Even doing a V2V to get a smaller disk would require installing another product like VMware vCenter Converter Standalone in the Virtual Machine to create a new Virtual Machine from it with a smaller virtual hard disk.Īs to the the Host loosing 40 GB with the creating of the Windows XP VM it sounds like you chose to pre-allocate the virtual hard disk however if you want expert analysis based on technical facts then. As an example if you added a smaller right-sized disk to image the contents of the original to the smaller disk and then swap the disk out this requires imaging software not a part of the installed OSes. ![]() Just about anything you can do shy of making the virtual partition smaller and thus not allowing a sparse disk to occupy the full capacity (not counting snapshots) will require the use of 3rd party utilities. This means you can only downsize it immediately after creating the Virtual Machine itself and before installing the Guest OS. This doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for, though, because I could anly transfer about 1 or 2GB.Ī virtual hard disk cannot be downsized once it is partitioned. Oh, and one more thing: If I delete a virtual machine, what is going to happen to the disk space left for the VM? Can it be used by Mac OS right away?Īlso, I managed to transfer space which is "not needed" (marked yellow) by WinXP and Win7 to Mac OS. ![]() I think it should be possible to do this without any other software and well, hopefully, it will work somehow. I have read some tutorials on how to fix this, but they said further software is required. Is the amount of RAM reserved for the virtual machines temporarily unusable by Mac OS while the virtual machine is running or is it a permament reservation so that I cannot use the RAM when I only use Mac OS?Ĭan I use the space on a usb-stick for a virtual harddisk? If so, can I even use one virtual harddisk for WinXP and Win7? Let's say, I use a 30GB usb-stick, can I use the 30GB as a virtual harddisk that can be used by both, WinXP and Win7?īy the way, I would really like to get advice on how to fix this problem by only using VMware without any other software I would have to download. What happened here? Besides, I cannot find any data on my MacintoshHD which corresponds to the 40GB I "lost". When I installed Win7, though, it did not go down the 60GB used for Win7. ![]() It just won't get lower than 40GB\60GB.Īpart from that, I noticed something strange: When I installed WinXP and left 40GB for this VM, the amount of space on my MacintoshHD went down 40GB. How do I do that? I seem to be able to increase the amount, though. I tried to decrease the amount of disk space left behind for WinXP and Win7 ('Settings' -> 'Harddisks' -> 'Virtual Harddisk.vmdk') but I was not able to decrease the amount of 40GB (fpr WinXP) \ 60GB (for Win7). I don't need that much of disk space for my virtual machines though. (The OS I am using: Mac OS 10.7.5 (Lion)) The virtual machines both run without any problems except for one: When I installed Windows XP, I had to leave 40GB of disk space to WinXP and when installing Win7, I had to leave 60GB to Win7. Then I installed Windows XP Professional inclusive Service Pack 3 and Windows 7 Ultimate (both in isolated environments) without using bootcamp. Today I installed VMware Fusion 5 on my Macbook and updated it to the newest version. So if you encounter any weird words I used, sorry for that but I couldn't find a way to contact the German support (if specific support exists at all). The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.First of all, I use the German version of VMware Fusion 5. The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away, The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size, On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program. Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective. ![]() WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. It also allows deletion of folders and sub folders to allocate space. This tool gives the user a visual representation of data stored on a drive. Storage management can be a challenge in a variety of situations.
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