On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:27:53 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> One thing I've noticed is that VMs take a surprisingly small amount of
> disk space. I mean, I give each VM an 8GB virtual disk, but I'm using
> nowhere near 8GB per VM. More like 2GB. Which is still a lot, but it's
> an 80GB disk that's 79% free...

Disk that's not allocated in the VM takes no space - unless it previously 
held deleted files.  That's what the "shrink disk" option does - zeros 
out unused sectors in the VM's disk and removes them from the disk file.

Jim

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