#Idefrag license file mac os x
In VMware Fusion 6.0.4 with Mac OS X 10.9.4 as the host, Mac OS X 10.10 as the guest, and VMware Tools installed in the guest OS, of course, you can shrink the virtual disk at once with the following command issued in the command line of the guest OS: I had tried vmware-tools-cli disk shrinkonly alone in Fusion 5.0.3 and obtained almost no shrinkage so the effectiveness of plain shrink is really good news. Altogether, I got a good 60 GB back! I discovered this just after I upgraded to Fusion 6.0.0 so I don't know if it'll work as well in Fusion 5. I also tried vmware-tools-cli disk shrinkonly after plain shrink and found virtually no additional improvement.
Subsequent searching in the VMware Community for vmware-tools- cli disk shrinkonly brought me here. And that's without needing to become root. One of them even shrank close to two thirds, at least when used in conjunction with sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 sudo rm -f /var/vm/sleepimage at least once. If you have to restore a properly backed up Virtual Machine that is not as current at least you'll have a working Virtual Machine and current User Data to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine Backup of the Virtual Machine fails.Īlso have a look at: Best Practices for virtual machine backup (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628)įWIW, I just stumbled on sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Tools/ vmware-tools-cli disk shrink / in a MacInTouch posting as an alternative to vmware-tools-cli disk shrinkonly for shrinking Mac OS X VM's and tried it with remarkable results on Mac OS X 10.5 Server, 10.6 Server, 10.7 and 10.8 VM's. Then keep the User Data that is stored within the Virtual Machine backed up off of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis so as to always have a current User Data Backup. At a minimum I would exclude Virtual Machines from Time Machine and with the Virtual Machines shutdown, not suspended, and VMware Fusion closed then manually copy the Virtual Machines Package(s) to an alternate location, preferably on to a different physical hard disk. Also backing up Virtual Machines via Time Machine is disk/time intensive and wastes a tremendous amount of space for something that may be corrupt and worthless come time to restore it. * It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring Virtual Machines under all circumstances/conditions. In a Terminal from within the OS X Guest OS use the following command to prep for shrinking:Īfter the prompt returns shutdown, not suspend, the Virtual Machine.įrom a Terminal on the OS X Host use the following command to shrink the virtual hard disk.Įxample: /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -k /Users/WKZ/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.8.vmwarevm/Virtual\ Disk.vmdk
First make sure you have a proper * backup of the Virtual Machine.
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