Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

re: Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

Ron — Tue, 17 May 2005 19:20:50 GMT

cool, thx for the link to the defragger

Dealing with a VHD that grew too large

The Soul of a Virtual Machine — Thu, 19 May 2005 02:05:57 GMT

Q: Lach writes with this question: "I have 2 virtual machines installed, and had them set up as dynamic...

Help reduce painful bloating in your VPC images.

Craig : Geek, IBlogger — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:49:34 GMT

I stumbled upon Guoqiang Wu's post&nbsp;the other day on slimming down the virtual hard disk files for...

re: Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

Mike — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:58:14 GMT

Tried QEMU and its QCOW format? First defrag (and zero-fill free space) as usual, then convert a flat image to QCOW (zlib-compressed).

XP (no sp) in roughly half a gig image file. Still way too large I think, considering the functionality XP provides, but at least better than wasting a gigabyte of host disk space for ... often nothing.

Reduce the size of your VPC

The Sound — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:32:49 GMT

Recently, I had to send out a demo VPC to a coworker.&nbsp; No problem, I simply need to zip up the .VHD...

re: Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

Maritha — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:41:14 GMT

I brought my disk down to 1.8G from 5.8G, this was great. What is the smallest the VHD can be, this still seems a bit big.

re: Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

Deva W. — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:51:08 GMT

Had a 50 Gig (physical size).vhd, (disk set to grow dynamically largest virtual size 130 gig) followed the steps - took nearly 4 1/2 hours, but now the vhd is 17 gig.

re: Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

K. See — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:37:10 GMT

I had a 14 GB vhd I could not shrink using all the methods I could find on the net. The XP defragger would not move some files towards the beginning and prevented the precompact.iso from working to shrink it much. As a last resort I resized the partition to 4 GB and it moved all the data together but it still would not shrink the unallocated space.

After trying everything for 2 days including the Whitney Defragger (I didn't find this blog until after resizing the partion) it still did not shrink. But in reading how it works it occured to me that it was working but could not work on the unpartitioned space. And even after partitioning the precompactor.iso didn't work. You actually need to create some partition with a drive letter for it to work. You can then follow the steps at the top of this blog and it shrank to 4 GB. You can then delete the empty partition and the virtual disk will not expand beyond the partition you have defined yet will allow you to add on. A disk imaging software would have been much faster but I didn't have that available.

re: Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

elecman — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:00:32 GMT

The other choice is using GHOST to image your current VHD disk to a new VHD blank disk, the size is significent drop. You do not need do a dragment first

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I finally gave up this week. My main VPCs were getting pretty slow and I had an real annnoying VPC issue...

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