your order would do the opposite of what you wanted to acchieve !
Do it like this instead:
1. empty trashbin in the guest - delete all temporary files in the guest - run a defragmentation inside the guest
2. shrink
3. defrag on the host
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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay
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