My Parallels Compressor in build 3150 stops at "Prepare to compact disk" and just uses 100% CPU in WinXP and the fans start blaring. I'm trying to make my WinXP hdd image actually use the 5.88GB it reports inside of windows instead of the 15.63GB it uses in OS X, kind of ridiculous how it got that big. I haven't moved any files back and forth, I simply use WinXP to develop in Visual Studio 2005 and I have removed many windows components that I do not need to accomplish this task. I am trying to regain my hard drive space as the Compressor says is possible, but it does not work, if there is another way say by cloning the image to a new one and then telling the VM to boot from that please enlighten me, but this issue with the Compressor sounds like a bug and I will be submitting it to the beta e-mail address. Otherwise parallels has been awesome and well worth the money as it means I can have one machine to do it all and I've since sent my desktop home with my parents while I just keep my MacBook here at college. I'm running 10.4.9 Build 8P2127 but the compressor didn't work in 10.4.8 either, and WinXP is fully updated. Thank you for the great product and listening to your community and please help me regain this lost hard drive space.
So far same deal, and might I add that this actually *increases* the space used by the VM's hdd file.
Still the same issue, just goes forever and doesn't do anything, still taking up 8-10 gigs more than it's supposed to, even *with* a pagefile. If there is a way to copy this to another virtual hdd possibly via cloning or the like, I'd like to know.
