VMware Communities: Message List - Deleting a virtual machine

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

JohnZonie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:20:09 GMT

Thanks. Sometimes the easiest approach escapes me

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

etung — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:15:08 GMT

This is expected - Fusion can't tell if the virtual machine was located on some removable media (and thus might be back at a later point) or if you deleted it. Select the entry in the Virtual Machine Library and press delete to tell Fusion to forget about it.

By popular request, in Fusion 2.0 you can shortcut this. Instead of deleting the virtual machine in the Finder and telling Fusion to forget about it, you can skip the first step and go directly to the second. If Fusion can still find the file, it will ask if you want to delete the virtual machine from the disk or just have Fusion forget about it.

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

JohnZonie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:08:02 GMT

I just tried to delete a VM by Move To Trash in Finder, per the above instruction. I didn't see anything about deleting a VM in the New User Guide, unless I missed it (possible). Now when I start Fusion (2.0 BTW), the list shows the VM with a '?' and a File Not Found error. See attached WM window screen grab.

Is there another place an entry should be removed to delete a VM?

Thanks.

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

bgertzfield — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:28:02 GMT

Welcome back, rcardona! I'm so sorry to hear about your laptop being stolen.

Let us know if there are any Fusion questions with your new laptop!

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

etung — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:24:59 GMT

Ow! My sympathies, that must have sucked.

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

rcardona2k — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:17:43 GMT

Eric - I had my MacBook Pro stolen a while back so I've been making do. I have a new Santa Rosa MBP now so I should be able to contribute again.

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

etung — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:14:52 GMT

sarimoo: Drag it to the trash from the Finder, but yeah. I suggest A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion, which covers this.

Richard: Hey, good to see you back! We missed you, where've you been?

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

rcardona2k — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:10:35 GMT

Yes, it's that easy so long as you have not moved your virtual hard disk to a different location.

Deleting a virtual machine

sarimoo — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:06:51 GMT

Hi again.

I would like to delete one virtual machine from my HD. So I just drag and drop it to my trash and that's it? It releases all the gigabytes it held within?

Sari