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Sunday, April 9. 2006

we both know it was a girl back in bethlehem

some tips to reduce the size of your vmware image, especially thaf of windows images.


  • install xplite on the vmware guest OS. xplite can trim your windows installation significantly. on my windows xp vmware image, using the free version of xplite reclaimed about 1GB of hard disk space. the free version is able to remove unnecessary microsoft installation files. also, you can use xplite to reduce the cache size.

  • shrink your windows image. this can be done by using the vmware tools. after installing vmware tools, right-click on the vmware-tools icon, and select shrink. then shrink the virtual hard disk. ironically, shrinking the disk requires at least 30% free space on the virtual hard disk itself. i managed to reduce the size of my windows virtual disk from 3.1Gb to about 2 Gb+ after shrinking.

  • defrag often. there are two places where you can perform this - one is in the virtual image itself (using the windows defragmenter), and another is on the host OS. on the host OS, just run vmware-vdiskmanager -d [your vmware image]

  • don't keep data files on your vmware images. since i run samba on my gentoo notebook, the microsoft vmware shares files from the host OS.


listening to: the herbaliser - nah'mean nah'm sayin'




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