Comments on: Shrink your Windows disk image on VMWare Fusion (Mac)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:11:33 +0000

diskTool became /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager in Fusion 2.0

By: fumi

fumi — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:48:17 +0000

Hello,
I was trying to follow the instruction and in the final step 6 : I couldn’t find the diskTool for VMware in the /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/MacOS” directory.
And cannot run the command “./diskTool ……..”
Any suggestions ??
Thanks.

By: dddan

dddan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:34:54 +0000

if you are using vmware fusion 2.0, the tool is located on /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager

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By: Daimeon

Daimeon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:55:12 +0000

Ummm, easier way…VMware tools installed on the client. There’s this really neat tab that says “Shrink” Highlight the drive you want to compress, then click “prepare to shrink” then it does it all for you.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:11:22 +0000

Could you give an example of what a correct path might be, I’m trying this but I’m getting a file not found:

./diskTool -k 0Users/myusername/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional-SCSI_0-0.vmdk

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:23:40 +0000

Right now I want to throttle you. This article just killed my VM and my Mac.

When I create a VM I always choose a big HD size i.e. 100Gb but don’t let it reserve that space. That way you don’t end up with a machine that one day is capped for disk space (happened to me too many times). Back in the day we created VMs with a 20GB drive thinking that would never get exceeded. Now I build them 100GB. When you disk zero it tries to write the whole f***king 100GB and if you dont have that on the Host then bye bye disk space.

Annyed at you but more at myself for not forseeing it. I fucking hate VM’s somedays.

By: iDork

iDork — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:03:15 +0000

I tried the “manual” procedure in a Windows 2000 Pro VM in VMware 1.1.3 and I got an error running the zeroing utility.
Using the built-in shrinking utility (after defragmenting) I was able to reduce the VM bundle size from 2 704 873 255 bytes to 952 248 277 bytes. I did a “clean” installation of Windows 2000 Pro and then installed WinRAR, eTrend (and updated the signature) and applied SP4 (all from a CD).

By: Eric A. Duncan

Eric A. Duncan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:32:53 +0000

Humm. This doesn’t seem to do anything on mine. I enter the command, and I get the prompt immediately.

I believe this solution is only for dynamic disks, which I regret not creating in the first place. When i converted other laptop to a Virtual Machine disk to use in Fusion (and that was SWEET btw!), I selected the Allocate all space now option – which is suppose to increase performance, but not being dynamic.

Now, I am sitting on a 93 GB vmdk – that only has 23 GB in use.

I’ll try searching a bit more about to find out how to convert it to a dynamic disk. Right now, the only option I have found instructs you to use a Windows machine – which I do not have for a bit. Grrr.