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VMWARE FUSION 7 SHRINK DISK HOW TO
VMWARE FUSION 7 SHRINK DISK FOR MAC

* Run VMWare Fusion’s diskTool command with the shrink option “-k” to compact your virtual drive (*.vmdk). type “cd /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS” * Navigate to the VMWare Fusion tools directory.

Shrink disk image using VMWare’s diskTool.

* From a command prompt navigate to where you saved the above delete tool and write “sdelete -c c:”, which will clear all free disk space * Download Mark Russinovich’s disk erase tool SDelete v1.51+ and place it on the local guest drive (*1).

Zero out unused disk space in guest OS disk image.

* Delete all unused files, empty your trash can, delete your browser cache etc.

Clean up & defrag guest OS disk image from within guest OS.

Start Windows guest OS in VMWare Fusion and login as administrator.

First backup your guest os disk image and other files (just in case something goes wrong) + make sure you have plenty of spare disk space on your harddrive.

VMWARE FUSION 7 SHRINK DISK HOW TO

Finally, do not shrink a disk with snapshots as this is known NOT to work!! Update: See additional recipe at bottom of this post for how to deal with snapshots. Beware of the risk! Remember to backup your disk image before messing with it. Warning: This recipe may/may not work for you. Other Windows guest OS’s like Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, Win2K, XP should work with this recipe as well, although this is untested at this time. I have used the recipe below to successfully save about 50% of disk space for a Windows 2003 R2 guest image on Mac OS 10.5.2 running VMWare Fusion 1.1.1.

VMWARE FUSION 7 SHRINK DISK FOR MAC

Here is a easy (manual) way to shrink a Windows guest image hosted on VMWare Fusion for Mac OS.

It is possible to free up quite a bit of hard disk space by compacting your virtual disks for VMWare.