Re: A VM snapshot question
If you didn’t install VMWare Tools yet, then choose that option from the VM menu to get them installed. They support folder sharing, copy-and-paste between host and guest, and all that. If you have them installed, then if I remember right you should find the Shrink tab in the Control Panel applet for VMWare Tools. If your machine was booted up in a shrinkable state, you can push a button to commence that process. You should also look in General settings on the Mac to make sure there’s a button for “Clean up now”, while the machine is up, as I believe VMWare have made some changes which mean this is no longer directly exposed in Windows. If you don’t find the applet, then you can do it from the command line. Run the “vmware-toolbox-cmd.exe” tool with parameters “disk shrink c:\”. This should work, no matter what. This is how the process ultimately becomes invoked and is how I do it. For some reason the applet doesn’t even show up on one of my VMs, and this is the workaround. Give that lot a try and see how you get on. You’ll know when it’s worked. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: A VM snapshot question
Yes, do not have it allocated to certain size. But not sure what you meant by You can request a shrink inside Windows with the guest tools, Any clarification appreciated. Thanks. Bill -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 1:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A VM snapshot question Ah, I see, you mean reclaim unused blocks in the VM image itself, not deleting actual data. Yes, you’re right, you must have no snapshots before you can do that. Just select a snapshot with QuickNav off and hit Backspace, and you’ll delete the snapshot. Then reboot the VM, perform any internal housekeeping and defragmenting, and use the shrink process to squeeze the VM down to approximately the used space of the filesystem. This only works if you aren’t using a pre-allocated disk, of course, as in the VM settings for the internal disk. You can request a shrink inside Windows with the guest tools, and then use the General settings in the VM to “Clean up” and you will have some space back on the host Mac. Let me know if you need further help. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A VM snapshot question
Ah, I see, you mean reclaim unused blocks in the VM image itself, not deleting actual data. Yes, you’re right, you must have no snapshots before you can do that. Just select a snapshot with QuickNav off and hit Backspace, and you’ll delete the snapshot. Then reboot the VM, perform any internal housekeeping and defragmenting, and use the shrink process to squeeze the VM down to approximately the used space of the filesystem. This only works if you aren’t using a pre-allocated disk, of course, as in the VM settings for the internal disk. You can request a shrink inside Windows with the guest tools, and then use the General settings in the VM to “Clean up” and you will have some space back on the host Mac. Let me know if you need further help. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: A VM snapshot question
Thanks. I want to reclaim disk space, but as I understand it, you can't do this f you have snapshots enabled, or have an existing snapshot. Yes, the options are in the menus, but they are all grayed out. So can't figure out how to get rid of them. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 5:08 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A VM snapshot question Deleting a snapshot won’t reclaim any disk space, it’ll just roll the snapshot’s contents into your main virtual machine image. Maybe you mean you want to revert the snapshot. Anyway, turn off QuickNav and use the cursor key to highlight the snapshot in the Snapshots view. Then press the backspace key to delete, or use the toolbar button to Restore. There are also menu commands to do either more quickly. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A VM snapshot question
Deleting a snapshot won’t reclaim any disk space, it’ll just roll the snapshot’s contents into your main virtual machine image. Maybe you mean you want to revert the snapshot. Anyway, turn off QuickNav and use the cursor key to highlight the snapshot in the Snapshots view. Then press the backspace key to delete, or use the toolbar button to Restore. There are also menu commands to do either more quickly. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
A VM snapshot question
Hi. I have one snapshot in my VM machine. I want to delete it so I can reclaim the disk space. Only no matter what I do the delete options are grayed out. I have autosnapshot set to off. I have tried both the VM running and the VM closed. Can someone walk me through how to do this? Thanks. Bill -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
