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jiapj
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How to decrease the VM size?

I download a VM from my company's website. The size is about 2G (only two file , .vmx, .vmdk) and VISTA is installed on it.

Then I use VMware workstation 6.5 to open the .vmx file and power on the VM, the .vmdk file become about 6G.

After I install some Adobe product (PS, AI, DW) , the size becomes to 16G. I check the C:\Windows folder and it's about 10G,

I think it's unreasonable. How could one 2G disk will grow up so fast. I want to share my VM to other people, but now the size is 16G,

Could anyone give some advise to decrease the VM's size?

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Welcome to the forums!

There are some reasons why the disk file may grow, an expanding swap file for example...It could grow as large as it was configured, even if it was starting small.

You could go and check what the reported disk size is and the used disk space.

If you want to shrink it you can use the VMware Tools shrink function from within the guest.


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