VM Image Size Growing

[yowmiin]

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Stacey M

Hi all. I would greatly appreciate any comments on the following problem I am experiencing:

I am running Windows XP on PD3.0, I have created a static hard disk space for it (60 GB). After using it for sometime, PD at startup threw me a msg saying that there is not enough hard disk space for PD to run. I checked the image size and it's now at more than 90 GB. I ran one of my previous snapshots and returned to a normal size. The same day I was doing a virus scan check with Kaspersky and PD again stopped and threw me the same msg. I ran my snapshot again, restarted the virus scan with Kaspersky, opened up the Finder on Mac and saw as Kaspersky was scanning, it was eating away my free disk space and saw that the VM image size was growing, all the way until it had exhausted all my free space and PD stopped. Does anybody know what's going on or how to fix this issue?

 

[Hugh Watkins]

You better clone your VM to an external HD and run it from there
then clone the clone as a back up

I would recommend never save your work in Windows only in shared folders which will reduce expansion of the VM

Hugh W

 

[Hugh Watkins]

For house keeping I use

>> Welcome to the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner. It’s a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.
<< http://onecare.live.com/
an excellent Freebie from MS who after all know WinXP sp2 best

AVG has just updated its virus definitions

after the safety scan
I will make a new back up clone because it is the weekend and last week's clone is out of date

Hugh W