Can't shrink size of PVM file of guest OS

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Rich Bergen

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Hi, I am running parallels (v4) on Mac OsX with a windows xp guest OS. The windows guest OS was a clone from a different parallel's vm. After the clone, I wiped out a bunch of programs that were not required any longer. Despite deleting ~20GB of data, the PVM file still remains at 25GB.

I have tried the Image tool with trying to compress the HDD file without success. Didn't create any visible results.
I defraged the guest OS and then re-ran the compression option within the Image Tool and it actually made the HDD file BIGGER! (by over 1GB!)

Are there any other suggestions?

thanks
 
RE: Can't shink size of PVM file of guest OS

as mentioned previously, the image tool didn't do jack, and in fact made things worse. I found a post after a lot of digging where someone mentioned you can compact the OS from within the guest OS itself. So I ran a compactor utility in program files\parallels\compression or somewhere around there and it went through a few phases and knocked my 26GB file down to 5.9GB.

hopefully that helps someone else some pain in the future........
 
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