Why VMware is using sooo much space???

debiso · #1 February 1st, 2008, 08:40 AM

Hi!

I have a win XP VM in Leopard that is set to a max of 20gb. It was set to grow as needed. It is now taking up almost 30gb. I tried to shrink it, but it can't because it thinks there is a snapshot. I have never created a snapshot and the option to delete it is grayed out. Any suggestions on how to get this space back?

Thanks!
Joe

**Giaguara** · #2 February 1st, 2008, 11:36 AM

Shrink a disk is inside the guest, XP: open VMware Tools by double-clicking on the taskbar icon, go to the Shrink tab, select the partition to shrink, and press Shrink.

This shrinks it.

debiso · #3 February 1st, 2008, 11:46 AM

I tried that... I get the following window. None of the conditions it states are true.

Joe

**Giaguara** · #4 February 1st, 2008, 12:02 PM

Did you create this virtual machine with Fusion, or was it done with Converter, Workstation etc? :-/

debiso · #5 February 1st, 2008, 12:48 PM

It was created with Fusion. Been fine fora while and all of a sudden I notices it was big.

**Giaguara** · #6 February 1st, 2008, 01:23 PM

Hm.
Upgrade Fusion to 1.1.1 (72241), and then upgrade VMware Tools after. I've seen similar when the Tools were out of date (and some earlier betas had that glitch).

debiso · #7 February 1st, 2008, 01:35 PM

OK... I am already running 1.1.1 (72241). I did the upgrade of the vmware tools, but still no joy!

**Giaguara** · #8 February 1st, 2008, 04:38 PM

In youruserfolder/Documents/Virtual Machines folder, select the VM, right click/control click "show package contents". Is there one or more vmdk files?

Was by any chance "allocate all space now" selected when creating this VM?