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Compact VirtualBox Disk Images #14

Open rogerxu opened 8 years ago

rogerxu commented 8 years ago

How to compress VirtualBox disk image file *.vdi?

rogerxu commented 8 years ago

Compact Virtualbox VDI Image to Save Space « Head in the Web™

rogerxu commented 8 years ago

Linux Guest

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=EMPTY bs=4096k
$ sudo rm -rf EMPTY

Showdown the guest VM

Run VBoxManage modifyhd command with the --compact option

Windows Host:

VBoxManage.exe modifyhd "c:\path\to\thedisk.vdi" --compact