Free Disk Space

I’m having a small problem with my Parallels set-up. I continue to get the message pasted below even though I’ve cleaned up my hard drive. Any suggestions you might have would be appreciated. There is PLENTY of space on my hard drive, so I'm thinking there's a configuration issue.

Only 492 MB of free disk space remains in the /Users/KEITH file system. Guest operating system is unable to run until at least 512 MB free disk is available. Please free some disk space. Click OK if you cleared enough disk space or click Cancel to shutdown the Virtual Machine.

 

Start your vm + windows. Go to Action and select "Run parallels compressor" and follow the instructions.....it will clean up your virtual disk

 

Thanks for the response. Unfortunatley, that error message is preventing me from starting the VM, so I am unable to enable the compressor feature. That said, I do believe I may tried that a few days ago and it did not help.

 

Go to applications in the map "parallels". There you find "parallels image tools". With this tool you can increase your virtual hd.

Greetings

 

Hello,

the point is that at the start Parallels Desktop creates a .mem file which size equals to the RAM, allocated to this VM. In your case its size is 512 Mb and there is not enough space on your HD to create it.
Could you please open Applications->Utilities->Disc Utility, pick put your Macintosh HD and make a screenshot? And attach them here please.

Best regards,
Alicia.

 

.mem file size resolved?

Hi Alicia,

were you able to resolve the .mem file size problem? I get the same message as kcottrell only that it complains about 0MB space in the user file system and aborts launch of vm.

Thanks, joerg

 

Hello,

Joerg Niewoehner, please check my last response here and if it is possible provide me with requested information.

Best regards,
Alicia.

 

Hi Alicia,

can't upload at the moment (os x leopard issue) so I am posting some output from disc utility hoping that this is of use to you. (apologies for it being in German).

Ta, j


Mount-Point: / Kapazität: 85 GB (91.268.055.040 Byte)
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Verfügbar: 32,1 GB (34.437.042.176 Byte)
Eigentümer aktiviert: Ja Belegt: 52,9 GB (56.831.012.864 Byte)
Anzahl der Ordner: 126.830 Anzahl der Dateien: 697.440

Name : Macintosh HD
Typ : Volume

Medien-Identifikation : disk0s2
Mount-Point : /
Dateisystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Verbindungs-Bus : Serial-ATA-2
Gerätebaum : /PCI0@0/SATA@1F,2/PRT2@2/PMP@0/@0:2
Beschreibbar : Ja
Univ. eindeutige Identifizierung : CF6E8746-9B32-3FD9-826B-E8D4492895EC
Kapazität : 85 GB (91.268.055.040 Byte)
Frei : 32,1 GB (34.437.148.672 Byte)
Belegt : 52,9 GB (56.830.906.368 Byte)
Anzahl der Dateien : 697.440
Anzahl der Ordner : 126.830
Eigentümer aktiviert : Ja
Eigentümer ausschaltbar : Ja
Zugriffsrechte reparierbar : Ja
Überprüfbar : Ja
Reparierbar : Ja
Formatierbar : Ja
Startfähig : Ja
Journaling wird unterstützt : Ja
Journaling : Ja
Mediennummer : 0
Partitionsnummer : 2

 

Joerg Niewoehner, how much RAM is allocated to your VM?

Best regards,
Alicia.

 

Have you tried running a good system cleaner like Onyx? If I recall correctly system jobs are cron'd to around 2 AM in the morning so they usually don't get run... This might clean some files up to let you in, as you clearly have available space.

I wonder if this is a re-iteration of a problem I had in the past, which was resolved with Parallels custom-building something for me so I didn't have to wait till a future release...

 

Can I do the samething on a BootCamp partition ????

 

I have allocated the 604 RAM that parallels recommends to me. Could it have something to do with problems with the leopards rights management?

Thanks, Joerg

 

Hi -- I am having the same problem as the people in this thread, unable to start the VM because of there supposedly not being enough space. In this thread Alicia asks for snapshot of HD, which I have but cannot figure out how to attach. Any resolution of this problem?

Thanks,
Ken

 

Please check that you have enough space on Mac OS side
atlease 1 gb + VM memory size

 

John,

Thanks for the response. According to "get info" on Macintosh HD, my hard drive has "capacity: 148.61 GB; available: 1.71 GB; used 146.89 on disk." Clearly the disk is too full and i'll have to get rid of stuff (lots of photos), but I would think parallels would still work as I do exceed the 1gb + VM memory size (512MB). In any event, I don't think the amount of used and available space on the Mac hard drive has changed much if at all since June, and parallels was working fine until this week (when i was leaving town i shut down the VM, closed parallels, and shut down the Mac; the problem arose when I returned and restarted Mac and parallels, but cannot start the VM).

Thanks,
Ken

 

What amount of memory is allocated for VM? I see that disk is near capacity
If you have undo disk remember that additional space required for writing changes
BTW install 10.5.4 if you didn't install it yet, 10.5.4 resolved many bugs with memory in Mac OS

 

Hard-disk 'GB' and memory 'GB' are not the same unit.

HD sizes are displayed as GB for base-10 gigabytes, and that's what they are really: 1 gigabyte == 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes = 1,000,000,000 bytes, just as well as a gigahertz is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 hertz.

Memory sizes often displayed too as MB or GB are base-2 MB or base-2 GB, also named mebibytes and gibibytes (well that's new for this century, yes - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix, before that both kind of MB and GB were confused at best).

There, 1 MiB is 1024 x 1024 bytes and 1 GiB is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Parallels asks for 1 GB + VM memory size (512 MB): that's really GiB and MiB here, so 1 GiB == 1024 MiB, plus 512 MiB for VM, that makes 1,536 MiB or 1,610,612,736 bytes. Which in hard disk GB (gigabytes) is 1.61 GB. You only have 1.71 left which means you're playing to the limits as close as 0.1 (hard-disk) GB (100,000,000 bytes).

The least concurrent activity of anything else and you're out of disk space. Free up at the very least 5 GB on your hard-disk to get safe. 10 GB free wouldn't be luxury though.

 

Oliver, I have to make correction
Mac OS displays free space correctly I mean in terms 1024x1024
please just check df - h

 

thanks for all this. I need to remove some files from the hard drive (burn movies to dvd), will do so and see if it works. Thanks, Ken

 

Not enough free space

I got also the message,

Only 499 MB of free disk space remains in the /Users/ file system. Guest operating system is unable to run until at least 512 MB free disk is available. Please free some disk space.
Click OK if you cleared enough disk space or click Cancel to shutdown the Virtual Machine.

What can I do? I am not able to start vm

thanks for your help

Johannes