Hdd is currently running out of memory

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by JoachimK, Apr 8, 2010.

  1. JoachimK

    JoachimK Bit poster

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    Hi there,
    I have a big problem with my VM. I have Parallels Desktop 4.0 on Snow Leopard and Win XP as guest OS.
    Since today, my HDD is currently running out of memory. I deleted a lot of files and started my VM, after the Error message. I had 17 gigs of free memory. Then I tried to start defragmentation, and after a view seconds, the Error message came again, and said there were only 400 mbs of free space.
    When I deleted some more files, the VM ran again, but when I started a program, the Error occurred again.
    Please Help, I have no idea what is going wrong...
    Thanks a lot!
    Jogi
     
  2. Shaddam IV

    Shaddam IV Forum Maven

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    Hi Joachim,

    are you on a fixed size or an expanding VM disk? Or is this a BootCamp partition? From 17 GB to 400 MB in a few seconds sounds scary... What happens if you disconnect the VM from the net (and isolate it from the Mac by turning off all sharing options) - does the hard disk still fill up that quickly?
     

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