Parallels 5 and compression issue

[RobinS]

I recently upgraded to Parallels 5. I keep getting the message "Your disk needs to be compressed and will go from 33gb to 14gb". It restarts the VM (XP SP3), on the start-up screen shows compression of disk briefly, I log in, but no compression takes place. About an hour or so later, the same message appears and I seem to go round in circles and compression does not seem to take place at all.

I have also tried switching from Crystal to windowed mode and then manually start Compression, but same issue

My VM stays at 36gb and won't seem to compress

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[hschneider]

Welcome
Would be nice to see this in the FAQ ... or better: if a VM could not be compressed, there should be a hint pointing to the image tool.


Thank you very much,
Harald

 

[Parallels User]

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[j_root]

Parallels Image Tool?

I have Parallels 6 for Mac, where is this Parallels Image Tool?