Image file increases 1-2 GB when used.

hgr

Junior Member
Hi.

Each time, I shut down my VM, running windows xp, the disk image size is increased by 1-2 GB, without installing new software on the VM OS or creating much data.

I have setup the system so data is not saved in the VM but through the shared folders to an external disk.

It started out as s 5GB image and it is now 16GB and it just grows and grows in size.
I don't know if that is the reason but it also gets more and more slow.

If I compact the image it only removes 6MB of disk, so thats nothing.

what can I do about this?
 
Do you have SmartGuard feature enabled?

Also, please, create a problem report from running VM (Help->Report a problem) and write report ID here.
 
Hi.

Smartguard is not part of paralles workstation. It is Parallels Desktop for mac as I see it.
 
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