0000

Duear Majed Sahli,
sorry if i make such a dumb question, but it’s my first time:
the sDelete utility should be downloaded and run into the virtual machine?

Thanks

By: Orlando

Orlando — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:45:21 +0000

I got problems running nullfile 1.02.exe

at some stage the process stop and this message appears

Runtime error 101 at…..

and nothing happens…. thae dummy file is not erased.

Any comments?

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By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:35:55 +0000

It worked wonderfully for me!!!

HOST: Ubuntu 8.04
GUEST: Windows Xp
VirtualBox: 3.04 r50677

I was annoyed by my virtual OS taking 24GB (the maximum space of my dynamic expanding storage disk ) when the real OS disk usage was about 8GB…

Now it is 8GB again… amazing.

I hope it won’t grow again otherwise I will run the procedure once in a while.

Thank you very much,
Cheers

By: Majed Sahli

Majed Sahli — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:42 +0000

For Windows Guests.. You can download SDelete utility from Microsoft to zero unused space with the option -c from here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx

Then you can use the following command from the Host OS..

VBoxManage modifyhd –compact

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:21:03 +0000

In your screenshot on the right hand side you have something monitoring your system and putting it on the desktop. What program is it and have you made any changes to the config file? If so, can you post that as well?

Thanks!!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:53:34 +0000

Apparently, using the clonehd command will shrink your vdi when it copies it, so that should be the simplest workaround out there.

By: John Bäckstrand

John Bäckstrand — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:09:45 +0000

Here is some related discussion with a few work-arounds:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=59796#59796

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Top 10 referrers for Q1 2009 « Share Virtual Machines — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:41:47 +0000

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Конвертируем VMware образ в VirtualBox | Журнал веб разработчика — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:56:24 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:05:03 +0000

FYI, this method no longer works in VirtualBox 2.1.2 (possibly 2.1.0 also), because of changes to VBoxManage. It did work in 2.0.6.

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