Hi, I am running parallels (v4) on Mac OsX with a windows xp guest OS. The windows guest OS was a clone from a different parallel's vm. After the clone, I wiped out a bunch of programs that were not required any longer. Despite deleting ~20GB of data, the PVM file still remains at 25GB. I have tried the Image tool with trying to compress the HDD file without success. Didn't create any visible results. I defraged the guest OS and then re-ran the compression option within the Image Tool and it actually made the HDD file BIGGER! (by over 1GB!) Are there any other suggestions? thanks
RE: Can't shink size of PVM file of guest OS as mentioned previously, the image tool didn't do jack, and in fact made things worse. I found a post after a lot of digging where someone mentioned you can compact the OS from within the guest OS itself. So I ran a compactor utility in program files\parallels\compression or somewhere around there and it went through a few phases and knocked my 26GB file down to 5.9GB. hopefully that helps someone else some pain in the future........
