The file system upon which '<pathname>' resides is critically low on free space.

[steffi2]

I've got 6 gig free on this disk so why is it giving me this warning?

Version 3.0.2 (232708)

[admin]

Generally the mac will need around 10% free space. The extra space you have available would be used for things such as the Mac page file, sleep image, the vmem file needs to be used and will generally be around the size of the amount of ram you've dedicated to the virtual machine and if you want to suspend the virtual machine it will create a vmss file which can be large in size. Basically you're going to want to free up some more space on the mac. You could look into removing some snapshots from the virtual machine or even moving the entire virtual machine bundle to an external hard drive with some more space.

[zak1729]

I have a very similar problem. My virtual machine is taking up a whopping 160gb! Why is that? I've deleted all snapshots still taking this amount of space. Can i delete anything from this virtual machine? Because of it's size, i can't now start XP without getting the message that where my vm resides is critcally low.

Is there anything i can do to drop the size of the virtual machine? Noting that i can't start the vm to use the 'shrink' option in tools.

Thanks

[admin]

If you have Fusion 2.0.6 or up then gathering the support bundle will tell us all we need to know.

Can you go to Fusion's Help menu and choose "Collect Support Information". That will create a file on your mac desktop which you can attach to your response.

Chances are there are snapshot files in the virtual machine bundle that aren't showing in the UI. Another thing you could check is in the snapshot viewer, there's a checkbox on the bottom left that says show only my snapshots. Uncheck that to show snapshots taken by autoprotect too.

What resources do you have? Any external hard drives?

If you have an external hard drive how much free space is on it.

What's the name of the drive.

It would be best to gather the support information as described above but with the external hard drive connected.

[WoodyZ]

To help figure out what is what the best way to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help > Collect Support Information and then attach the .tgz file it created on your Desktop.

Also a file listing of the target Virtual Machine Package would be helpful and to provide it in a preferred format use the directions below.

1. In a Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal), type the following without the quotes, including the trailing space, however do not press Enter yet and note that the following contains lowercase L's, not ones: "ls -lAF "

2. In Fusion's Virtual Machine Library (VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Window > Virtual Machine Library), ctrl-click the target Virtual Machine and then select "Show in Finder".

3. Drag and drop the target Virtual Machine onto the Terminal and this will populate the fully qualified pathname of the Virtual Machine.

4. Next type the following without quotes, including leading space, then press Enter: " > ~/Desktop/filelist.txt"

Example of the full command line in Terminal:

ls -lAF /Users/${USER}/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows XP.vmwarevm  > ~/Desktop/filelist.txt

5. Next attach the filelist.txt file and the .tgz file that were created on the Desktop to a reply post.

[zak1729]

Please find attached the file you wanted. Hope it helps. If worse comes to worse, i might just have re-install the whole vm. Would be an absolute pain, but it's always an option isn't it?

[zak1729]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply. I've done what you suggested. Please find

attached the files you requested.

[continuum]

wow - your VM has 105 snapshots.

No wonder that is uses much more disk space then you would expect ...

Are you sure you need all of this snapshots ???




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[zak1729]

I have that many?! I clicked on "show all snapshots", and deleted evryone of them. Do they not overwrite? I think i know why that is happening. I have my vm in a shared folder, which looks like having "read & write" enabled but no deleting. Cos i remember, everytime i would quit vmware fusion, a message would pop up telling me to manually delete some vmss file (the suspended file). Is there any way of getting rid of these 105 snapshots? They don't appear in the UI.

And thanks for having a look at the files i attached.

[continuum]

you may have Autoprotect enabled ?

if the GUI does not show them you could use vmware-vdiskmanager to consolidate the snapshots.

That only works with recent versions ... not sure if your version has the -r option that can handle partial chains ?

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