I've had Parallels 4 installed on my new Mac Pro (10.5.8) for about a month now and today I noticed something. Originally I partitioned 300 GB of my 640 GB mac hard drive to use as the Windows XP virtual machine. The .pvm "package" file was originally a little over 300 GB at the time. In the past month I've added VERY little to the virtual hard drive but tonight I happened to notice that the .pvm file was listed as 429 GB. How did it grow to this size? Technically I really only have about 150 GB of data on the 300 GB virtual machine, but what would cause this 129 GB growth? At this rate, I'm not going to have any room left on my hard drive, and I don't know what it's being filled up with. Any suggestions/solutions? Thanks!
When I try to run Compressor, I get an error that says "virtual hard disk(s) cannot be compressed." Any advice? XP PVM grows by 2gb each time the machine comes up.
Compressing of a virtual machine cannot be performed if the virtual machine has the Undo disks option enabled, or if it has snapshots. Compressing is also unavailable for the virtual machines with plain disks. You can check for more information here. There is also a forum thread with nd2accelerate which was about similar trouble: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=92806 nd2accelerate By the way, sorry I must have missed your last question in that thread last time. With virtual machine it is of course better to use the available Parallels tools. But the default Windows system tools, namely defragmentation, would also work the very same way they would on a real machine.
