I am running Mac OS X with a single Windows XP VM. The HD space for the VM is set to 64gb and it is currently at 50gb. The PVM file for this VM is showing a size of 147gb. This seems way off. I am running out of disk space on my Mac and am wondering if I can recover some of this 147gb.
Just click 'compress' from the 'virtual machine' menu, when your VM is not running. It may take some time depending on your HDD's speed. Do this every once in a while - with only a small difference between VM and phsyical size the compression is done within a few minutes.
No Luck Thanks for the reply. When I compress it shows that the VM will be reduced from 50.0 gb to 50.0 gb. The size of the PVM file is still at 147 gb.
This indeed is a little bit weird ... so let's take some research: Right click on the pvm file with the VM not running and chose 'show package content'. Now you see what's inside the pvm container. Normally the only large files are those with *.hdd. These are the virtual hard disks containing your data. I assume the HDDs are 50 GB actually, but maybe you have snapshots of your VM. Those files are stored inside the 'snapshot' folder and may explain the size differences. You can delete unused snapshots with 'manage snapshots' from the 'virtual machine menu'. Maybe you configured your PD 7 to periodically take snapshots. If so, you find the settings to change in configure/options/backup. Does this help?
parallels.log Thanks... I think I found the culprit. The parallels.log file is 91 GB! Any idea how that has grown to such a huge size? I'm assuming I can purge the contents without causing any problems... true? Thanks
hmmm, I think so. But the big question here is why that log file has grown to this enormous size. Have a look at this thread: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=110491 In case of doubt contact the support...
