I guess your question is that why the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button is disabled for your VM. According to https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/12/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-6BB29187-F47...
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I guess your question is that why the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button is disabled for your VM. According to https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/12/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-6BB29187-F47F-41D1-AD92-1754036DACD9.html#GUID-6BB29187-F47F-41D1-AD92-1754036DACD9, the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button can perform two functions: 1. For Windows VM, if you delete data inside the VM, then shut down the VM, the VM cannot release the disk space occupied by the deleted data. So you need to manually click the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button to have the VM release that disk space. The "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button is always enabled for powered-off Windows VM 2. Fo all VM (Linux/Mac/Windows VM), if your previously executed snapshot operations on the VM causes any unconsolidated snapshot files left, clicking the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button can consolidate these snapshot files. For Linux/Mac VM, if the unconsolidated snapshot files exists, the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button will be enabled, if the unconsolidated snapshot files do NOT exist, the button will be disabled. From the above, you can see that the status of the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button depends on the Guest OS type and existence of unconsolidated snapshot files. For your case, I guess your VM is not a Windows VM and there is no unconsolidated snapshot files in you VM bundle, so the "Clean Up Virtual Machine" button is disabled