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Deleting a virtual machine posted: Sep 24, 2007 12:06 PM

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sarimoo
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Sep 24, 2007
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

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

1. Sep 24, 2007 12:10 PM in response to: sarimoo
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rcardona2k
5,202 posts since
Oct 20, 2005
Yes, it's that easy so long as you have not moved your virtual hard disk to a different location.

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

2. Sep 24, 2007 12:14 PM in response to: rcardona2k
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etung
11,094 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
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

3. Sep 24, 2007 12:17 PM in response to: etung
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rcardona2k
5,202 posts since
Oct 20, 2005
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

4. Sep 24, 2007 12:24 PM in response to: rcardona2k
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etung
11,094 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
Ow! My sympathies, that must have sucked.

Re: Deleting a virtual machine

5. Sep 24, 2007 1:28 PM in response to: rcardona2k
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bgertzfield
1,120 posts since
Sep 7, 2005
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

6. Oct 4, 2008 5:08 PM in response to: bgertzfield
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JohnZonie
53 posts since
Dec 5, 2007

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.

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Re: Deleting a virtual machine

7. Oct 4, 2008 5:17 PM in response to: JohnZonie
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etung
11,094 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
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

8. Oct 4, 2008 5:20 PM in response to: etung
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JohnZonie
53 posts since
Dec 5, 2007
Thanks. Sometimes the easiest approach escapes me :(

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