Can you shrink the sparse disk image of a Mac OS X guest OS in VMWare Fusion?
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I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to run a virtual Windows 7 machine, and the Microsoft IE compatibility Windows XP virtual machines. In VMWare Tools on the Windows guest OSes, there’s a “Shrink” option that lets you reduce the size of the sparse disk image used by the guest OS, to save hard drive spac…
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Aha — indeed you can, as per this thread on the VMWare discussion boards about this issue, assuming: The file is a sparse disk image, and not pre-allocated. The VM does not have snapshots. In short: Erase free space on the guest OS’s disk from withi…
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